Research Paper

Notes on the Taxonomic status of Polyalthia malabarica (Bedd.) I. M. Turner (Annonaceae) and a new variety from India

Mohan Alister, Gopalaprabhu Rajkumar, Ahammed Nazarudeen and Alagramam Govindasamy Pandurangan

Published on: 25 July 2017

Page: 305 - 310

DOI: 10.6165/tai.2017.62.305

Abstract

The taxonomic status of Polyalthia malabarica (Bedd.) I. M. Turner is discussed and a variety from Western Ghats of India is newly proposed with taxonomic description and illustration.

Keyword: Annonaceae, India, Kerala, New variety, Polyalthia malabarica var. longipedicellata.

Literature Cited

Beddome, R.H. 1874. Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis. Gantz ,Brothers, Madras, vii + 70 pp., 300 plates.

Blume, C.L. 1830. Flora Javae (Annonaceae). Frank, Brussels, 108 pp.

Chaowasku, T., D.M. Johnson, R.W.J.M. van der Ham and L.W. Chatrou. 2012. Characterization of Hubera (Annonaceae), a new genus segregated from Polyalthia and allied to Miliusa. Phytotaxa 69(1): 33-56.
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.69.1.6View Article Google Scholar

Chaowasku, T., D.M. Johnson, R.W.J.M. van der Ham, and L.W. Chatrou, 2015. Huberantha, a replacement name for Hubera (Annonaceae: Malmeoideae: Miliuseae). Kew Bull. 70(2): 23.
DOI: 10.1007/s12225-015-9571-zView Article Google Scholar

Chaowasku, T., D.C. Thomas, R.W.J.M. van der Ham, E. F. Smet, J.B. Mols. and L.W. Chatrou. 2014. A plastid DNA phylogeny of the tribe Miliuseae: insights into relationships and character evolution in one of the most recalcitrant major clades of Annonaceae. Amer. J. Bot. 101(4): 691-709.
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1300403View Article Google Scholar

Chatrou, L.W., M.D. Pirie, R.H.J. Erkens, T.L.P. Couvreur, K.M. Neubig, J.R. Abbott, J.B. Mols, J.W. Maas, R.M.K. Saunders and M.W. Chase. 2012. A new subfamilial and tribal classification of the pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae informed by molecular phylogenetics. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 169(1): 5-40.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01235.xView Article Google Scholar

Doyle, J.A. and A.Le Thomas. 1994. Cladistic analysis and pollen evolution in Annonaceae. Acta Bot. Gallica 141(2): 149-170.
DOI: 10.1080/12538078.1994.10515148View Article Google Scholar

Hooker, J.D. and T. Thomson. 1855. Flora Indica. Vol. 2. Pamplin, London.
DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.50109View Article

Johnson, D. M. 1989. Revision of Disepalum (Annonaceae). Brittonia 41(4):356-378.
DOI: 10.2307/2807547View Article Google Scholar

Karthikeyan, S., M. Sanjappa and S. Moorthy. 2009. Flowering Plants of India Dicotyledons Vol. 1. (Acanthaceae

Mitra, D. 1993. Annonaceae. pp. 202-307. In: Sharma, B. D., Balakrishnan, N. P., Rao, R. R. & Hajra, P. K. (eds.), Flora of India, Vol. 1. Botanical Survey of India. Calcutta, xiv + 467 pp.

Mohanan, C.N., A.G. Pandurangan and V.S. Raju. 1984. A note on unknown fruits of Phaeanthus malabaricus Bedd. (Annonaceae) - a rare and endemic plant from southern India. J. Econ. Tax. Bot. 5: 399-400.

Mols, J.B. and P.J.A. Ke?ler. 2000. Revision of the genus Phaeanthus (Annonaceae). Blumea 45: 205-233.

Mols, J.B., P.J.A. Ke?ler, S.H. Rogstad, and R.M.K. Saunders. 2008. Reassignment of six Polyalthia species to the new genus Maasia (Annonaceae): molecular and morphological congruence. Syst. Bot. 33(3): 490-494.
DOI: 10.1600/036364408785679752View Article Google Scholar

Nayar, T.S., M. Sibi, and A. Rasiya Beegam. 2014. Flowering Plants of the Western Ghats, India , Vol . I. Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. x + 933 pp.

Richardson, J.E., L.W. Chatrou, J.B. Mols, R. H. J. Erkens and M. D. Pirie 2004. Historical biogeography of two cosmopolitan families of flowering plants: Annonaceae and Rhamnaceae. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London, Series B 359(1450): 1495-1508.
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1537View Article Google Scholar

Saunders, R.M.K., Y.C.F. Su and B. Xue. 2011. Phylogenetic affinities of Polyalthia species (Annonaceae) with columellar-sulcate pollen: enlarging the Madagascan endemic genus Fenerivia. Taxon 60: 1407-1416.

Turner, I.M. 2015. A Conspectus of Indo-Burmese Annonaceae. Nord. J. Bot. 33(3): 257-299.
DOI: 10.1111/njb.00689View Article Google Scholar

Verdcourt, B. 1969. The status of the genus Polyalthia Blume (Annonaceae) in Africa. Adansonia, s?rie 2, 9: 87-94.

Walker, J.W. 1971. Pollen morphology, phytogeography and phylogeny of the Annonaceae. Contributions of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 202:1-131.

Xue, B., Y.C.F. Su, J.B. Mols, P.J.A. Ke?ler and R.M.K. Saunders. 2011. Further fragmentation of the polyphyletic genus Polyalthia (Annonaceae): molecular phylogenetic support for a broader delimitation of Marsypopetalum. Syst. Biod. 9(1): 17-26.
DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2010.542497View Article Google Scholar

Xue, B., Y.C.F. Su, D.C. Thomas and R.M.K. Saunders. 2012. Pruning the polyphyletic genus Polyalthia (Annonaceae) and resurrecting the genus Monoon. Taxon 61(5): 1021-1039.