Corresponding author: Bine Xue (
Academic editor: T.L.P. Couvreur
The genus
Xue B, Chen Y, Saunders RMK (2020) Phylogenetic relationships of '
The genus
In Fiji, ten species were published under the name
As the genus
As nomenclatural transfers based solely on morphological data can sometimes be misleading, molecular phylogenetic data can provide invaluable evidence for confirming correct taxonomic placement. To avoid such errors, we have therefore sampled the remaining three Fijian
Three Fijian
The phylogenetic trees were reconstructed using Bayesian Inference (
The concatenated alignment of the 77-taxon dataset consisted of 3,659 aligned positions (
Bayesian 50% majority-rule consensus tree inferred from combined data of
The Fijian species previously assigned to
The transfer of
Type specimens of the four Fijian
The taxonomic placement of
The transfer of
Fiji, Viti Levu, Naitasiri Province, Tamavua woods, 7 miles from Suva, 9 Aug. 1927,
Fiji, Vanua Levu, Mathuata Province, east of Lambasa, on the summit ridge of Mt. Numbuiloa, 29 Oct. 1947,
Fiji, Viti Levu, Nandronga & Navosa Province, on the southern slopes of the Nausori Highlands, in the drainage of Namosi Creek, above Tumbenasolo, 29 May 1947,
Fiji, Viti Levu, Naitasiri Province, in the vicinity of Nasinu, 29 Oct. 1927,
Fiji, Ovalau, near Port Kinnaird, Jul. 1860,
Fiji, Ovalau, 1840,
Fiji, Viti Levu, Nandronga & Navosa Province, on the northern portion of the Rairaimatuku Plateau, between Nandrau and Rewasau, 11 Aug. 1947,
Fiji, Viti Levu, Mba Province, east of Tavua, near Korovou, 1 Apr. 1941,
Fiji, Fulanga, 22 Feb. 1934,
1 | Flowers with inner petals connivent, forming a mitriform dome over the reproductive organs |
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– | Flowers with inner petals spreading |
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2 | Inner petals adaxially grooved at the base; staminal connectives with a tongue-shaped apical prolongation in innermost stamens; 1 to many seeds per monocarp |
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– | Inner petals not grooved; staminal connectives of innermost stamens not expanded; 1 seed per monocarp |
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1 | Leaf blade narrowly lanceolate; monocarps ellipsoid; stipe c. 10–20 mm long |
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– | Leaf blade ovate or broadly lanceolate; monocarps oblong; stipe less than 10 mm long |
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2 | Leaf base obtuse, petiole 8–12 mm long |
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– | Leaf base rounded or subcordate, petiole 2–6 mm long |
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3 | Young branches and leaves often persistently yellowish-hirsute |
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– | Young branches and leaves glabrous |
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 31872646) and Zhongkai University startup fund (KA200540805), both awarded to Bine Xue. We are grateful to the curators of A and NY for permission to access their collections and for permission to use the leaf materials for the first author’s PhD study. We are also grateful to Andres Ortiz Rodriguez, an anonymous reviewer and Thomas Couvreur for their constructive comments to improve this manuscript.
Voucher information and GenBank accession numbers for samples used in this study (—, missing data; *, newly generated sequences). Voucher data are given for accessions for which DNA sequences were newly obtained, using the following format: species, origin, voucher and Genbank accession numbers for