Elevation of Symplocos macrophylla subsp. namboodiriana (Symplocaceae) to the species rank

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 502 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-106
Author(s):  
JEYAMARY STEPHAN ◽  
PETER W. FRITSCH ◽  
NARAYANAN NAIR MOHANAN ◽  
DAIHRII KAIKHO LIRIINA

In a comprehensive taxonomic revision of the Old World species of Symplocos (Symplocaceae) many infraspecific taxa were recognized within S. macrophylla, but subsequently most of these have been either moved to other species or recognized at the species rank. Following this trend, we provide herewith morphological evidence to warrant the elevation of S. macrophylla subsp. namboodiriana to the species rank. Symplocos namboodiriana comb. & stat. nov. differs from the other subspecies of S. macrophylla in its 1-flowered inflorescences (versus multi-flowered), shorter bracts, and 4 to 6 secondary leaf veins (versus longer bracts and 6 to 13 secondary veins). We provide an updated description of the species along with photographic images of live specimens and a conservation threat assessment.

Bothalia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. O. Moffett

The background to and status of the genus Searsia F.A.Barkley (Anacardiaceae) is discussed and reasons given as to why it is the correct name for those Old World species in the Rhus complex fonnely regarded as subgenus  Thezera (DC.) K.Koch (section Gerontogeae Engl.). An annotated list of all the accepted 111 species and 28 fiirther infraspecific taxa in Searsia is presented, and where necessary, new combinations are made and types are designated.


2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn E. Krosnick ◽  
Andrew J. Ford ◽  
John V. Freudenstein

Recent phylogenetic analysis of the Old World species of Passiflora has indicated that two monotypic genera in the Passifloraceae, Hollrungia and Tetrapathea, are strongly supported as belonging to the genus Passiflora. Additionally, a new species from Australia was found to belong to the same clade as Hollrungia and Tetrapathea. Consequently, a taxonomic revision is presented here of Passiflora subgenus Tetrapathea including these three taxa. Tetrapathea tetrandra, the type of Passiflora subgenus Tetrapathea and historically recognized as both T. tetrandra and P. tetrandra, is formally accepted here as P. tetrandra. The single species of Hollrungia, H. aurantioides, is transferred to Passiflora subgenus Tetrapathea as P. aurantioides. The new and so far unnamed species in Passiflora subgenus Tetrapathea from Australia is also described as P. kuranda sp. nov.


Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2424 (1) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELENA P. KAMENEVA ◽  
IGOR G. PLJUSHTCH

Herina odnosumi sp. nov. from Afghanistan is described and illustrated. Herina odnosumi sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other Old World species by its predominantly reddish yellow body, acute flagellomere 1 and yellow to brown wing pattern. The other Central Asian species, H. monticola (Stackelberg, 1945), previously known from a Russian brief original description and a short illustrated note on its taxonomic position in is also redescribed. A key to the two species of Herina Robineau-Desvoidy occurring in Central Asia is provided.


1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (1-6) ◽  
pp. 139-194
Author(s):  
Almut G. Jones

The need for a comprehensive study and taxonomic revision of asters in Illinois becomes apparent when one looks at the varied treatments of this genus in the principal floristic literature of the state (G.N. Jones 1945, 1950, 1963; Jones and Fuller 1935: Mohlenbrock 1975. 1986; Mohlenbrock and Ladd 1978. Three factors contribute to the differences found in these works: the number of taxa recorded for Illinois, nomenclatural considerations such as those dictated by the principle of priority, and differences in taxonomic concepts and interpretations. In the first edition of Flora of Illinois (G.N. Jones 1945). 33 species are treated under Aster, not counting hybrids. Three additional species appear in the third edition (G.N. Jones 1963): A. chasei G.N. Jones in Jones & Fuller, a species newly described from Illinois: A. tartaricus L.f.. an occasionally escaped cultivated species; and A.parviveps (Burgess in Britton & Brown) Mack. & Bush, probably inadvertently omitted from the first two editions but included in Jones and Fuller (1955). In the most recent (Guide to the Vascular Flora of Illinois. Mohlenbrock (1986) treats 35 species. A notable change involves the transfer of A. ptarmicoides (Nees) Torrey & Gray to Solidago. In this revision, I recognize 31 species of Aster in the state of Illinois. My research has concentrated on New World and some Old World species of Aster (sensu lato) forever 15 years (A.G. Jones 1974, 1977, 1978a, b, c. I980a, b, 1982, 1983,1984, 1987; Jones and Hiepko 1981; Jones and Young 1983; Jones and Lowry 1986; and others), and much additional infomation has been introduced in this current study. My taxonomic concepts are summarized in the conspectus of classification of Illinois Aster species.


Author(s):  
A. Rodger Waterston

SynopsisThe genus Cordulegaster is represented in Sicily by two species. From an examination of material recently collected there and from evidence in the literature it is concluded that one has previously been misidentified, here named C. boltonii trinacriae ssp. nov.: the other is the little-known C. bidentatus sicilicus Fraser, 1929. A key to males of the Old World species of Cordulegaster is provided and lectotypes for C. boltonii algiricus Morton, C. princeps Morton, C. insignis amasinus Morton, C. insignis nobilis Morton, C. coronatus Morton and a neotype for C. charpentieri (Kolenati) are designated.


Author(s):  
J. C. D. Clark

Paine showed throughout his career a historically well-informed awareness of the shortcomings of English monarchs after 1688 and 1714, whom he regarded as usurpers: it was a practical critique that fed his antipathy to monarchy in general. Rather than republicanism, this chapter establishes Paine’s personal links with the ‘Patriot’ opposition to Sir Robert Walpole’s ministry, a movement that had a religiously freethinking element and drew on reconfigured Jacobitism. By contrast, Paine employed none of the other political languages available to him. Instead, Paine spoke a language of anti-Jacobitism; this chapter explores how many of his contemporaries trod a path ‘from Jacobite to Jacobin’. Nor were these old world preoccupations only; this chapter shows how they were shared in the American colonies.


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