AlisoPub Date : 2010-01-01DOI: 10.5642/ALISO.20102801.05
D. Keil, M. Elvin
{"title":"Helianthus inexpectatus (Asteraceae), a Tetraploid Perennial New Species from Southern California","authors":"D. Keil, M. Elvin","doi":"10.5642/ALISO.20102801.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/ALISO.20102801.05","url":null,"abstract":"Helianthus inexpectatus is described as a new species from the Newhall Ranch of northern Los Angeles County, California. It is a tetraploid (2n 5 68) perennial that is morphologically similar to—and intermediate in some characters between—the diploid H. nuttallii and the hexaploid H. californicus.","PeriodicalId":80410,"journal":{"name":"Aliso","volume":"28 1","pages":"59-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70795407","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}
AlisoPub Date : 2010-01-01DOI: 10.5642/ALISO.20102801.03
M. Olonova
{"title":"The challenge of a Siberian bluegrass (Poa) phylogeny.","authors":"M. Olonova","doi":"10.5642/ALISO.20102801.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/ALISO.20102801.03","url":null,"abstract":"In Siberia, the bluegrass genus (Poa) comprises 43 species and 61 subspecies in 12 sections. Diverse modes of speciation, including polyploidy and hybridization, have led to reticulate evolution and adaptive radiation. Cladistic methods that ignore hybridization and reticulate evolution may not be appropriate for morphological data. The number of morphological characters suitable for bluegrass analysis is limited, a majority does not have clear adaptive significance, and the character states cannot be readily polarized, rendering phylogenetic reconstruction very difficult in this group. Other methods of estimating phylogenetic relationships should be used to test hypotheses about relationships and hybridization. Biochemical and molecular data, as well as karyological, phytogeographical, and other lines of evidence should be combined to establish an explicit and testable hypothesis of the sequence of character state changes acquired during biotic differentiation.","PeriodicalId":80410,"journal":{"name":"Aliso","volume":"28 1","pages":"51-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70795767","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}
AlisoPub Date : 2010-01-01DOI: 10.5642/ALISO.20102801.06
L. Brouillet
{"title":"A New Combination in Acmispon (Fabaceae: Loteae) for California","authors":"L. Brouillet","doi":"10.5642/ALISO.20102801.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/ALISO.20102801.06","url":null,"abstract":"The new combination Acmispon argophyllus (A.Gray) Brouillet var. niveus (Greene) Brouillet is made.","PeriodicalId":80410,"journal":{"name":"Aliso","volume":"28 1","pages":"63-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70796144","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}
AlisoPub Date : 2010-01-01DOI: 10.5642/ALISO.20102801.02
R. Thorne, R. Moran, R. Minnich
{"title":"Vascular plants of the high Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico: an annotated checklist.","authors":"R. Thorne, R. Moran, R. Minnich","doi":"10.5642/ALISO.20102801.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/ALISO.20102801.02","url":null,"abstract":"The Sierra San Pedro Mártir (SSPM) is the highest mountain range in Baja California, Mexico, the summit of Picacho del Diablo peak attaining 3095 meters. An annotated checklist describes the vascular flora of the SSPM high country, defined here as above 1800 m. It comprises almost 500 species in 251 genera and 78 families. The high country is dominated by coniferous forest species known from montane California and Arizona whose southern ranges terminate in the SSPM. The annotated checklist identifies 453 species in 236 genera as indigenous, of which 23 species and one variety are endemic to the SSPM. Over 30 species are unreported from Alta California but occur in regions northeast of Baja California. The climate, vegetation and biogeography of the range are described. Botanical explorations to the area since 1893 are outlined with reference to collectors, their collections, and herbaria where specimens are housed. For each species, the checklist cites one to several collections, months in flower, and known distribution ranges. Asteraceae is the most speciose of the twelve largest families, and Juncus contributes the most indigenous species, followed by Carex and Muhlenbergia. Listed separately are species from chaparral or desert scrub just below the 1800 m limit that are thought to extend into the high country but for which no records exist at this time.","PeriodicalId":80410,"journal":{"name":"Aliso","volume":"28 1","pages":"1-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70795754","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}
