Abstract
A new species of Vera-duthiea (Hyacinthaceae) is described from the southern parts of the Dhofar province of Oman. The species is fully described and illustrated, including information on its taxonomic relationships, biology, habitat and distribution. An assessment of its conservation status is also provided.
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Baker, J.G. (1873b) Revision of the genera and species of Scilleae and Chlorogaleae. Journal of the Linnean Society 13: 209–290. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.1873.tb00095.x
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Crouch, N.R., Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Pinter, M. & Alonso-Vargas, M.Á. (2018) Zingela (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a distinct new urgineoid genus from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Phytotaxa 371: 33–41. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.371.1.4
Crouch, N.R., Martínez-Azorín, M. & Chapano, C. (2020) Is Urginea zambesiaca a species of Zingela (Hyacinthaceae, Urgineoideae)? Phytotaxa 470: 259–262. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.470.3.7
De Candolle, A.P. (1825) Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 2. Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Wu?rtz, Paris, 644 pp.
Harvey, W.H. (1844) Litanthus, a new genus of Asphodeleae from South Africa. The London Journal of Botany 3: 314–315.
Hooker, J.D. (1867) Bowiea volubilis. Curtis´s Botanical Magazine Ser. 3, 23: t. 5619.
IPNI (2021) The international plant names index. Available from http://www.ipni.org (continuously updated; accessed 29<sup>th</sup> August 2021)
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Knirsch, W., Martínez-Azorín, M., Pfosser, M. & Wetschnig, W. (2015) The reinstatement and rediagnosis of the madagascan genus Rhodocodon (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), with validation and remarks on H. Perrier’s taxa. Phytotaxa 195: 101–134. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.195.2.1
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Manning, J.C. & Goldblatt, P. (2018) Systematics of Drimia Jacq. (Hyacinthaceae: Urgineoideae) in southern Africa. Strelitzia 40. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 173 pp.
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B. & Juan, A. (2007) Taxonomic revision of Ornithogalum subg. Cathissa (Salisb.) Baker (Hyacinthaceae). Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 64: 7?25. https://doi.org/10.3989/ajbm.2007.v64.i1.47
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B. & Juan, A. (2009) Taxonomic revision of Ornithogalum subg. Beryllis (Hyacinthaceae) in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. Belgian Journal of Botany 142: 140?162.
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Juan, A. & Fay, M.F. (2011) Molecular phylogenetics of subfamily Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on nuclear and plastid DNA regions, including a new taxonomic arrangement. Annals of Botany 107: 1?37. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcq207
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Dold, A.P., Wetschnig, W., Pinter, M., Pfosser, M. & Van Jaarsveld, E. (2013) Sagittanthera (Hyacinthaceae, Urgineoideae), a new buzz pollinated genus from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Phytotaxa 98: 43?54. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.98.2.2
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Pinter, M. & Wetschnig, W. (2017) Aulostemon (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a new genus from South Africa. Phytotaxa 321: 287?293. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.321.3.6
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Alonso-Vargas, M.Á., Dold, A.P., Pinter, M. & Wetschnig, W. (2018a) Austronea (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a new genus from southern Africa, including the description of seven new species. Phytotaxa 365: 101–129. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.365.2.1
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crouch, N.R. & Crespo, M.B. (2018b) Vera-duthiea zebrina (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a new species from eastern South Africa, and a first genus record for southern Africa. Phytotaxa 375: 283–289. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.375.4.4
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Pinter, M., Slade, J.M. & Wetschnig, W. (2019a) Iosanthus (Hyacinthaceae subfam. Urgineoideae), a new genus from Southern Africa to include Ornithogalum toxicarium and its removal from Ornithogaloideae. Plant Biosystems 153: 580–588. https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2018.1527793
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B. Alonso-Vargas, M.Á., Dold, A.P., Crouch, N.R., Pfosser, M., Mucina, L., Pinter, M. & Wetschnig, W. (2019b) New combinations in tribe Urgineeae (Asparagaceae subfam. Scilloideae) with comments on contrasting taxonomic treatments. Phytotaxa 397: 291–299. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.397.4.3
Martínez-Azorín, M., Dold, A.P., Crespo, M.B., Pinter, M., Alonso-Vargas, M.Á. & Wetschnig, W. (2019c) A taxonomic revision of Geschollia (Asparagaceae, Urgineeae)—from a monotypic genus towards its diversification, including the description of five new species. Phytotaxa 427: 85–114. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.427.2.1
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Alonso-Vargas, M.A., Crouch, N.R. & Pinter, M. (2021) Triandra pellabergensis (Hyacinthaceae subfam. Urgineoideae), a new genus and species from Pella se Berge, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Phytotaxa 487: 65–74. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.487.1.5
Maurin, O., Gere, J., van Der Bank, M., Boatwright, J.S. (2017) The inclusion of Anogeissus, Buchenavia and Pteleopsis in Terminalia (Combretaceae: Terminaliinae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 184: 312–325. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/box029
Miller, A.G. & Morris, M. (1988) Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman. Traditional, Economic and Medicinal Uses. – Muscat, Oman: The Office of the Advisor for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, 361 pp.
