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Issue: Vol. 658 No. 2: 3 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-03
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.658.2.1
Page range: 121-135
Abstract views: 21
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Phylogenetic relationships of Malesian Lady Ferns (Athyrium) provide insight into long-standing species complexes

Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. Gedung E Level 2, Jl. Lingkar Kampus Raya, Pondok Cina, Beji, Depok 16424, West Java, Indonesia. Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, Indonesian Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Cibinong Science Center, Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km. 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. Gedung E Level 2, Jl. Lingkar Kampus Raya, Pondok Cina, Beji, Depok 16424, West Java, Indonesia.
Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km. 46 Cibinong 16911, Bogor, Indonesia
Research Center for Ecology and Ethnobiology, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km. 46 Cibinong 16911, Bogor, Indonesia.
Rua de São, Mateus 485 S/C Dt., Fontainhas 2750-141, Cascais, Portugal
State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China. China National Botanical Garden, Beijing 100093, China.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, Scotland EH3 5LR, United Kingdom.
taxonomy morphology geography nomenclature Indonesia Pteridophytes

Abstract

We conducted a molecular phylogenetic study of Athyrium focusing on species from Java, Bali, and Sulawesi using five chloroplast markers. We sample from type localities to help resolve the application of names which have been applied inconsistently throughout the Malesian floristic area and tropical Asia. We show that A. nigripes is known with certainty only from Indonesia and perhaps Malaysia, corroborating earlier conclusions that the name A. nigripes does not apply to plants from mainland China, or India. Moreover, we show that A. nigripes is closely related to A. pulcherrimum, a narrow endemic from Mt. Pangrango, Java. We also find a large polytomy of species including A. erythropodum from both Java and Taiwan, A. auriculatum, A. brevipinnulatum, and A. mearnsianum, that helps to both clarify species concepts and raises new questions about the application of names. Finally, we show that although the presence of spines and setae do not coincide with a recent infrageneric classification of Athyrium, these characters remain useful for distinguishing large species groups.

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