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Issue: Vol. 661 No. 1: 25 Jul. 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-07-25
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.661.1.10
Page range: 120-122
Abstract views: 24
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Dryopteris microlepioides, a new synonym of Trichoneuron microlepioides (Dryopteridaceae)

Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Plant Conservation and Utilization in Southern China, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Crop Wild Relatives Omics, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Management, Science and Technology Advanced Institute, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Faculty of Applied Technology, School of Technology, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
New Synonym Vietnam Dryopteridaceae Pteridophytes

Abstract

When reviewing the species diversity of Dryopteridaceae from Vietnam, we noticed the name Dryopteris microlepioides Christensen (1934: 102) is taxonomically uncertain and to be treated (Hassler 1994–2024). Dryopteris microlepioides was described based on two collections from northern Vietnam and was thought to be a distinct species superficially resembling Microlepia speluncae (Linnaeus 1753: 1093) Moore (1857: 93) (Christensen 1934). Since its publication in 1934, this name had been neglected by authors who treated Dryopteris Adanson (1763: 20) for the fern flora or species diversity of Vietnam (e.g., Tardieu-Blot & Christensen 1938, 1941; Pham 1999; Phan 2010). At the first sight of the type specimens of D. microlepioides, the senior author (SYD) was aware of D. microlepioides representing the same taxon with Trichoneuron microlepioides Ching (1965: 119) described from southern Yunnan, China, because this taxon is morphologically unique by having the microlepioid frond habit (especially with copious pale hairs on both surfaces) and the dryopterioid sori (reniform, medial on abaxial surface of lamina) (Fig. 1). Phylogenetically, the sample of this species from northern Vietnam, which was identified as T. microlepioides by Liu et al. (2016), was resolved to be sister to Polystichopsis (Smith 1875: 217) Holttum (1947: 147) in Dryopteridaceae subfam. Polybotryoideae based on the analysis of three cpDNA sequences (rbcL, atpA, and atpB) (Liu et al. 2016). In recent years, we also collected this taxon in northern Vietnam (paratype locality of D. microlepioides) and southern Yunnan, China, and conducted phylogenetic analysis based on cpDNA genome (not presenting here). Our analysis resolved one sample from Vietnam (Dong 4598) and two collections from Yunnan (Dong 4801 and Zuo 5093) clustered together, identifying no any significant difference between them. The three samples in the phylogenetic tree formed a sister relationship in high supporting values with Polystichopsis as the result in Liu et al. (2016). This result provides further evidence supporting the same species of D. microlepioides Christensen (1934) with T. microlepioides Ching (1965).

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