Re-circumscription of the mimosoid genus Entada including new combinations for all species of the phylogenetically nested Elephantorrhiza (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade)
Author
O'Donnell, Shawn A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0731-7425
Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE 1 8 ST, UK
shawn.odonnell@cantab.net
Author
Ringelberg, Jens J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0567-5210
Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
Author
Lewis, Gwilym P.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2599-4577
Accelerated Taxonomy Department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AE, UK
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PhytoKeys
2022
2022-08-22
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99
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.205.76790
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.205.76790
1314-2003-205-99
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Elephantorrhiza woodii var. pubescens (E. Phillips) S.A.
O'Donnell
& G.P. Lewis
comb. nov.
Type
.
SOUTH AFRICA
.
Natal
,
Estcourt District
, near
Little Tugela
,
1219 m
alt.,
J. Medley-Wood
2867
(
holotype
: NH [NH0002867-0])
.
Basionym.
Elephantorrhiza woodii E. Phillips var. pubescens
E. Phillips, Bothalia 1: 193. 1923.
Description.
Stems, petiole, leaf rachis, pinna rachis and inflorescence peduncle and rachis pubescent.
Distribution.
South Africa (Natal), Lesotho.
Habitat and ecology.
In grassland.
Note.
Grobler (2012
, p. 151) viewed stem pubescence in
E. woodii
as an unreliable basis for distinguishing these two varieties.