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Issue: Vol. 441 No. 2: 4 May 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-05-04
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.441.2.10
Page range: 221–224
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Aptenia ×vascosilvae (A. cordifolia × A. haeckeliana) (Aizoaceae), the new nothospecies from which the horticulturally popular cultivar Aptenia ‘Red Apple’ was derived

Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P.O. Box 77000, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa.
Servicio de Vida Silvestre - CIEF (Centro para la Investigación y Experimentación Forestal) / Generalitat Valenciana, Avda. Comarques del País Valencià, 114, 46930 Quart de Poblet, València, Spain.
Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, B-1860 Meise, Belgium.
Servicio de Vida Silvestre - CIEF (Centro para la Investigación y Experimentación Forestal) / Generalitat Valenciana, Avda. Comarques del País Valencià, 114, 46930 Quart de Poblet, València, Spain.
Aptenia South Africa nothospecies Eudicots

Abstract

The genus Aptenia Brown (1925: 412) (Aizoaceae Juss.), native to southern Africa, comprises four species according to Gerbaulet (2017: 117). Aptenia cordifolia (Linnaeus filius 1782: 260) Schwantes (1928: 69) and A. haeckeliana (Berger 1910: 224) Bittrich ex Gerbaulet (2001: 68) are the parents of the hybrid material from which the cultivar Aptenia ‘Red Apple’ was selected (Brown Folsom et al. 1995: 169).