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A new sectional name for the Brazilian tetraploid clade of Drosera subgenus Drosera
Andreas Fleischmann and Paulo Minatel Gonella and Fernando Rivadavia
Carniv. Pl. Newslett. 47(1):4-9
Published 1 February 2018
https://doi.org/10.55360/cpn471.af718
Summary
Historical infrageneric classifications of the genus Drosera L. took into account the external morphology of its species, especially style division, but also data from palynology, trichome morphology and chromosome numbers. Nevertheless, when confronted with the molecular phylogenetic reconstructions, all existing classifications were unsuccessful in circumscribing a monophyletic D. section Drosera, due to the high homoplasy of morphological traits in that section. Hence, a new classification congruent with the phylogeny and based on monophyletic groups became necessary.
Keywords: taxonomy, Drosera sect. Brasiliae, classification, phylogeny, Brazil
Article Citation
Andreas Fleischmann and Paulo Minatel Gonella and Fernando Rivadavia. 2018. A new sectional name for the Brazilian tetraploid clade of Drosera subgenus Drosera. Carniv. Pl. Newslett. 47(1):4-9. https://doi.org/10.55360/cpn471.af718
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