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<mods:title>Taxonomic revision of Rochefortia Sw. (Ehretiaceae, Boraginales)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Irimia, Ramona-Elena</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Gottschling, Marc</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2016</mods:date>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7720</mods:identifier>
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<taxonomicName authority="Britton" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia bahamensis" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bahamensis">Rochefortia bahamensis Britton</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia bahamensis" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bahamensis">Rochefortia bahamensis</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia bahamensis" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bahamensis">Rochefortia bahamensis</taxonomicName>
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Britton, Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 5: 317. 1907.
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" infraspecific-rank="subsp." kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia cuneata" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="subspecies" species="cuneata" subspecies="bahamensis">Rochefortia cuneata subsp. bahamensis</taxonomicName>
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(Britton) G.Klotz, Revista Jard. Bot. Nac. Univ. Habana 3: 103. 1982.-TYPE: Caribbean, Commonwealth of The Bahamas. San Salvador [
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Watling’s">Watling's</normalizedToken>
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] Island, scrub lands near Lighthouse (Mar 13, 1907), N.L. Britton & C.F. Millspaugh 6167 (♀ fl) (holotype: NY: 111152! isotype: F-51163!).
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Description</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Shrubs or small trees up to 1.5-4.5 m tall, galls absent; twig indument puberulent, trichomes simple; bark greyish white to brown, longitudinally fissured, scaly, wood very brittle; thorns 0.3-0.8 cm long, slender, distally somewhat acute, simple, scattered, alternate, axillary or rarely terminal, sericeous. Leaves fasciculate, rarely alternate (Correll 45046: US!, Correll & Wasshausen 46731: US!); petiole 0.5-1.2 cm long, hirsute through pubescent or glabrous; blade 0.7-5.1 cm long, 0.5-2.8 cm wide, obovate, widely obovate or very widely obovate through orbicular (particularly distal immature leaves), coriaceous, primary vein prominent, sometimes with scattered trichomes, secondary veins 3-8, tertiary veins arcuate; base cuneate or rounded; apex rounded, emarginate, obcordate or retuse, rarely cleft; adaxial surface glabrescent, sometimes distally cilliate, bright, with dense cystolith-like structures in epidermal cells, abaxial surface glabrous, occasionally with simple, scattered trichomes, immature leaves sometimes barbellate. Inflorescence axillary, branching sympodial, branches relatively slender, hirsute, pedicels 0.05-0.30 cm long. Calyx 0.35-0.45 cm long, coriaceous, hirsute outside, glabrous inside, lobes 0.35-0.40 cm long, 0.40-0.43 cm wide, divided from the base, ovate to broadly ovate, apex acute, margin strigose, glabrous inside with a tuft of trichomes in upper part of lobes. Corolla 0.50-0.70 cm long, yellow or white-greenish, sometimes fragrant, membranaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, tube 0.20-0.25 cm long, funnel-shaped, lobes 0.50-0.60 cm long, oblong or obtuse, glabrous, rarely with trichomes at margin. Anthers of male flower 0.45-0.50 cm long, oblong, filaments 0.35-0.45 cm long, glabrous, adnate to corolla tube for 0.10-0.12 cm, pollen present, tricolporate; female flower unknown. Ovary of male flower subglobose, 0.15-0.18 cm long, stylodia 2, divided in distal part, branches 0.10-0.12 cm long, hirsute. Fruit 0.40-0.50 cm tall, 0.40-0.60 cm wide, globose, red at maturity; pyrene 0.37-0.40 cm tall, 0.26-0.30 cm wide, 0.12-0.20 cm deep, abaxial surface cutate.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Distribution</paragraph>
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Across multiple islands of The Bahamas archipelago (Crooked Island, Great Exuma, Inagua, Long Island, Mayaguana, San Salvador) and putatively also in western Cuba (Pinar del
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Río">Rio</normalizedToken>
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, Havana) in scrub lands, rocky coppice hills and thicket edges, at sea level or slightly above (symbol "▲" in Fig. 3).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Ecology</paragraph>
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Flowering
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Feb–Mar">Feb-Mar</normalizedToken>
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,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Oct–Dec">Oct-Dec</normalizedToken>
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; fruiting
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Dec–Jan">Dec-Jan</normalizedToken>
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, Oct.
