{"title":"Agaricus griseovariegatus: A new record of genus Agaricus for Indian mycobiota from Jammu and Kashmir, India","authors":"Masood Ahamed, Sakshi Saini, Yash Pal Sharma","doi":"10.1002/fedr.202300019","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fedr.202300019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the present communication, a species of <i>Agaricus</i> (<i>A. griseovariegatus</i>) belonging to <i>A</i>. sect. <i>Xanthodermatei</i> has been described from North-western Himalaya of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. This species is humicolous and found on dead decaying leaves of walnut. It is characterized by its appressed olive-gray squamules, broad radial fissures on the pileus, floccose annulus, faintly yellow context, phenolic odor, and bisporic to tetrasporic basidia. This species is reported here as a novel addition to India's macrofungal flora. Its morphology, anatomy, and phylogenetic relationships based on nrITS sequences are all described in detail here.</p>","PeriodicalId":53662,"journal":{"name":"Feddes Repertorium","volume":"135 3","pages":"203-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140078052","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":"First record of Laetiporus xinjiangensis (Laetiporaceae, Polyporales) from India","authors":"Tahir Mehmood, Shiny Singh, Yash Pal Sharma","doi":"10.1002/fedr.202300047","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fedr.202300047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A noteworthy edible <i>Laetiporus</i> was collected during our macrofungal exploration in the Trans-Himalayan district of Kargil, India. It is reported as a new phytogeographical record for India. Detailed morphological description and comparison with other closely related taxa of <i>Laetiporus</i>, as well as a molecular phylogeny, are provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":53662,"journal":{"name":"Feddes Repertorium","volume":"135 3","pages":"197-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140077367","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":"Using leaf micromorphology to characterize Iranian species of Ribes (Grossulariaceae)","authors":"Kosar Rezaee Chamanie, Marzieh Beygom Faghir, Mohammad Mahmoodi, Shahrokh Kazempour Osaloo, Aiuob Moradi","doi":"10.1002/fedr.202300007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fedr.202300007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This electron microscope study investigated the micromorphological characteristics of the leaf epidermis of 5 species (10 populations) of <i>Ribes</i> (Grossulariaceae) in Iran: <i>R. biebersteinii</i>, <i>R. uva-crispa</i>, <i>R. orientale</i>, <i>R. aureum</i>, and <i>R. khorasanicum</i>. Samples were collected and identified, and the similarities between the species were evaluated using information from micromorphological traits of leaf epidermis and multivariate analysis (cluster analysis and principal component analysis). The traits useful for discriminating the species were presence or absence of hairs and glandular trichomes, presence or absence of granular with verrucae on hair surface, position of hairs on epidermal surface, hair location on the leaf (lamina, leaf margin, midrib), stomata shape, wax distribution on stomata, prominence and shape of anticlinal walls and outer periclinal layer, and epicuticular wax sculpturing. An identification key based on these leaf micromorphological characters is provided for <i>Ribes</i> species in Iran. The multivariate analysis of micromorphological traits was efficient for inter- and intra-specific delimitation. The present findings correspond to a large extent with existing classifications.</p>","PeriodicalId":53662,"journal":{"name":"Feddes Repertorium","volume":"135 2","pages":"160-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141292641","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":"Typification and nomenclatural notes on four species of Rhynchosia (Leguminosae, Phaseoleae, Cajaninae)","authors":"Ajay Kumar Mishra, Vijay V. Wagh","doi":"10.1002/fedr.202300036","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fedr.202300036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During revisionary work on the genus <i>Rhynchosia</i> Lour. in India, it was observed that four names need to be typified to stabilize their nomenclatural use. As a result, lectotypes are designated for the four names, namely, <i>Rhynchosia cana</i> (Willd.) DC., <i>R. falconeri</i> Baker, <i>R. filipes</i> Benth., and <i>R. veutina</i> Wight & Arn. The original protologs of these names along with the original herbarium material were evaluated. Nomenclatural remarks discussing the selection of type specimens are given for each name and known isolectotypes are also cited.</p>","PeriodicalId":53662,"journal":{"name":"Feddes Repertorium","volume":"135 3","pages":"214-220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140452284","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}