AlisoPub Date : 2010-01-01DOI: 10.5642/ALISO.20102801.04
D. Keil
{"title":"Two new combinations in western North American Asteraceae.","authors":"D. Keil","doi":"10.5642/ALISO.20102801.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/ALISO.20102801.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80410,"journal":{"name":"Aliso","volume":"28 1","pages":"57-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70795782","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}
AlisoPub Date : 2010-01-01DOI: 10.5642/ALISO.20102801.07
Travis Columbus, James P. Smith
{"title":"Nomenclatural changes for some grasses in California and the Muhlenbergia Clade (Poaceae).","authors":"Travis Columbus, James P. Smith","doi":"10.5642/ALISO.20102801.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/ALISO.20102801.07","url":null,"abstract":"New combinations and names are here validated for ten grass (Poaceae) taxa in California for the forthcoming revision of The Jepson Manual. In addition, guided by recent molecular phylogenetic studies, ten non-California grass species are here transferred to Muhlenbergia (Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae) to achieve monophyly of the genus. Lolium, long known to be phylogenetically nested within Festuca, is here subsumed into Festuca, and the circumscription of Stipa is expanded to include all Stipeae (native and nonnative) in California. In Stipeae, most currently recognized genera are not monophyletic. Attaining monophyly while bearing in mind identification for persons not expert in Stipeae were the guiding principles in expanding the circumscription of Stipa. Newly recognized are: Elymus elymoides var. californicus, E. elymoides var. hordeoides, Festuca perennis, Hilaria subgen. Pleuraphis, Muhlenbergia brevigluma,M. diandra,M. imperfecta,M. multiflora,M. paniculata,M. phleoides,M. plumiseta,M. spatha, M. tricholepis, M. uniseta, Schismus barbatus var. arabicus, Stipa chaetophora, S. divaricata, S. exigua, S. mauritanica, and S. purpurata.","PeriodicalId":80410,"journal":{"name":"Aliso","volume":"28 1","pages":"65-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70796204","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}
AlisoPub Date : 2009-01-01DOI: 10.5642/ALISO.20092701.04
S. Carlquist
{"title":"Non-random vessel distribution in woods: patterns, modes, diversity, correlations.","authors":"S. Carlquist","doi":"10.5642/ALISO.20092701.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/ALISO.20092701.04","url":null,"abstract":"Vessel grouping is a form of non-random distribution that becomes functionally valuable when the background consists of non-conductive imperforate tracheary elements (fiber-tracheids and libriform fibers); ungrouped vessels, randomly placed, often occur in an all-tracheid background. Types of vessel grouping are described and illustrated: diagonal, tangential, radial, median radial bands, and growth rings. Other non-random distributions considered include degrees and kinds of cable construction, patchy vessel distributions, vessel displacement related to succulence, and patterns involving successive cambia. Non-random vessel distributions inevitably involve non-random placement of imperforate tracheary elements, so that a parallel set of mechanical adaptations is often simultaneously achieved. Correlations between various types of non-random vessel patterns and possible physiological factors are hypothesized. Most correlations involve enhanced conductive safety, but vessel distribution related to water and photosynthate storage, resistance to torsion, and increased longevity of xylem are cited. Non-randomness of vessels is a source of diversity in wood structure that can be achieved readily (as growth rings show) and polyphyletically. These modifications offer numerous ways in which wood histology can be repatterned for probable adaptations in conductive physiology, mechanical strength, and storage capability, perhaps by means of regulatory genes. Grouping of vessels into vascular bundles in primary xylem of stems and leaves in dicots is a form of non-randomness, and the significance of vascular bundles (as opposed to steles) as adaptive forms of organization is considered briefly. Monocots differ from dicots in rarely having division of labor in tracheary elements within an organ, but monocots exhibit tradeoffs in which conductive efficiency (vessel presence in an organ) and conductive safety (tracheids but no vessels in an organ) can be achieved within a single plant.","PeriodicalId":80410,"journal":{"name":"Aliso","volume":"27 1","pages":"39-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70795717","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}