Newton, L.E. (2003) A new Ornithogalum from Kenya. The Plantsman 2: 18–20.
Patzelt, A. (2014) Oman Plant Red Data Book. Oman Botanic Garden Publication No. 1. – Diwan of Royal Court, Oman Botanic Garden, Sultanate of Oman, 310 pp.
Patzelt, A. (2015) Synopsis of the Flora and Vegetation of Oman, with Special Emphasis on Patterns of Plant Endemism. Abhandlungen der Braunschweigischen Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 2014: 282–317.
Pfosser, M. & Speta, F. (1999) Phylogenetics of Hyacinthaceae based on plastid DNA sequences. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86: 852–875. https://doi.org/10.2307/2666172
Pfosser, M. & Speta, F. (2001) Bufadienolide und DNA-Sequenzen: Über Zusammenhalt und Aufteilung der Urgineoideae (Hyacinthaceae). Stapfia 75: 177–250.
Pfosser, M., Knirsch, W., Pinter, M., Ali, S., Dutta, S. & Wetschnig, W. (2012) Phylogenetic relationships of Malagasy Hyacinthaceae. Plant Ecology and Evolution 145: 65–72.
Pinter, M., Crespo, M.B., Ilg, I., Luidold, A.K., Martínez-Azorín, M., Müller-Doblies, U., Müller-Doblies, D., Pfosser, M. & Wetschnig, W. (2013) Mucinaea (Hyacinthaceae-Urgineoideae), a remarkable new genus from Namaqualand (Northern Cape Province, South Africa). Phyton (Horn, Austria) 53: 289–304.
Rafinesque, C.S. (1837) Flora Telluriana 3. H. Probasco, Philadelphia, 100 pp.
Salisbury, R.A. (1866) The genera of plants: a fragment containing part of Liriogamae. John van Voorst, London, 143 pp.
Scott, A.J. (1979) A revision of Anogeissus (Combretaceae). Kew Bulletin 33: 555–566.
Speta, F. (1998a) Hyacinthaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The families and genera of vascular plants 3: 261–285. Springer. Berlin.
Speta, F. (1998b) Systematische Analyse der Gattung Scilla L. s.l. (Hyacinthaceae). Phyton (Horn, Austria) 38: 1–141.
Speta, F. (2001) Die echte und die falsche Meerzwiebel: Charybdis Speta und Stellarioides Medicus (Hyacinthaceae), mit Neubeschreibungen und Neukombinationen im Anhang. Stapfia 75: 139–176.
Speta, F. (2016) Substitution of an illegitimate generic name in Hyacinthaceae, and validation of names of already described species in Ornithogalum (Hyacinthaceae) and Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae). (Edited by Gutermann, W. & Speta, E.). Phyton (Horn, Austria) 56: 153–159.
Stedje, B. (1987) A revision of the genus Drimia (Hyacinthaceae) in East Africa. Nordic Journal of Botany 7: 655–666. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-1051.1987.tb02034.x
Steinheil, A. (1834) Note sur le genre Urginea nouvellement formé dans la famille des Liliacées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Sér. 2, 1: 321–332.
Swartz, O.P. (1788) Nova Genera & Species Plantarum seu Prodromus descriptionum Vegetabilium, maximam partem incognitorum quae sub itinere in Indiam Occidentalem annis 1783–87. Holmiae, Stockholm, 158 pp.
Wagenitz, G. (1991) New taxa and new names in the genus Volutaria Cass. (Compositae). Candollea 46: 407–410.
Willdenow, C.L. (1799) Caroli a Linné Species Plantarum. Editio Quarta, vol. 2 (1). Impensis G.C. Nauk, Berolini [Berlin], 823 pp.
Wolff, H. (1927) Adenosciadium. In: Engl. Pflanzenreich, Umbellif.-Apioid.-Ammin. pp. 364.
Wright, C.H. (1916) Diagnoses africanae: LXIX. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1916: 229–235. https://doi.org/10.2307/4114331
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016) An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181: 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12385
Baker, J.G. (1873a) On Schizobasis, a new genus of Liliaceae from Cape Colony. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 11: 105.
Baker, J.G. (1873b) Revision of the genera and species of Scilleae and Chlorogaleae. Journal of the Linnean Society 13: 209–290. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.1873.tb00095.x
Baker, J.G. (1880) Notes on a collection of flowering plants made by L. Kitching, Esq., in Madagascar in 1979. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 18: 264–281. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.1881.tb01257.x
Chase, M.W., Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.F. (2009) A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161: 132–136.