S. Baasanmunkh, Batlai Oyuntsetseg, Zagarjav Tsegmed, Dariganga Munkhtulga, Nyamjantsan Nyambayar, Long Wang, Hyeok Jae Choi
{"title":"Global conservation assessment and taxonomic notes of Brachanthemum mongolorum Grubov (Asteraceae) endemic to Mongolia","authors":"S. Baasanmunkh, Batlai Oyuntsetseg, Zagarjav Tsegmed, Dariganga Munkhtulga, Nyamjantsan Nyambayar, Long Wang, Hyeok Jae Choi","doi":"10.1002/fedr.202300014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fedr.202300014","url":null,"abstract":"Brachanthemum mongolorum Grubov (Asteraceae) has been previously reported as endemic and narrowly distributed in eastern Mongolia. Since 2017, we have conducted field surveys across the eastern part of this country to gain a better understanding of this species because of the scarcity of herbarium collections deposited at GAT, MW, LE, and UBA. According to ConR package, B. mongolorum have been assessed as Vulnerable based on the extent of occurrence (3337 km2) and the area of occupancy (40 km2) at global level. We also provided a distribution map, photo illustrations, and taxonomic notes of the species in question.","PeriodicalId":53662,"journal":{"name":"Feddes Repertorium","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139837532","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":"Global conservation assessment and taxonomic notes of Brachanthemum mongolorum Grubov (Asteraceae) endemic to Mongolia","authors":"Shukherdorj Baasanmunkh, Batlai Oyuntsetseg, Zagarjav Tsegmed, Dariganga Munkhtulga, Nyamjantsan Nyambayar, Long Wang, Hyeok Jae Choi","doi":"10.1002/fedr.202300014","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fedr.202300014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Brachanthemum mongolorum</i> Grubov (Asteraceae) has been previously reported as endemic and narrowly distributed in eastern Mongolia. Since 2017, we have conducted field surveys across the eastern part of this country to gain a better understanding of this species because of the scarcity of herbarium collections deposited at GAT, MW, LE, and UBA. According to ConR package, <i>B. mongolorum</i> have been assessed as Vulnerable based on the extent of occurrence (3337 km<sup>2</sup>) and the area of occupancy (40 km<sup>2</sup>) at global level. We also provided a distribution map, photo illustrations, and taxonomic notes of the species in question.</p>","PeriodicalId":53662,"journal":{"name":"Feddes Repertorium","volume":"135 3","pages":"209-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139778096","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":"Systematic significance of achene morphology and anatomy among certain species of Anthemideae (Asteraceae)","authors":"Momen Zareh","doi":"10.1002/fedr.202300027","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fedr.202300027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Achene diversity of 12 genera with 22 species of the tribe Anthemideae was studied using light and scanning electron microscopy. These genera are <i>Achillea</i> L., <i>Anacyclus</i> L., <i>Anthemis</i> L., <i>Brocchia</i> Vis., <i>Chlamydophora</i> Ehrenb. ex Less., <i>Cladanthus</i> Cass., <i>Cota</i> G. Jay, <i>Cotula</i> L. <i>Glebionis</i> Cass., <i>Matricaria</i> L., <i>Tanacetum</i> L., and <i>Tripleurospermum</i> Sch.Bip. A description of the achene of each species, a key to the investigated taxa based on morphological and anatomical features, as well as drawings of cross sections, are provided, and SEM micrographs of achenes are provided. Macro- and micro-morphological criteria concerned with achenes were investigated, and the taxonomic relationships between the studied taxa were discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":53662,"journal":{"name":"Feddes Repertorium","volume":"135 3","pages":"185-196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140491210","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}
Eduardo de Moraes e Sousa, João Vitor Carvalho de Amaral Val, Renata Brito dos Reis, Maria Claudia dos Santos Luciano, Simon Joseph Mayo, Ivanilza Moreira de Andrade
{"title":"A preliminary study of genetic diversity in populations of Montrichardia Crueg. (Araceae) estimated with ISSR molecular markers","authors":"Eduardo de Moraes e Sousa, João Vitor Carvalho de Amaral Val, Renata Brito dos Reis, Maria Claudia dos Santos Luciano, Simon Joseph Mayo, Ivanilza Moreira de Andrade","doi":"10.1002/fedr.202200048","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fedr.202200048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The two species of <i>Montrichardia</i> (Araceae) are perennial herbs of great ecological, economic, and ethnobotanical importance that form populations by clonal growth and sexual reproduction. Here, genetic diversity was studied within a drainage system distant from Amazonia. Five populations were sampled