WebbiaPub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.36253/jopt-13193
Bernard Peter Olanga Daipan, Inocencio E. BUOT JR., N. Pampolina
{"title":"Evaluating the species distribution patterns of the genus Saurauia Willd. in the Philippines using geospatial analysis","authors":"Bernard Peter Olanga Daipan, Inocencio E. BUOT JR., N. Pampolina","doi":"10.36253/jopt-13193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-13193","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the species distribution patterns of endemic and threatened species is very useful for conservation planning and actions. However, research on the distribution of many important and often overlooked species in the country, such as the Saurauia, is extremely limited. This paper provided an overview of the distribution patterns of Saurauia species across the Philippine archipelago based solely on the existing digital checklist of vascular plants. Specifically, the study produced distribution maps of the 56 endemic Saurauia species and determined their climatic distribution ranges. The methods involved geospatial and geoprocessing analysis in a geographic information system (GIS) environment. The findings showed that 29 Saurauia species are currently distributed in a single province, whereas seven (7) species have only been recorded in a certain region. Furthermore, 35 species was found to have a single type of climate. The Saurauia species identified in this paper that have only a single provincial or regional distribution record and are restricted to a single type of climate are recommended for conservation because they are mostly likely to be affected by environmental and climatic changes. Finally, the information and data derived in this paper could serve as a baseline for assessing conservation status, habitat modelling studies, species-level conservation planning, and understanding climate change impacts.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47769152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
WebbiaPub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.36253/jopt-13400
K. Hemmings
{"title":"Ancient woodland indicator species: can old herbarium specimens supplement recent records to inform ecological management?","authors":"K. Hemmings","doi":"10.36253/jopt-13400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-13400","url":null,"abstract":"Old herbarium specimens have become increasingly well-recognised as a rich source of ecological baseline data. For long-continuity plant communities, such as ancient woodland, these records may be particularly important for present day ecological management. To evaluate this potential, searches for pre-1950 Ancient Woodland Indicator (AWI) herbarium specimens collected in East Gloucestershire, UK, were conducted using digital open access sources and the physical Royal Agricultural University herbarium. In total 305 specimens were retrieved from twelve herbaria, with small regional collections being particularly important sources. The earliest specimen dated to 1834. There was a significant association between old specimen availability and year of collection, due to a peak in the late-1800s and early-1900s. Over half of the AWI species for the region were represented, although some taxonomic bias was evident. To determine if old AWI specimens contributed any new location records, 246 unique specimens with detailed georeferences were mapped and compared to the locations of 1950-1999 and 2000-2021 biological records. One third of the pre-1950 specimens had not been recorded in the same locality since collection of the old specimen, indicating either a gap in recent records or floristic change. However, length of time since specimen collection was not a predictor of a 1950-2000 or 2000-2021 record in the same locality. Overall, it is highly recommended that policy-makers, land managers, and field surveyors consult old AWI herbarium records for ancient woodland identification, management, and restoration.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44378339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
WebbiaPub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.36253/jopt-13461
R. Docot, Carl Bryan M. Domingo, Cecilia B. Moran, L.M. Camangeg, A. Poulsen
{"title":"Wurfbainia rubrofasciata (Zingiberaceae), a new species from Palawan, Philippines","authors":"R. Docot, Carl Bryan M. Domingo, Cecilia B. Moran, L.M. Camangeg, A. Poulsen","doi":"10.36253/jopt-13461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-13461","url":null,"abstract":"A ginger species collected in Palawan, Philippines was initially thought to be Wurfbainia palawanensis but differs by the dark brown fertile bracts and red spinose fruits. This species is also morphologically similar to the continental Asian Wurfbainia microcarpa but can be distinguished from this by the entire ligule, petiolate lamina, congested rachis, and presence of red stripes at the base of the labellum. Therefore, we here describe Wurfbainia rubrofasciata providing colour plates, data on phenology, distribution, habitat, and a provisional conservation assessment. A key to five species of Wurfbainia in the Philippines is provided and we discuss the likely closest relatives of Wurfbainia palawanensis.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44939907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
WebbiaPub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.36253/jopt-13570
Sinjini Mondal, S. Moktan
{"title":"Micro-morphological characters in Polypodiaceae and its taxonomic significance","authors":"Sinjini Mondal, S. Moktan","doi":"10.36253/jopt-13570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-13570","url":null,"abstract":"The present study insights into the interrelationships and taxonomic segregation of some Polypodiaceous fern taxa based on leaf architecture and foliar micro-morphology. Twenty-seven fern species were examined and valuable qualitative and quantitative data were obtained to generate UPGMA dendrogram. A dichotomous key differentiating the taxa was prepared. Results reveal that even though species have overlapping characters, certain specific traits prove taxonomically valuable. The results proved that traits like leaf shape, higher order leaf venation, stomatal and epidermal features are indeed important diagnostic characters and hence can be used for the identification of fern species in their immature stage or even in absence of sori. These data sets often combined with other morphological as well molecular data would contribute to fern phylogenetic study particularly of the large and complex family Polypodiaceae.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44340070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