AlisoPub Date : 2009-01-01DOI: 10.5642/ALISO.20092701.03
David J Hearn
{"title":"Descriptive Anatomy and Evolutionary Patterns of Anatomical Diversification in Adenia (Passifloraceae)","authors":"David J Hearn","doi":"10.5642/ALISO.20092701.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/ALISO.20092701.03","url":null,"abstract":"To understand evolutionary patterns and processes that account for anatomical diversity in relation to ecology and life form diversity, anatomy of storage roots and stems of the genus Adenia (Passifloraceae) were analyzed using an explicit phylogenetic context. Over 65,000 measurements are reported for 47 quantitative and qualitative traits from 58 species in the genus. Vestiges of lianous ancestry were apparent throughout the group, as treelets and lianous taxa alike share relatively short, often wide, vessel elements with simple, transverse perforation plates, and alternate lateral wall pitting; fibriform vessel elements, tracheids associated with vessels, and libriform fibers as additional tracheary elements; and well-developed axial parenchyma. Multiple cambial variants were observed, including anomalous parenchyma proliferation, anomalous vascular strands, successive cambia, and a novel type of intraxylary phloem. Successive cambia, trichomes, dermal features, and intraxylary phloem were synapomorphic for particular clades, whereas most traits were homoplastic. Several anatomical features of Adenia are consistent with xeromorphy. Repeated loss and gain of cuticularized, photosynthetic mature stems, narrow vessel elements, highly aggregated vessels, and other features indicative of xeromorphy reveal labile evolution of ecologically significant anatomical features, whereas features that are characteristic of the liana life form reveal evolutionary conservation despite diversification of life form within Adenia.","PeriodicalId":80410,"journal":{"name":"Aliso","volume":"27 1","pages":"13-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70795708","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}
AlisoPub Date : 2008-12-31DOI: 10.5642/ALISO.20082601.08
G. Benny
{"title":"Methods Used by Dr. R. K. Benjamin, and Other Mycologists, to Isolate Zygomycetes","authors":"G. Benny","doi":"10.5642/ALISO.20082601.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/ALISO.20082601.08","url":null,"abstract":"The methods that Dr. Richard K. Benjamin used to isolate Zygomycetes are discussed. These processes involved the following five steps: (1) collection, (2) plating, (3) isolation, (4) culture, and (5) maintenance. Additional methods, materials and modifications used to isolate Zygomycetes are summarized. The author considers the flattening of the aerial hyphae onto the substrate of the faster- and higher-growing Mucorales for several consecutive days to be the critical step in isolating species of Coemansia, Piptocephalis, Syncephalis, and Dimargaritales. The methods used by other scholars to isolate, culture, and study many taxa in Zygomycetes also are discussed.","PeriodicalId":80410,"journal":{"name":"Aliso","volume":"26 1","pages":"37-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70795838","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}
AlisoPub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.5642/ALISO.20082601.07
A. Weir
{"title":"The Genus Prolixandromyces (Laboulbeniales) in the Old World Prolixandromyces (Laboulbeniales)","authors":"A. Weir","doi":"10.5642/ALISO.20082601.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/ALISO.20082601.07","url":null,"abstract":"Two new species of Prolixandromyces (Laboulbeniales) parasitic on Rhagovelia (Heteroptera: Veliidae) are described and illustrated: Prolixandromyces benjaminii from the Philippine Islands and P. lanceolatus from Africa (Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and South Africa) and Asia (Indonesia: Sulawesi, Sumba, Timor; Malaysia: Selangor; and Sri Lanka). In order to accommodate these species the circumscription of Prolixandromyces is emended. The new taxa are compared with the one known species from the Old World, P. triandrus from Spain, and with the five known New World taxa.","PeriodicalId":80410,"journal":{"name":"Aliso","volume":"26 1","pages":"29-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70795830","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}