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Issue: Vol. 392 No. 1: 12 February 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-02-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.392.1.8
Page range: 75–83
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 47

Reappraisal of Tashiroea as a genus independent of Bredia (Melastomataceae) based on molecular data

Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan
Botanic Garden, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0003, Japan
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei 115, Taiwan
Department of Biological Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei 115, Taiwan
College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China
Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan
Laboratory of Ecology and Systematics, Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus, Senbaru 1, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
Biogeography East Asia ITS Taxonomic revision Eudicots

Abstract

Molecular phylogenetic analyses using ITS sequences were used to reconsider the taxonomic validity of Bredia okinawensis, B. yaeyamensis, and B. sinensis as an independent genus Tashiroea. The result showed that the three species formed a different phylogenetic lineage from other species of Bredia including its type species. We suggest that B. okinawensis, B. yaeyamensis, and B. sinensis should be treated as T. okinawensis, T. yaeyamensis, and T. sinensis, respectively, following Ito and Matsumura (1899) and Diels (1924).