WebbiaPub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.36253/jopt-13963
P. Delprete
{"title":"Monograph of tribe Sipaneeae (Rubiaceae, Ixoroideae). A Neotropical group with its center of diversity on the Guiana Shield","authors":"P. Delprete","doi":"10.36253/jopt-13963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-13963","url":null,"abstract":"The tribe Sipaneeae (subfamily Ixoroideae) includes the genera Chalepophyllum (3 spp.), Dendrosipanea (3 spp.), Limnosipanea (3 spp.), Maguireothamnus (3 spp.), Neblinathamnus (2 spp.), Neobertiera (5 spp.), Pteridocalyx (1 sp.), Sipanea (17 spp.), Sipaneopsis (8 spp.), and Steyermarkia (1 sp.), for a total of 44 species. This tribe has its center of diversity on the Guiana Shield (northern South America), where 9 of the 10 genera occur. Only Sipanea and Limnosipanea are also present on the Brazilian Shield and the Orinoquía Region with a total of 4 species, while Steyermarkia, Sipanea and Limnosipanea are present in Central America with one species each. The genera Sipaneopsis, Chalepophyllum, and Dendrosipanea are endemic to white sand areas of the Amazon Basin. The habit in the tribe Sipaneeae ranges from herbs (terrestrial, amphibian or rarely aquatic), subshrubs, shrubs to treelets. Within the tribe, Chalepophyllum, Dendrosipanea, Neobertiera, Pteridocalyx and Sipanea are heterostylous, while the other genera are homostylous. Several recent articles have been dedicated to the description of new species in this tribe, and only Limnosipanea spruceana var. macrantha is newly described here. In the present work 21 names are newly typified; a list of these names is present at the end of the taxonomic treatment. For all the taxa of this tribe, full synonymy, typification, description, ecological observations, geographic distribution, illustrations, IUCN conservation assessment, and cited specimens are provided.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45174220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
WebbiaPub Date : 2022-04-20DOI: 10.36253/jopt-12256
Wong Sin Yeng, P. Boyce
{"title":"Studies on Schismatoglottideae (Araceae) of Borneo LXXIII - Schismatoglottis auyongii [Calyptrata Clade], a new species for the Penrissen Range, Sarawak","authors":"Wong Sin Yeng, P. Boyce","doi":"10.36253/jopt-12256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-12256","url":null,"abstract":"Schismatoglottis auyongii is described and illustrated as a new clumping species of the Schismatoglottis Calyptrata clade from wet slopes in hill forest on the extremely hard Paleogene sandstones of the Penrissen Range, SW Sarawak.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44150371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
WebbiaPub Date : 2022-04-20DOI: 10.36253/jopt-12167
Wong Sin Yeng, P. Boyce, Adeline Y.M. Hii
{"title":"Studies on Schismatoglottideae (Araceae) of Borneo LXVIII: Bucephalandra adei, a new species from Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo","authors":"Wong Sin Yeng, P. Boyce, Adeline Y.M. Hii","doi":"10.36253/jopt-12167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-12167","url":null,"abstract":"Bucephalandra adei S.Y.Wong, P.C.Boyce & A.Y.M.Hii, is described as new additional the six already known species in which the spadix appendix exceeds the length of the fertile portion of the spadix. All are endemic to Borneo. An key to identification for the seven species and a distribution map is provided. Recognition of B. adei takes Bucephalandra to 32 described species.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46659031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
WebbiaPub Date : 2022-04-20DOI: 10.36253/jopt-12014
I. Turner, Ananda Kumar
{"title":"Prain’s Erycibe (Convolvulaceae) types","authors":"I. Turner, Ananda Kumar","doi":"10.36253/jopt-12014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-12014","url":null,"abstract":"The typification of 14 species names authored by Prain in Erycibe (Convolvulaceae) is reviewed. The species range from Myanmar to Taiwan and New Guinea, with most from the Malay Peninsula. For 12 of the names, lectotypes in CAL were designated by Hoogland without seeing the specimens. Either through failure to find the designated specimen, or location of more than one specimen in the designated herbarium, we make 12 new lectotype designations, nine of which are at the second stage.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43072189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
WebbiaPub Date : 2022-04-20DOI: 10.36253/jopt-12176
Wong Sin Yeng, P. Boyce
{"title":"Schismatoglottideae of Borneo LXXII – A new species of Schottarum (Araceae) from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo","authors":"Wong Sin Yeng, P. Boyce","doi":"10.36253/jopt-12176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-12176","url":null,"abstract":"Schottarum inconspicuum S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce, is described as a new species from the easten part of the Rejang Basin, taking the genus to three species. All are illustrated from living plants. A distribution map is provided.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44800218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
WebbiaPub Date : 2022-04-20DOI: 10.36253/jopt-13038
R. M. Baldini, G. Cristofolini, C. Aedo
{"title":"The extant herbaria from the Sixteenth Century: a synopsis","authors":"R. M. Baldini, G. Cristofolini, C. Aedo","doi":"10.36253/jopt-13038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/jopt-13038","url":null,"abstract":"A synthetic synopsis of the herbaria of the 16th century is provided. The list is in chronological order and resumes the general information on the earliest herbaria from the XVI century facilitating the access by the scientific community to this important source of historical information. Fifteen herbaria are listed, of which the oldest date back to the first half of the 16th century. Nine originated in Italy, three in Switzerland, two in Germany and one in France. For each herbarium, data are provided on chronology, geographical origin, format and extent, current place of conservation, and information on cataloguing and digital accessibility when available.","PeriodicalId":39391,"journal":{"name":"Webbia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42288486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}