PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.659.2.1
R. A. Hernández-Cárdenas, Alejandra Flores-Argüelles, A. Espejo-Serna, A. R. López-Ferrari, Juan Carlos CARRANZA-RODRÍGUEZ, Sofía Ana Lucrecia LARA-GODÍNEZ
{"title":"Tillandsia tequilana (Tillandsioideae; Bromeliaceae), a new saxicolous species from Jalisco, Mexico","authors":"R. A. Hernández-Cárdenas, Alejandra Flores-Argüelles, A. Espejo-Serna, A. R. López-Ferrari, Juan Carlos CARRANZA-RODRÍGUEZ, Sofía Ana Lucrecia LARA-GODÍNEZ","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.659.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.659.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Tillandsia tequilana, a new species from the state of Jalisco, Mexico, is described and illustrated. The proposed species is compared to T. aguascalientensis, T. moronesensis, and T. schusteri, taxa with some morphological similarities. Tillandsia tequilana differs from these species in the shape and size of the leaf sheath, spikes and floral bracts, in the shape of the sepals, and also in the flowering time. Images and a distribution map of the new species are included.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"41 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141660336","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}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.659.2.4
R. Mokni, G. Domina
{"title":"Taxonomic, nomenclatural, and distribution notes on Thymus dreatensis (Nepetoideae, Lamiaceae) and related taxa endemic to North Africa","authors":"R. Mokni, G. Domina","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.659.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.659.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Thymus dreatensis (Lamiaceae), a rare species, was considered to be strictly endemic to Algeria, until it was recently discovered on the eastern Kroumirian mountains of Tunisia. The species is one of the very rare and few taxa of Thymus sect. Serpyllum subsect. Insulares and is characterized mainly by its small habit with reptant stems, broadly ovate to elliptical, entire leaf blade, and a capitate to oblong inflorescence with entire bracts, which are different from the leaves. The name is here lectotypified with a specimen housed in the Montpellier University Herbarium. The population is here reported for the first time as a new floristic record for Tunisia. Moreover, geographical distribution and habitat of T. dreatensis is given. In addition, the nomenclature of three species of Thymus that are morphologically close to T. dreatensis and endemic to North Africa, is discussed: T. atlanticus is lectotypified with a specimen housed in Herb. K; T. guyonii is neotypified with a specimen housed in Herb. P; T. pallescens is lectotypified with the same detailed plate on which the name was published.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"83 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141662617","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}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.6
Pinky Rani Biswas, A. Dutta
{"title":"A new species of Ramaria subg. Laeticolora from Meghalaya, India","authors":"Pinky Rani Biswas, A. Dutta","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of coralloid fungus from Meghalaya, India, Ramaria pseudovinosimaculans, belonging to the genus Ramaria subg. Laeticolora, is proposed based on taxonomy and phylogenetic studies of the internal transcribed spacer of the ribosomal DNA (nrITS) region. The morphological characteristics, together with molecular studies, confirmed that the species is a novel species. The species is characterized by a small to medium-sized, radially branched, white to yellowish white basidiomata with a base colour of light brown to violet red and greyish yellow elsewhere that turns brownish orange when bruised, a cylindrical to bacilliform basidiospore, basally clamped four-spored basidia, and clamped hyphae. An inclusive description, illustration, and comparison with morphologically similar and related species are provided.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"30 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141663815","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}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.1
S. Rana, Sanjay K. Singh
{"title":"Fusarium kamalianum, a new species of Fusarium from India from ornamental Chamaedorea seifrizii","authors":"S. Rana, Sanjay K. Singh","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"A novel species, Fusarium kamalianum, belonging to the Fusarium oxysporum species complex (FOSC), is established to accommodate a fungal pathogen that was isolated from infected Chamaedorea seifrizii (Bamboo palm). The identification of this pathogenic strain was determined based on the cultural features, asexual-morphs, and phylogenetic analysis based on translation elongation factor 1-alpha (tef-1α), RNA polymerase second largest subunit (rpb2), internal transcribed spacer region (ITS), 28S large subunit (LSU), and β-tubulin (tub2) sequence data. The detailed taxonomic descriptions, cultural, microscopic images, and phylogenetic trees are presented for the introduced taxon. The sequencing data of this isolate exhibited substantial distinctness from the previously discovered species of Fusarium and created a unique distinct clade. This is the first study that reports infection in Chamaedorea seifrizii plants caused by Fusarium species.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"19 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141664996","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}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.3
M. V. Soares, Ethiéne Guerra, M. P. Morim, J. Iganci
{"title":"Taxonomic revision of the genus Punjuba (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae)","authors":"M. V. Soares, Ethiéne Guerra, M. P. Morim, J. Iganci","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Punjuba is a Neotropical genus of the mimosoid clade (Leguminosae). The genus was recently restablished and is recognized by presenting shrubs and trees, with lax racemes or spiciform racemes, leaves with 1–3 pairs of pinnae and 2–7 pairs of leaflets in each pinna, thin and lateraly compressed legumes, curved to spiral, and seeds lacking pleurogram. Recent advances on legumes systematics have been producing great challenges on the circumscription of genera, especially on the mimosoid clade. Molecular phylogenetic studies confirm that Punjuba is monophyletic, and a revision of the genus and species circumscriptions are needed. Here we present a taxonomic revision of Punjuba, providing an identification key for all species currently recognized in the genus, morphological descriptions, and distribution maps. We recognize six species in the genus: P. callejasii, P. centiflora, P. killipii, P. lehmannii, P. racemiflora and P. foreroana, being the last one described here as a new species. Abarema josephi is proposed as a new synonym of P. lehmannii. Morphological characters including the inflorescence, indumentum, leaves and leaflets, besides quantitative characters, were applied as diagnostic to recognize the species.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"38 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141663516","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}
