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Citation for Study 10741

About Citation title: "Henrietteeae (Melastomataceae): A new Neotropical berry-fruited tribe.".
About Study name: "Henrietteeae (Melastomataceae): A new Neotropical berry-fruited tribe.".
About This study is part of submission 10731 (Status: Published).

Citation

Penneys D.S., Michelangeli F., Judd W., & Almeda F. 2010. Henrietteeae (Melastomataceae): A new Neotropical berry-fruited tribe. Systematic Botany, 35(4).

Authors

  • Penneys D.S. (submitter) Phone 415-379-5389
  • Michelangeli F.
  • Judd W.
  • Almeda F.

Abstract

With nearly 2000 species, all restricted to the Neotropics, Miconieae represent the largest radiation within the Melastomataceae. Generic limits and relationships within the tribe have long been contested. Our molecular phylogenetic analyses of the tribe, based on sequences of nrITS and ndhF, resulted in consistent support for a clade comprising Bellucia, Loreya, Henriettea, and Henriettella, which is neither nested within nor sister to the Miconieae. Furthermore, and based upon a series of presumably synapomorphic anatomical and morphological characters, e.g., megastyloid crystals, absence of both medullary and cortical vascular bundles, plinerved leaves, axillary or cauliflorous inflorescences, we consider three additional genera, Kirkbridea, Llewelynia, and Myriaspora, to belong to this clade, a newly recognized tribe, Henrietteeae. These seven genera had formerly been assigned to the Miconieae based on their having exappendiculate anthers (except Kirkbridea) and berry fruits. Henriettella and Llewelynia are relegated to synonymy under Henriettea (25 new combinations are made under that genus), and Loreya and Myriaspora are synonymized under Bellucia (with nine new combinations under that genus). A description of Henrietteeae along with a key to and brief descriptions of its constituent genera are provided, in addition to necessary new combinations.

Keywords

Henrietteeae, Melastomataceae, nrITS, ndhF

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