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" type="taxon discussion">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Taxon discussion</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia bahamensis" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bahamensis">Rochefortia bahamensis</taxonomicName>
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is an abundant and morphologically very consistent species in The Bahamas archipelago characterised by the predominantly circular leaf shapes. Overall similarity, however, is great with
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. barloventensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="barloventensis">R. barloventensis</taxonomicName>
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from the Lesser Antilles, but molecular data indicate that the two species are only distantly related (
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). The geographical disjunction (> 500 km apart) provides further evidence for the distinctiveness of both species.
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The 3 sterile collections from Cuba are tentatively placed under
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. bahamensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="bahamensis">R. bahamensis</taxonomicName>
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and are morphologically somewhat intermediate between
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. bahamensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="bahamensis">R. bahamensis</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. cubensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="cubensis">R. cubensis</taxonomicName>
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. With
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. bahamensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="bahamensis">R. bahamensis</taxonomicName>
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, the plants share the more membranaceous leaf texture, longer and slenderer petioles, orbicular immature leaves and fewer (maximal 4) leaves clustering in a fascicle. However, they exhibit the dichotomously branched thorn pattern of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. cubensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="cubensis">R. cubensis</taxonomicName>
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, and overall leaf size is smaller when compared to the more typical
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. bahamensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="bahamensis">R. bahamensis</taxonomicName>
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. Anyhow, molecular data of Hilger & Urquiola 99/20 (B!) indicate that this specimen is distinct from (morphologically also similar, but geographically distant)
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. acanthophora" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="acanthophora">R. acanthophora</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. cuneata" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="cuneata">R. cuneata</taxonomicName>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Irimia, Ramona Elena" journalOrPublisher="Plant Systematics and Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" pagination="1509 - 1516" title="Strong biogeographic signal in the phylogenetic relationships of Rochefortia Sw. (Ehretiaceae, Boraginales)" volume="301" year="2015">Irimia et al. 2015</bibRefCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" type="notes">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Notes</paragraph>
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Representative specimens examined. - THE BAHAMAS. Crooked Islands: in coppice along stone wall in hills NE of Cabbage Hill,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="22.766666">22°46'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-74.21667">74°13'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], 22 Feb 1975 (♀ fl), Correll 44486 (US!); Exuma: on summit of rocky ridge W of Moss Town, beyond High School,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="23.566668">23°34'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-75.86667">75°52'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], 3 Oct 1980 (♂ fl), Correll & Popenoe 51418 (A! F! MO! US!), 3 Oct 1980 (fr), Correll 51419 (A! US! K! F! F! MO!); Inagua: coppice adjacent to air terminal,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="20.983334">20°59'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-73.666664">73°40'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], 20 Feb 1973 (sterile), Gillis & Proctor 11767 (A!); Mayaguana: by the path to Horse Pond,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="22.333334">22°20'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-72.833336">72°50'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], 28 Nov 1967 (fl), Byrne 429 (A!); San Salvador: edge of coppice along Queen's Highway,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="25.033333">24°62'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-74.45">74°27'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], 21 Nov 1974 (♂ fl), Correll 43864 (F! F! GH! GH! MO!). - CUBA. Pinar del
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Río">Rio</normalizedToken>
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:
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Viñales">Vinales</normalizedToken>
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, Mogote,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="22.616667">22°37'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-83.71667">83°43'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], 9 Mar 1999 (sterile), Hilger & Urquiola s.n. (B! M!); Havana: Marianao,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="23.85">23°51'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-82.5">82°30'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], 23 Oct 1921 (sterile), Ekman 13359 (G! K! US!).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Common names</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">unknown.</paragraph>
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