{"title":"A novel Mallocybe species (Inocybaceae, Agaricales) discovered in the Longquan Mountain of Southwestern China","authors":"Feng Liu, Chao Liu, XIAO-HANG Chen, ZHENG-YONG Lan, XIU-LAN Xu, YING-GAO Liu, Chun-lin Yang","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Within the genus Mallocybe, new species have been continuously discovered on a global scale, yet only few species have been reported from China. During surveys of macro-fungi diversity and taxonomy in Sichuan Province, China, two samples were collected in the forests dominated by Quercus glauca and identified as a new member of this genus, namely Mallocybe longquanensis. Morphologically, M. longquanensis is distinguished by its small-sized basidioma, light brown to yellowish-brown pileus covered with tomentose-fibrillose, ellipsoidal or ovoid basidiospores, as well as the utriform, clavate to cylindrical cheilocystidia. Multi-gene phylogenetic analysis of ITS, LSU, and rpb2 also revealed that the new taxon forms a distinct lineage within the genus Mallocybe. The detailed morphological features, color photographs, and comparisons with morphological similar taxa are provided.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"33 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141665137","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}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.2
R. Romanov, V. Nikulin, V. S. Vishnyakov, Bukhchuluun Tsegmid, A. Efremov, L. Zhakova, A. Gontcharov
{"title":"Tolypella mongolica (Charophyceae, Characeae): A new dioecious charophyte species from the center of Eurasia and implications for charophyte taxonomy, including the validation of T. porteri and the new combination for T. jwalae","authors":"R. Romanov, V. Nikulin, V. S. Vishnyakov, Bukhchuluun Tsegmid, A. Efremov, L. Zhakova, A. Gontcharov","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"A new dioecious species of Tolypella, T. mongolica sp. nov. from the section Tolypella, was described using an integrative taxonomy. It was found in three distant localities – shallows of a brackish small lake and a channel in the midland steppe in Mongolia and the Altai Mountains, and a small brackish water body in the dry steppe in Southeast Europe. It differs from other species in rbcL and ITS sequences and in distinct complex ornamentation of the oospore surface, varying from sparsely coarsely tuberculate to having the appearance of an aerial view of mountain landscape with acute to mostly sharp edges of elements at probably the ripest stage. Wide intrapopulation variability of expression of this trait, only partly explainable by oospore ripening stage, was found and illustrated for two populations, indicating previous underestimation of this phenomenon in taxonomic research. T. mongolica is richly fertile and appears to be ephemeral as most species of this genus. Only female plants were found in all localities. The absence of male plants could be referred to either their earlier development during the growing season or, less likely, parthenogenesis in this species. The description of the new species suggests taxonomic changes for two dioecious species of charophytes. Tolypella porteri stat. et comb. nov. was validated here. T. jwalae was recognized as a species of Nitella, N. jwalae comb. nov.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"93 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141664242","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}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.7
R. A. Hernández-Cárdenas, Alejandra Flores-Argüelles, A. Espejo-Serna, A. R. López-Ferrari, Andrew Siekkinen
{"title":"Hechtia marabascoensis (Hechtioideae; Bromeliaceae), a novelty from Colima and Jalisco, Mexico","authors":"R. A. Hernández-Cárdenas, Alejandra Flores-Argüelles, A. Espejo-Serna, A. R. López-Ferrari, Andrew Siekkinen","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"Recent botanical explorations carried out in the states of Colima and Jalisco, Mexico, led to the discovery of a novelty of Bromeliaceae: Hechtia marabascoensis which is described and illustrated. The proposed taxon is compared to H. chamelensis, H. pacifica, and H. reticulata, species with the most similarities. A morphological description, images, and a distribution map of the new species are included, as well as an identification key and a list of examined specimens of all Hechtia species known to date from the states of Colima and Jalisco.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"66 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141663354","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}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.8
A. Bakali, A. Susanna
{"title":"Rhaponticoides nuriae (Asteraceae), a stunning new species from Morocco","authors":"A. Bakali, A. Susanna","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"Rhaponticoides nuriae is described as a species new to science. Its affinities within the genus are analyzed and discussed. The new species is obviously very different from the two described species in Morocco and can be easily distinguished from those species by its distinct appendage with a very wide scarious margin and by its longer achenes. According to analyses of sequenced nuclear markers ITS and ETS, the new species cannot be reduced to any of the existing Rhaponticoides species. This may suggest that the species is an early branch separated from the bulk of the genus. The conservation issue is considered since the plants occur in a very cultivated zone. Photographic illustrations of the new plant species and an updated key to the Rhaponticoides species in Morocco are also provided.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"50 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141663120","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}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.5
Felipe Bittencourt, G. Alves-Silva, A. Góes-Neto, E. R. Drechsler-Santos
{"title":"Neomensularia meridionalis sp. nov. (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota), a New Species from South America","authors":"Felipe Bittencourt, G. Alves-Silva, A. Góes-Neto, E. R. Drechsler-Santos","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.659.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"During field surveys in the Atlantic Forest of Southern Brazil, specimens of a poroid and pileate species of Hymenochaetaceae were found and are described as a new species, Neomensularia meridionalis. This species is morphologically and phylogenetically (ITS and nLSU) close to Neomensularia crocitincta, distributed in Central America, Cuba and Jamaica, but can be distinguished by its larger basidiomata, a duplex context featuring a distinct black line, and golden yellow basidiospores. Additionally, an updated identification key for Neomensularia species worldwide is provided.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"44 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141663857","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}