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Acanthopale
About: Acanthopale is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3 publications have been published within this topic receiving 77 citations.
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TL;DR: Three new species of Acanthaceae, Lepidagathis pseudoaristata Ensermu, Acanthopale aethio-germanica En Sermu, and Rhinacanthus mucronatus Enser Mu, are described from Ethiopia.
Abstract: Three new species of Acanthaceae, Lepidagathis pseudoaristata Ensermu, Acanthopale aethio-germanica Ensermu, and Rhinacanthus mucronatus Ensermu, are described from Ethiopia. The three species are illustrated and their distributions mapped. The three new species are also compared to their presumed closest relatives. L. pseudoaristata is restricted to the Bale and Sidamo Regions, A. aethio-germanica is more widely distributed in Ethiopia occurring in the Kefa, Arsi, Sidamo and Bale Regions, and R. mucronatus is a local endemic restricted to the Borana area in the Sidamo Region. The conservation status of each species is also assessed.
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TL;DR: Five Acanthaceae species originally described in the genus Strobilanthes Blume are formally transferred to the genus Acanthopale C. B. Clarke, following currently accepted generic delimitation in the family.
Abstract: Callmander, M. W. & P. B. Phillipson (2015). The transfer of the Malagasy species of Strobilanthes Blume to Acanthopale C. B. Clarke (Acanthaceae). Candollea 70: 253–256. In English, English and French abstracts. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15553/c2015v702a12 Five Acanthaceae species originally described in the genus Strobilanthes Blume are formally transferred to the genus Acanthopale C. B. Clarke, following currently accepted generic delimitation in the family. The necessary combinations: Acanthopale breviceps (Benoist) Callm. & Phillipson, Acanthopale cuneifolia (Benoist) Callm. & Phillipson, Acanthopale humblotii (Benoist) Callm. & Phillipson, Acanthopale perrieri (Benoist) Callm. & Phillipson and Acanthopale ramiflora (Benoist) Callm. & Phillipson are established.
TL;DR: Corolla morphology has undergone convergent evolution and is therefore likely an inappropriate character for sectional delimitation, contrary to previous use, and Bayesian and parsimony analyses indicate four genera are evolutionarily allied to Ruellia.
Abstract: Phylogenetic relationships among species of the large genus Ruellia (Acanthaceae) have never been studied. Ruellia, with approximately 300 species, is geographically widespread and morphologically diverse. Molecular data for 196 specimens from the nuclear ribosomal ITS region and the chloroplast trnG-trnR region were used to test monophyly of the genus against closely related genera in Ruellieae, to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships among species of Ruellia on a global scale, to re-evaluate previous morphology-based classifications, and to examine the utility of morphological characters, especially corolla morphology, for future sectional delimitation. Bayesian and parsimony analyses indicate four genera are evolutionarily allied to Ruellia. Acanthopale is sister to Ruellia s. l. with strong support. Blechum, Eusiphon, and Polylychnis are nested within Ruellia s. l., and species in Eusiphon and Polylychnis are here formally transferred to Ruellia resulting in the new combinations Ruellia gea...
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