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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-06-23
Page range: 200–200
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Hubera senjiana is now Huberantha senjiana (Annonaceae)

Department of Botany, D.G.Vaishnav College, Chennai – 600 106, Tamil Nadu, India
Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Chennai – 600 059, Tamil Nadu, India
Department of Botany, Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for Post Graduate Studies, Pondicherry – 605 008, India
Hubera senjiana Huberantha senjiana Annonaceae Magnoliids

Abstract

The genus Hubera Chaowasku in Chaowasku et al. (2012) was established in accordance with strict monophyly based on a molecular phylogenetic analysis and morphological characters; the component species were previously considered members of the polyphyletic genus Polyalthia Blume s.l. (1830 : 68). Chaowasku, however, later felt that the genus name Hubera was too similar to Huberia DC (1828 : 167; Melastomataceae) and asked the nomenclature committee for vascular plants if it should be treated as a later homonym of Huberia DC. (Chaowasku 2013). His request was accepted by the nomenclature committee for vascular plants (Applequist 2014). Subsequently, Chaowasku replaced the generic name Hubera with a new name Huberantha and also made new combinations for all 27 species of that genus (Chaowasku et al. 2015). A new species that was recently published under Hubera (Muralidharan et al. 2015) is here transferred to Huberantha.