• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Convergent morphology in Alpinieae (Zingiberaceae): Recircumscribing Amomum as a monophyletic genus
  • Beteiligte: Boer, Hugo de; Newman, Mark; Poulsen, Axel Dalberg; Droop, A. Jane; Fér, Tomáš; Thu Hiền, Lê Thi; Hlavatá, Kristýna; Lamxay, Vichith; Richardson, James E.; Steffen, Karin; Leong-Škorničková, Jana
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 2018
  • Erschienen in: TAXON
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.12705/671.2
  • ISSN: 0040-0262; 1996-8175
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The tropical ginger genus <jats:italic>Amomum</jats:italic> (Zingiberaceae) has always posed challenges for classification based on morphological characters. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies showed <jats:italic>Amomum</jats:italic> to be paraphyletic but limited sampling and absence of the data of the type <jats:italic>Amomum subulatum</jats:italic> made it impossible to resolve the paraphyly and make nomenclatural changes. Here, <jats:italic>Amomum</jats:italic> is further investigated in a multi–marker phylogenetic framework using <jats:italic>matK</jats:italic> and nrITS including multiple accessions of the type, the genus <jats:italic>Elettaria</jats:italic> and additional accessions of <jats:italic>Amomum, Alpinia, Elettariopsis, Geocharis, Geostachys</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Hornstedtia. Amomum</jats:italic> is shown to consist of nine clades and <jats:italic>Alpinia</jats:italic> of six. The genera <jats:italic>Elettaria, Elettariopsis, Plagiostachys</jats:italic>, and species in <jats:italic>Hornstedtia</jats:italic> are nested within these clades. Morphological studies of species previously subsumed in <jats:italic>Amomum</jats:italic> support recognition of new genera that correspond to well–delimited clades in the phylogenetic framework presented here. Recircumscription of the paraphyletic genus <jats:italic>Amomum</jats:italic> facilitates identification and creates nomenclatural stability. Three genera, <jats:italic>Conamomum, Meistera</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Wurfbainia</jats:italic>, are resurrected, and three new genera <jats:italic>Epiamomum, Lanxangia</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Sundamomum</jats:italic> are described, together with a key to the genera and a nomenclatural synopsis placing 384 specific names (incl. all synonyms) into the new generic framework. Of these 129 represent new combinations and 3 are replacement names. Types of <jats:italic>Geocharis</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Geostachys</jats:italic> are designated. Further studies and specific sampling will be needed to resolve other branches of Alpinioideae containing other polyphyletic genera.</jats:p>