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Issue: Vol. 336 No. 3: 2 February 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-02-02
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.336.3.9
Page range: 299–300
Abstract views: 22
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Nomenclatural novelties in Cheiridopsis (Ruschieae: Aizoaceae)

Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa Compton Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, 7701, Rondebosch, South Africa
Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, 7701, Rondebosch, South Africa
Compton Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa
Ruschieae Aizoaceae Eudicots

Abstract

The recent study by Powell et al. (2017) showed that the species previously included in the genera Odontophorus N.E.Brown (1927: 12) and Ihlenfeldtia H.E.K.Hartmann (1992: 47) should be recognized under the Southern African endemic genus Cheiridopsis N.E.Brown (1925: 412) (Ruschieae Schwant. ex Ihlenf., Schwant. & Straka, Aizoaceae Martinov). In the new circumscription of Powell et al. (2017), Cheiridopsis comprises of 38 species which belong to three subgenera, i.e. subgen. Cheiridopsis N.E.Brown (1925: 412), subgen. Aequifoliae (1983: 59), and subgen. Odontophoroides H.E.K.Hartmann (1983: 59) (see Hartmann & Dehn 1987, Powell et al. 2017).