Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 644 No. 1: 9 Apr. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-04-09
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.644.1.4
Page range: 27-34
Abstract views: 5
PDF downloaded: 0

The The current status of Henckelia peduncularis (Gesneriaceae): Taxonomy, typification, distribution and IUCN Red List assessment

Botanical Survey of India, AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah – 711103, West Bengal, India
Botanical Survey of IndiaBotanical Survey of India, Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre, Senki View, Itanagar – 791111, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Botanical Survey of India, CGO Complex, Salt Lake, Kolkata – 700064, West Bengal, India
Eudicots Chirita peduncularis Henckelia dasii IUCN Lectotype

Abstract

The long lost Henckelia peduncularis (Gesneriaceae), was hitherto known from its type specimens collected from Burma, in 1926. Recently described Henckelia dasii from Arunachal Pradesh, India; revealed substantial similarities with the aforementioned Burmese element. Morphological analyses based on the type specimens of both the names revealed H. dasii is appropriate to be reduced as a heterotypic synonym of H. peduncularis. The present article also deals with the Red List assessment of H. peduncularis based on IUCN criteria and lectotype designation for the name Chirita peduncularis B.L. Burtt.

References

  1. Bachman, S., Moat, J., Hill, A.W., Torre, J. de la & Scott, B. (2011) Supporting Red List Threat Assessments with GeoCat: Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool (Version BETA). Zookeys 150: 117–126. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.150.2109
  2. Brutt, B.L. (1965) Studies in the Gesneriaceae of the Old World XXVI. A contribution to the study of Chirita. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 26: 261–268.
  3. Don, D. (1825) Prodromus Florae Nepalensis, sive Enumeratio Vegetabilium, quae in Itinere per Nepaliam Proprie Dictam et Rgiones Conterminas, Ann. 1802–1803. Detexit atque legit D. D. Franciscus Hamilton, (olim Buchanan). J. Gale, Londini, 256 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.86
  4. IUCN (2022) Guidelines for using the IUCN Red List categories and criteria version 15.1. Prepared by the Standards and Peti­tions Committee. Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/documents/RedListGuidelines.pdf (accessed 26 January 2023)
  5. Janeesha, A.P. & Nampy, S. (2020) A taxonomic revision of Henckelia (Gesneriaceae) in South India with one new species and seven lectotypifications. Rheedea 30 (1): 48–95. https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.03
  6. Kanthraj, A.S., Rana, T.S. & Nair, K.N. (2020) Henckelia umbellata (Gesneriaceae), a new species from the eastern Himalaya of India. Rheedea 30 (1): 143–149. https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.08
  7. Mathew, J., Pichan, S., Raju, S., Sarojini, U.S. & Madhavan, R. (2022) Henckelia viridiflora (Gesneriaceae), a new species from the southern Western Ghats, India. Annales Botanici Fennici 59 (1): 143–147. https://doi.org/10.5735/085.059.0121
  8. Middleton, D.J., Weber, A., Yao, T.L., Sontag, S. & Möller, M. (2013) The current status of the species hitherto assigned to Henckelia (Gesneriaceae). Edinburgh Journal of Botany 70 (3): 385–403. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960428613000127
  9. Möller, M., Pfosser, M., Jang, C.G., Mayer, V., Clark, A., Hollingsworth, M.L., Barfuss, M.H.J., Wang, Y.Z., Kiehn, M. & Weber, A. (2009) A preliminary phylogeny of the ‘didymocarpoid Gesneriaceae’ based on three molecular data sets: incongruence with available tribal classifications. American Journal of Botany 96: 989–1010. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0800291
  10. Möller, M., Forrest, A., Wei, Y.G. & Weber, A. (2011a) A molecular phylogenetic assessment of the advanced Asiatic and Malesian didymocarpoid Gesneriaceae with focus on non-monophyletic and monotypic genera. Plant Systematics and Evolution 292: 223–248. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-010-0413-z
