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Issue: Vol. 309 No. 3: 16 June 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-06-16
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.309.3.15
Page range: 297–298
Abstract views: 27
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The nomenclatural demise of Oncodostigma (Annonaceae): the remaining species transferred to Meiogyne

Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, P.R. China Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, P.R. China
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, P.R. China
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, P.R. China
Oncodostigma O. microflorum Meiogyne Annonaceae Magnoliids

Abstract

Oncodostigma Diels (1912: 143) was erected by Diels (1912) based on the type species O. leptoneura Diels (1912: 143). Five additional species were subsequently added to the genus, viz.: O. wilsonii Guillaumin (1931: 224), O. monosperma (Hooker & Thomson 1872: 57) Sinclair (1951: 605), O. mindorense (Merrill 1907: 273) Bân (1974: 1779), O. hainanense (Merrill 1925: 131) Tsiang & Li (1979: 81) and O. microflorum Okada (1996: 8). Van Heusden (1992) conducted a detailed comparative study of the floral morphology of Annonaceae and noted that Oncodostigma is not clearly distinct from Meiogyne Miquel (1865: 12). She subsequently transferred O. mindorense and O. monosperma to Meiogyne and reduced O. wilsonii to synonymy with M. cylindrocarpa (Burck 1911: 433) Heusden (1994: 499). The name Oncodostigma hainanense (Merrill 1925: 131) Tsiang & Li (1979: 81) had previously been transferred to Meiogyne by Bân (1973).