Molecular and morphological data support the transfer of the monotypic Iranian genus Alococarpum to Prangos (Apiaceae)

DMITRY F. LYSKOV; TAHIR H. SAMIGULLIN; MICHAEL G. PIMENOV

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.299.2.6

Issue: Vol. 299 No. 2: 21 March 2017

Type: Article

Published: 2017-03-21

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.299.2.6

Page range: 223–233

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**Molecular and morphological data support the transfer of the monotypic Iranian genus Alococarpum to Prangos (Apiaceae)**

DMITRY F. LYSKOV⁺⁻
TAHIR H. SAMIGULLIN⁺⁻
MICHAEL G. PIMENOV⁺⁻

Department of Higher Plants, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1–12, Leninskie Gory, 119234, Moscow, Russia

Department of Evolutionary Biochemistry, A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1–40, Leninskie Gory, 119234, Moscow, Russia

Botanical Garden, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1–12, Leninskie Gory, 119234, Moscow, Russia

carpology Irano-Turanian flora molecular phylogeny plant taxonomy Prangos eriantha Umbelliferae Eudicots

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Abstract

Based on molecular and morphological evidence, the monotypic genus Alococarpum endemic to Iran has been transferred to the genus Prangos (as P. eriantha (DC.) Lyskov & Pimenov comb. nov.). The main diagnostic characters of fruits (shape of endosperm, division of mesocarp, presence of cyclic vittae and diffuse vascular bundles) are the same both in Prangos and Alococarpum. Our molecular analysis of nrITS/ETS markers also supported the monophyly of Prangos including Alococarpum.