Phlegmariurus vanuatuensis (Huperzioideae, Lycopodiaceae) a new species from Vanuatu, re-circumscription of P. nummulariifolius and new combinations in Phlegmariurus

Field, Ashley Raymond (2018) Phlegmariurus vanuatuensis (Huperzioideae, Lycopodiaceae) a new species from Vanuatu, re-circumscription of P. nummulariifolius and new combinations in Phlegmariurus. PhytoKeys, 109. pp. 53-66.

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Abstract

Phlegmariurus vanuatuensis A.R.Field is described as a new species for plants endemic to the islands of Vanuatu that were previously identified with P. nummulariifolius (Blume) Ching. The Vanuatuan species differs from the widespread Asian-Oceanian species in several characteristics, most notably its acutely divergent leaf arrangement and thicker less branched fertile spikes. Phlegmariurus nummulariifolius is here re-circumscribed as plants occurring in Asia and into Oceania as far east as the Solomon Islands, being replaced eastwards by P. vanuatuensis. In addition, new nomenclatural combinations are made for Phlegmariurus australis, a species from Polynesia and for Phlegmariurus copelandianus, a species from Malesia.

Item ID: 58211
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1314-2003
Keywords: Phlegmariurus, Lycopodiaceae, Vanuatu, Oceania
Copyright Information: Copyright Ashley Raymond Field. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funders: Australian Biological Resource Study (ABRS), IPID4all Germany Academic Exchange, Queensland-Smithsonian Fellowship 2017
Projects and Grants: ABRS Grant RFL215-34 (Lycopodiaceae), Technische Universität Dresden Graduate Academy Project 2015_43
Date Deposited: 03 May 2019 00:25
FoR Codes: 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3104 Evolutionary biology > 310411 Plant and fungus systematics and taxonomy @ 100%
SEO Codes: 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences @ 100%
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