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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Benstonea Callm. & Buerki (Pandanaceae): Characterization, circumscription, anddistribution of a new genus of screw-pines, with a synopsis of accepted species
Candollea, Volume 67, No. 2, Year 2012
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Description
Pandanaceae, a palaeotropical monocot family of c. 700 species, comprises four currently recognized genera: Freycinetia Gaudich., Martellidendron (Pic. Serm.) Callm. & Chassot, Pandanus Parkinson and Sararanga Helms. Within Pandanus (c. 500 spp.), species of sect. Acrostigma Kurz [one of four sections comprising subg. Acrostigma (Kurz) B. C. Stone] possess highly distinctive morphological features (viz. sharp spiniform, linear styles with the stigmatic groove on the abaxial side of the style and a staminate flower reduced to 1 to 3 stamens) shared with two other species (likewise belonging to subg. Acrostigma but originally placed in sect. Fusiforma B. C. Stone) that separate them from all other congeners. Based on morphology, biogeography, and recent inferences from plastid DNA sequence data, we place these distinctive species in a new genus, Benstonea Callm. & Buerki, making the necessary new combinations for the 50 recognized species, accompanied by six lectotypifications, one epitytification and two neotypifications, and placing seventeen names in synonymy. A generic key is provided to facilitate distinguishing Benstonea from the four other genera of Pandanaceae. Comments are provided on the distribution, ecology and typification of each accepted species. © CONSERVATOIRE ET JARDIN BOTANIQUES DE GENÈVE 2012.
Authors & Co-Authors
Callmander, Martin W.
United States, St. Louis
Missouri Botanical Garden
Lowry, Porter P.
France, Paris
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité
Forest, Félix
United Kingdom, Richmond
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Devey, DIon S.
United Kingdom, Richmond
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Beentje, Henk Jaap
United Kingdom, Richmond
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Buerki, Sven
United Kingdom, Richmond
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Statistics
Citations: 30
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.15553/c2012v672a12
ISSN:
03732967
Research Areas
Cancer
Genetics And Genomics