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<mods:titleid="D94CA70C022B0975D2047F65D126489F">A taxonomic revision of Keraunea, including three new species and its phylogenetic realignment with Ehretiaceae (Boraginales)</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="BB475986A5555D24655DA5E32C10A78E">Botany Department, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="ACF2C9036EE0F2372D8C8626C69C2BAA">Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil & Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil</mods:affiliation>
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; calyx lobes united in a tube or distinct nearly to the base, tubular to campanulate; aestivation imbricate (mostly quincuncial); corolla sympetalous, generally tubular with spreading lobes, rotate, or campanulate to urceolate, white, red or blue (
P.Browne); stamens 5, the filaments generally adnate to the corolla tube at least at the base, sometimes puberulent at the point of insertion, the anthers usually exerted; gynoecium bicarpellate, the ovary uni- to tetralocular from secondary subdivision, style terminal, the stigma clavate to capitate with 1(2) branches; nectar disc usually present at base of the ovary. Fruits drupaceous, often drying and separating into two two-seeded pyrenes, or 4 1-seeded pyrenes or schizocarps, or 4 nutlets.
is a broadly distributed family found throughout tropical and subtropical Asia, Australia, sub-Saharan Africa. In the Americas, its distribution encompasses the eastern United States, Florida, Central America, the Caribbean, the Guyana shield and the Andes. In Brazil, the
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<figureCitationid="E244DFCB26CF091B04E6AF89222E929D"captionStart="Figure 1"captionStartId="F1"captionText="Figure 1. RAxML bootstrap tree based on nuclear ribosomal (ITS) and plastid (matK, rbcL, trnL-F) DNA sequence data resolving Keraunea within the Ehretiaceae. Node labels indicate nodes with bootstrap support values above 50. Inset phylogram (bottom left) indicates branch lengths. Outgroup taxa from representatives of other Boraginales families are in light grey. Illustrations are (top to bottom): Keraunea, Halgania, Ehretia, Bourreria, Rochefortia and Tiquilia."figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.219.101779.figure1"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/813025"pageId="0"pageNumber="145">1</figureCitation>
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to include species with a few-flowered corymb inflorescence structure and where the flower and later fruit are inserted at the centre of an accrescent bracteole. To our knowledge, these characters are unique among not just the
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