@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref25570,
author = {Martin Cheek and Gill Challen and Aiah Lebbie and Hannah Banks and Patricia Barbera and Ricarda Riina},
title = {Discovering Karima (Euphorbiaceae), a New Crotonoid Genus from West Tropical Africa long hidden within Croton},
year = {2016},
keywords = {Karima, Euphorbiaceae, Croton, Cronotoideae, W Africa},
doi = {},
url = {http://},
pmid = {},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
volume = {},
number = {},
pages = {},
abstract = {Croton scarciesii (Euphorbiaceae-Crotonoideae), a rheophytic shrub from West Africa, is shown to have been misplaced in Croton for 120 years, having none of the diagnostic characters of that genus, but rather a set of characters present in no known genus of the family. Pollen analysis shows that the new genus Karima belongs to the inaperturate crotonoid group. Analysis of a concatenated dataset combining trnL-F and part of rbcL, positioned the genus Neoholstia from south eastern tropical Africa as sister to Karima in a well supported clade comprised of genera of subtribes Grosserineae and Neoboutonieae in subclade C2 of the inaperturate crotonoid genera. Several morphological characters support the relationship of Karima with Neoholstia, yet separation is merited by numerous characters usually associated with generic rank in Euphorbiaceae. Quantitative ecological data and a conservation assessment supplement illustrations and descriptions of the taxa.}
}
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Citation title: "Discovering Karima (Euphorbiaceae), a New Crotonoid Genus from West Tropical Africa long hidden within Croton".
