A New Species of Croton (Euphorbiaceae) from a Madagascan Lineage Discovered in Coastal Kenya
| Autor: | Paul E. Berry, Guang-Wan Hu, Qing-Feng Wang, Mwadime Nyange, Benjamin W. van Ee, Neng Wei, Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau, Itambo Malombe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine geography geography.geographical_feature_category biology Ecology Lineage (evolution) Plant Science Adenophorus biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Croton 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Archipelago Genetics Biological dispersal Mainland Endemism Clade Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | Systematic Botany. 45:242-248 |
| ISSN: | 0363-6445 |
| DOI: | 10.1600/036364420x15862837791294 |
| Popis: | —Croton kinondoensis, a new species from Kenya, is described and illustrated here with photographs. It is found in the sacred Kaya Kinondo Forest, one of the last remaining coastal forests patches in Kenya. Its morphology and systematic position based on ITS and trnL-F DNA sequence data clearly place it within the Adenophorus Group of Croton, a clade of ca. 15 species otherwise known only from Madagascar and the Comoros Archipelago. Its closest affinities appear to lie with Croton mayottae, from the island of Mayotte, and C. menabeensis, from northwestern Madagascar. This new species likely represents an independent dispersal of Croton from Madagascar to mainland Africa. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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