from the Rio Parnaíba Delta (northeast Brazil) and two outside it. The eight ISSR primers selected generated 342 marker bands. The non-Delta populations (<i>M. arborescens</i>) were grouped together by cluster analysis and Bayesian simulation but the Delta populations (<i>M. linifera</i>) were only grouped weakly. Ordination and Bayesian simulation grouped populations into three pairs along an east–west axis. All population pairs were significantly different (pairwise <i>PhiPT</i>, <i>p</i> ≤ 0.001). Between-population variance (AMOVA, 39.9% variance, <i>p</i> < 0.001) was much greater than between-species (12.2%, <i>p</i> < 0.034), but within-population variance was greatest (48.0%). Within the Delta, geographical distance between populations did not predict genetic similarity, but relative within-population diversity appears to be influenced by habitat differences. There is genetic evidence, but relatively weak, for recognizing the Delta populations as <i>M. linifera</i> and the non-Delta ones as <i>M. arborescens</i>; Paulino Neves (Maranhão) appears to be the easternmost record for this species. The strong between-population differences previously reported for <i>M. linifera</i> are corroborated.</p>","PeriodicalId":53662,"journal":{"name":"Feddes Repertorium","volume":"135 2","pages":"97-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139530255","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":"Bromelia longipedicellata and Bromelia stellata (Bromeliaceae): Two new species from the Brazilian Amazon","authors":"Raquel Fernandes Monteiro, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza","doi":"10.1002/fedr.202300043","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fedr.202300043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Two new species of <i>Bromelia</i> L. (Bromelioideae, Bromeliaceae) endemic to the Amazon are described, increasing to 16 the number of species recorded from the Brazilian part of the biome. <i>Bromelia longipedicelata</i> is characterized by a lax inflorescence emerging from the leaf rosette, primary bracts ovate with entire margins, floral bracts linear-lanceolate, shorter than the pedicel, flower 5.8–8 cm long, sepals elliptic and rounded, and petals ca. 60 mm long. <i>Bromelia stellata</i> has a floccose leaf sheath, inflorescence embedded in the leaf rosette, floral bract linear and completely tomentose, sepal linear-elliptic, asymmetric, lepidote to pannose, and apex acute-attenuate. Detailed descriptions, comparisons with similar species, illustrations, and comments on their etymologies, distributions, habitats, conservation status, and morphology are provided. An identification key to the <i>Bromelia</i> species of the Brazilian Amazonia is also presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":53662,"journal":{"name":"Feddes Repertorium","volume":"135 2","pages":"124-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139534071","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}
Aramide Dolapo Igbari, Temitope Olabisi Onuminya, George Isaac Nodza, Oluwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe
{"title":"Diversity and use of plant collections of the Lagos University Herbarium, Nigeria","authors":"Aramide Dolapo Igbari, Temitope Olabisi Onuminya, George Isaac Nodza, Oluwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe","doi":"10.1002/fedr.202200055","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fedr.202200055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study aimed to gain insights into the diversity and use of the collections of the Lagos University Herbarium (LUH), Nigeria. A total of 1509 species representing 188 plant families in 57 plant orders were recorded. This comprises dicotyledons (1260); monocotyledons (217); ferns (29); moss (1); conifers (1); and macro algae (1). About 1007 species of the collection are indigenous while 502 are exotic species. Herbaceous life form is the most abundant, representing 38% of the species recorded. Also, 1380 (91.4%) of the species have a recorded use while 129 (8.6%) had no known use in literature. A total of 1994 uses were recorded and distributed across 8 use categories. Of these, 52.9% are single use, 24.1% are dual use, and 23.0% have multiple uses. Plants used for medicine had the highest frequency (52.6%), followed by materials (13.8%), food plants (10.8%), environmental uses (7.3%), social uses (5.7%), animal feed (5.0%), fuel (3.0%), and poison (1.8%). The Fabaceae family had the highest use record followed by Rubiaceae, Poaceae, Malvaceae, and Euphorbiaceae. The diversity of use of species recorded in this study provides information for biodiversity research, resource planning, and sustainable usage of species.</p>","PeriodicalId":53662,"journal":{"name":"Feddes Repertorium","volume":"135 2","pages":"140-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139380638","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}