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Issue: Vol. 547 No. 1: 17 May 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-05-17
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.547.1.6
Page range: 66-76
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Nephoanthus (Melastomataceae: Sonerileae), a new genus segregated from Phyllagathis s.l., with a new species from Southern Vietnam

Botanical Garden Division, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei 10066, Taiwan
Botanical Garden Division, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei 10066, Taiwan; Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan
Southern Institute of Ecology, Institute of Applied Materials Science & Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Biology Department, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung 40453, Taiwan; Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
Asia biodiversity endemism taxonomy phylogeny morphology Eudicots

Abstract

A new genus, Nephoanthus, is established based on morphological and molecular data. It comprises two species distributed in montane forests of central to southern Vietnam and Hainan Island: the type species N. prostratus and a new species N. nubigenus. Nephoanthus is morphologically similar to Phyllagathis but phylogenetically remote from the type species of Phyllagathis in the analyses of both plastid genome and nrITS sequences. Nephoanthus is genetically associated to but significantly morphologically distinct from Driessenia, Heteroblemma, Medinilla and Tigridiopalma. A detailed morphological comparison of Nephoanthus and related taxa is provided.

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How to Cite

Lin, C.-W., Hsu, T.-C., Luu, H.T., Yang, T.-Y.A. & Li, C.-W. (2022)

Nephoanthus (Melastomataceae: Sonerileae), a new genus segregated from Phyllagathis s.l., with a new species from Southern Vietnam

. Phytotaxa 547 (1): 66–76. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.547.1.6