  11. Möller, M., Middleton, D.J., Nishii, K., Wei, Y.G., Sontag, S. & Weber, A. (2011b) A new delineation for Oreocharis incorporating an additional ten genera of Chinese Gesneriaceae. Phytotaxa 32: 1–36. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.23.1.1
  12. Möller, M., Nampy, S., Janeesha, M. & Weber, A. (2017) The Gesneriaceae of India: consequences of updated generic concepts and new family classification. Rheedea 27: 23–41. https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2017.27.1.5
  13. Puglisi, C., Middleton, D.J., Triboun, P. & Möller, M. (2011) New insights into the relationships between Paraboea, Trisepalum and Phylloboea (Gesneriaceae) and their taxonomic consequences. Taxon 60: 1693–1702. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.606014
  14. Rafidah, A.R., Kiew, R. & Haron, N.W. (2011) To which genus does the enigmatic Peninsular Malaysia Chirita elata (Gesneriaceae) belong? Blumea 56: 18–20. https://doi.org/10.3767/000651911X564129
  15. Shi, X.Z., Wang, J.C. & Yang, L.H. (2021) Henckelia inaequalifolia (Gesneriaceae), a new species from Sichuan, China. Phytotaxa 518 (1): 54–60. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.518.1.6
  16. Sirimongkol, S., Parnell, J.A.N., Hodkinson, T.R., Middleton, D.J. & Puglisi, C. (2019) Five new species of Henckelia (Gesneriaceae) from Myanmar and Thailand. Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) 47 (1): 38–54. https://doi.org/10.20531/tfb.2019.47.1.08
  17. Sprengel, K. (1817) Fam. XXIX. Perfonaten. Anleitung Zur Kenntniss der Gewächse, Zweite 2: 390–406.
  18. Taram, M., Borah, D., Singh, R.K. & Tag, H. (2021) Two new species of Henckelia (Gesneriaceae) from the Eastern Himalayan state Arunachal Pradesh, India. Feddes Repertorium 132 (4): 364–371. https://doi.org/10.1002/fedr.202100006
  19. Wallich, N. (1819) Art. XXVI: Notice of the progress of Botanical Science in Bengal, being the substance of a letter from Dr. Wallich, superintendent of the Botanical garden near Culcutta, to Francis Hamilton. Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 1: 377–380.
  20. Wang, Y.Z., Mao, R.B., Liu, Y., Li, J.M., Dong, Y., Li, Z.Y. & Smith, J.F. (2011) Phylogenetic reconstruction of Chirita and allies (Gesneriaceae) with taxonomic treatments. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 49: 50–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-6831.2010.00113.x
  21. Weber, A. & Burtt, B.L. (1998 [‘1997’]) Remodelling of Didymocarpus and associated genera (Gesneriaceae). Beitrage zur Biologie der Pflanzen 70: 293–363.
  22. Weber, A., Middleton, D.J., Forrest, A., Kiew, R., Lim, C.L., Rafidah, A.R., Sontag, S., Triboun, P., Wei, Y.G., Yao, T.L. & Möller, M. (2011a) Molecular systematics and remodelling of Chirita and associated genera (Gesneriaceae). Taxon 60 (3): 767–790. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.603012
  23. Weber, A., Wei, Y.G., Puglisi, C., Mayer, V. & Möller, M. (2011b) A new definition of the genus Petrocodon (Gesneriaceae). Phytotaxa 23: 49–67. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.23.1.3
  24. Weber, A., Wei, Y.G., Sontag, S. & Möller, M. (2011c) Inclusion of Metabriggsia into Hemiboea (Gesneriaceae). Phytotaxa 23: 37–48. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.23.1.2
  25. Weber, A., Middleton, D.J., Clark, J.L. & Möller, M. (2020) Keys to the infrafamilial taxa and genera of Gesneriaceae. Rheedea 30 (1): 5–47. https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.01.02
  26. Wei, Y.G., Wen, F., Chen, W.H., Shui, Y.M. & Möller, M. (2010) Litostigma, a new genus from China: a morphological link between basal and derived didymocarpoid Gesneriaceae. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 67: 161–184. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960428609990291
  27. Wood, D. (1974) A revision of Chirita (Gesneriaceae). Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 33: 123–205.