Crouch, N.R., Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Pinter, M. & Alonso-Vargas, M.Á. (2018) Zingela (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a distinct new urgineoid genus from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Phytotaxa 371: 33–41. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.371.1.4
Crouch, N.R., Martínez-Azorín, M. & Chapano, C. (2020) Is Urginea zambesiaca a species of Zingela (Hyacinthaceae, Urgineoideae)? Phytotaxa 470: 259–262. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.470.3.7
De Candolle, A.P. (1825) Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 2. Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Wu?rtz, Paris, 644 pp.
Harvey, W.H. (1844) Litanthus, a new genus of Asphodeleae from South Africa. The London Journal of Botany 3: 314–315.
Hooker, J.D. (1867) Bowiea volubilis. Curtis´s Botanical Magazine Ser. 3, 23: t. 5619.
IPNI (2021) The international plant names index. Available from http://www.ipni.org (continuously updated; accessed 29<sup>th</sup> August 2021)
IUCN (2012). IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. Second edition. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN.
Knirsch, W., Martínez-Azorín, M., Pfosser, M. & Wetschnig, W. (2015) The reinstatement and rediagnosis of the madagascan genus Rhodocodon (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), with validation and remarks on H. Perrier’s taxa. Phytotaxa 195: 101–134. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.195.2.1
Krause, K. (1914) Liliaceae africanae. V. In: Engler, A. (Ed.) Beiträge zur Flora von Afrika XLIII. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 51: 440–450.
Kunth, K.S. (1843) Enumeratio plantarum omnium hucusque cognitarum, secundum familias naturales disposita, adjectis characteribus, differentiis et synonymis. Vol. 4. J.G. Cottae, Stutgardiae et Tubingae, 752 pp.
Manning, J.C., Goldblatt, P. & Fay, M.F. (2004) A revised generic synopsis of Hyacinthaceae in Sub-Saharan Africa, based on molecular evidence, including new combinations and the new tribe Pseudoprospereae. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 60: 533–568.
Manning, J.C. & Goldblatt, P. (2018) Systematics of Drimia Jacq. (Hyacinthaceae: Urgineoideae) in southern Africa. Strelitzia 40. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 173 pp.
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B. & Juan, A. (2007) Taxonomic revision of Ornithogalum subg. Cathissa (Salisb.) Baker (Hyacinthaceae). Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 64: 7?25. https://doi.org/10.3989/ajbm.2007.v64.i1.47
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B. & Juan, A. (2009) Taxonomic revision of Ornithogalum subg. Beryllis (Hyacinthaceae) in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. Belgian Journal of Botany 142: 140?162.
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Juan, A. & Fay, M.F. (2011) Molecular phylogenetics of subfamily Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on nuclear and plastid DNA regions, including a new taxonomic arrangement. Annals of Botany 107: 1?37. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcq207
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Dold, A.P., Wetschnig, W., Pinter, M., Pfosser, M. & Van Jaarsveld, E. (2013) Sagittanthera (Hyacinthaceae, Urgineoideae), a new buzz pollinated genus from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Phytotaxa 98: 43?54. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.98.2.2
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Pinter, M. & Wetschnig, W. (2017) Aulostemon (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a new genus from South Africa. Phytotaxa 321: 287?293. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.321.3.6
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Alonso-Vargas, M.Á., Dold, A.P., Pinter, M. & Wetschnig, W. (2018a) Austronea (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a new genus from southern Africa, including the description of seven new species. Phytotaxa 365: 101–129. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.365.2.1
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crouch, N.R. & Crespo, M.B. (2018b) Vera-duthiea zebrina (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a new species from eastern South Africa, and a first genus record for southern Africa. Phytotaxa 375: 283–289. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.375.4.4
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Pinter, M., Slade, J.M. & Wetschnig, W. (2019a) Iosanthus (Hyacinthaceae subfam. Urgineoideae), a new genus from Southern Africa to include Ornithogalum toxicarium and its removal from Ornithogaloideae. Plant Biosystems 153: 580–588. https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2018.1527793
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B. Alonso-Vargas, M.Á., Dold, A.P., Crouch, N.R., Pfosser, M., Mucina, L., Pinter, M. & Wetschnig, W. (2019b) New combinations in tribe Urgineeae (Asparagaceae subfam. Scilloideae) with comments on contrasting taxonomic treatments. Phytotaxa 397: 291–299. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.397.4.3
Martínez-Azorín, M., Dold, A.P., Crespo, M.B., Pinter, M., Alonso-Vargas, M.Á. & Wetschnig, W. (2019c) A taxonomic revision of Geschollia (Asparagaceae, Urgineeae)—from a monotypic genus towards its diversification, including the description of five new species. Phytotaxa 427: 85–114. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.427.2.1
Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Alonso-Vargas, M.A., Crouch, N.R. & Pinter, M. (2021) Triandra pellabergensis (Hyacinthaceae subfam. Urgineoideae), a new genus and species from Pella se Berge, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Phytotaxa 487: 65–74. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.487.1.5
Maurin, O., Gere, J., van Der Bank, M., Boatwright, J.S. (2017) The inclusion of Anogeissus, Buchenavia and Pteleopsis in Terminalia (Combretaceae: Terminaliinae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 184: 312–325. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/box029
Miller, A.G. & Morris, M. (1988) Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman. Traditional, Economic and Medicinal Uses. – Muscat, Oman: The Office of the Advisor for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, 361 pp.
