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Issue: Vol. 298 No. 3: 14 March 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.298.3.3
Page range: 239–252
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

Validating the systematic placement of Eriosynaphe in the genus Ferula (Apiaceae: Scandiceae: Ferulinae) linked with the description of Ferula mikraskythiana sp. nov. from Romania

Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, 5–7 Clinicilor Street, 400006 Cluj‑Napoca, Romania Romanian Ornithological Society (SOR), 49 Gh. Dima Street, ap. 2, 400336 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, 5–7 Clinicilor Street, 400006 Cluj‑Napoca, Romania
Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1–12 Leninskie Gory, 119234 Moscow, Russia
Department of Botany, University of Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary MTA-DE “Lendület” Evolutionary Phylogenomics Research Group, Egyetem tér 1., 4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, 5–7 Clinicilor Street, 400006 Cluj‑Napoca, Romania
Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Babeș-Bolyai University, 30 Fântânele Street, 400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, 5–7 Clinicilor Street, 400006 Cluj‑Napoca, Romania Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Bio-Nano-Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, 42 A. Treboniu Laurean Street, 400271 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Dobrogea morphology new species nrDNA ITS phylogeny taxonomy Umbelliferae Eudicots

Abstract

The genus Eriosynaphe had a peculiar taxonomic history by having been considered also as member of the genus Johrenia in addition to originally having been established in Ferula. It has traditionally been regarded as monotypic and no previous molecular study examined its phylogenetic position. Based on sequences of the nrDNA ITS region, here we show that Eriosynaphe is ‘deeply’ nested in one of the well supported and repeatedly recognised clades of Ferula, thus arguing for its return to the genus Ferula. Additionally, a new species, Ferula mikraskythiana endemic to the Dobrogea region of southeastern Romania is described in the present paper. This species, with its overall habit and mericarp structure, closely resembles Eriosynaphe longifolia though it differs from the latter by its much larger stature, the morphology of the leaf terminal lobes and a distinct phenology. Moreover, F. mikraskythiana is a narrow endemic to a region beyond (westward to) the wide distribution range of E. longifolia.