Towards a Monophyletic Infrageneric Circumscription of Adesmia DC. (Dalbergieae, Leguminosae): a Taxonomic Revision in Adesmia series Adesmia Author Monteiro, Thiago Cobra E Author Iganci, João Ricardo Vieira Author Miotto, Silvia Teresinha Sfoggia Author Simpson, Beryl B. Author Vatanparast, Mohammad Author Lewis, Gwilym P. Author Klitgård, Bente B. Author Pezzini, Flávia Fonseca Author Vargas, Oscar M. Author Fortuna-Perez, Ana Paula text Phytotaxa 2024 2024-03-06 639 1 1 69 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.639.1.1 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.639.1.1 1179-3163 13213359 Adesmia subg. Adesmia ser. Adesmia , Type : Adesmia muricata (Jacq.) DC. ≡ Adesmia subg. Adesmia ser. Muricatae Burkart, Darwiniana 14(2–3): 509–510 (1967a). nom. superfl. illegit. = Adesmia subg. Adesmia ser. Bicolores Burkart, Darwiniana 14(2–3): 515–516 (1967a). Type : Adesmia bicolor (Poir.) DC. syn. nov. = Adesmia subg. Adesmia ser. Subnudae Burkart, Darwiniana 14(2–3): 524–525 (1967a). Type : Adesmia subnuda (A.Gray) Burkart. syn. nov. Unarmed herbs and shrubs, prostrate to erect, some species with adventitious roots from stem branch nodes; hirsute to glabrescent, with tector and glandular hairs present on the stem, stipules, leaves, bracts, pedicels, calyces, and fruits. Stipules free or united at the base, persistent, basifixed. Leaves paripinnate, with 3 to 16 pairs of leaflets; petiole and rachis cylindrical, slightly sulcate on the adaxial surface, or sometimes multisulcate; leaflets opposite to subopposite, hyphodromous to brochidrodromous. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, paniculate or racemose, or sometimes axillary flowers solitary in each leaf axil. Flowers sessile or pedicellate, pedicel erect or recurved after anthesis; bracts one or lacking on axillary solitary flowers; flowers pentamerous, calyx campanulate, with five lobes of similar size, some species with the carinal lobe longer than the others; petals papilionaceous, yellow or orange, unguiculate; the standard petal orbicular to wide-obovate or flabelliform, with or without red nectar guides; wing petals obovate; keel petals falcate, dorsally ciliate; stamens 10, free or sometimes with two or four stamens adnate to the standard petal claw; anthers elliptical to orbicular; gynoecium with a straight ovary. Fruits a lomentum or hemicraspedium, not stipitate, calyx persistent, sometimes embracing the first article of the fruit; articles 2–12. Seeds brownish, gray, or black, orbicular to reniform or discoid, without an aril (except for A. subtropicalis ). Notes —According to the Nomenclatural Code for algae, fungi, and plants ( Turland et al. 2018 ), article 22, the name of the subdivision of a genus that includes the type of the genus is not validly published unless its epithet repeats the generic name unaltered. Considering that Adesmia ser. Muricatae Burkart includes the type species of Adesmia , the name of the series is not validly published. The autonymous Adesmia ser. Adesmia is the correct name.