Newton, L.E. (2003) A new Ornithogalum from Kenya. The Plantsman 2: 18–20.
Patzelt, A. (2014) Oman Plant Red Data Book. Oman Botanic Garden Publication No. 1. – Diwan of Royal Court, Oman Botanic Garden, Sultanate of Oman, 310 pp.
Patzelt, A. (2015) Synopsis of the Flora and Vegetation of Oman, with Special Emphasis on Patterns of Plant Endemism. Abhandlungen der Braunschweigischen Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 2014: 282–317.
Pfosser, M. & Speta, F. (1999) Phylogenetics of Hyacinthaceae based on plastid DNA sequences. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86: 852–875. https://doi.org/10.2307/2666172
Pfosser, M. & Speta, F. (2001) Bufadienolide und DNA-Sequenzen: Über Zusammenhalt und Aufteilung der Urgineoideae (Hyacinthaceae). Stapfia 75: 177–250.
Pfosser, M., Knirsch, W., Pinter, M., Ali, S., Dutta, S. & Wetschnig, W. (2012) Phylogenetic relationships of Malagasy Hyacinthaceae. Plant Ecology and Evolution 145: 65–72.
Pinter, M., Crespo, M.B., Ilg, I., Luidold, A.K., Martínez-Azorín, M., Müller-Doblies, U., Müller-Doblies, D., Pfosser, M. & Wetschnig, W. (2013) Mucinaea (Hyacinthaceae-Urgineoideae), a remarkable new genus from Namaqualand (Northern Cape Province, South Africa). Phyton (Horn, Austria) 53: 289–304.
Rafinesque, C.S. (1837) Flora Telluriana 3. H. Probasco, Philadelphia, 100 pp.
Salisbury, R.A. (1866) The genera of plants: a fragment containing part of Liriogamae. John van Voorst, London, 143 pp.
Scott, A.J. (1979) A revision of Anogeissus (Combretaceae). Kew Bulletin 33: 555–566.
Speta, F. (1998a) Hyacinthaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The families and genera of vascular plants 3: 261–285. Springer. Berlin.
Speta, F. (1998b) Systematische Analyse der Gattung Scilla L. s.l. (Hyacinthaceae). Phyton (Horn, Austria) 38: 1–141.
Speta, F. (2001) Die echte und die falsche Meerzwiebel: Charybdis Speta und Stellarioides Medicus (Hyacinthaceae), mit Neubeschreibungen und Neukombinationen im Anhang. Stapfia 75: 139–176.
Speta, F. (2016) Substitution of an illegitimate generic name in Hyacinthaceae, and validation of names of already described species in Ornithogalum (Hyacinthaceae) and Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae). (Edited by Gutermann, W. & Speta, E.). Phyton (Horn, Austria) 56: 153–159.
Stedje, B. (1987) A revision of the genus Drimia (Hyacinthaceae) in East Africa. Nordic Journal of Botany 7: 655–666. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-1051.1987.tb02034.x
Steinheil, A. (1834) Note sur le genre Urginea nouvellement formé dans la famille des Liliacées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Sér. 2, 1: 321–332.
Swartz, O.P. (1788) Nova Genera & Species Plantarum seu Prodromus descriptionum Vegetabilium, maximam partem incognitorum quae sub itinere in Indiam Occidentalem annis 1783–87. Holmiae, Stockholm, 158 pp.
Wagenitz, G. (1991) New taxa and new names in the genus Volutaria Cass. (Compositae). Candollea 46: 407–410.
Willdenow, C.L. (1799) Caroli a Linné Species Plantarum. Editio Quarta, vol. 2 (1). Impensis G.C. Nauk, Berolini [Berlin], 823 pp.
Wolff, H. (1927) Adenosciadium. In: Engl. Pflanzenreich, Umbellif.-Apioid.-Ammin. pp. 364.
Wright, C.H. (1916) Diagnoses africanae: LXIX. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1916: 229–235. https://doi.org/10.2307/4114331