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<mods:title>A new species of Hibiscus (Malvaceae, Malvoideae) from Guyana</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Dorr, Laurence J.</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="9A2A71E0-1637-59F3-B289-1EA5185BF015" authority="Dorr" authorityName="Dorr" authorityYear="2022" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Malvaceae" genus="Hibiscus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Hibiscus marioniae" order="Malvales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="marioniae" status="sp. nov.">Hibiscus marioniae Dorr</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Hibiscus marioniae Dorr, sp. nov. A habit B detail of calyx showing vestiture C flower showing corolla, calyx, and involucellar bracts D seeds lateral views E seed showing hilum (A-E from Jansen-Jacobs et al. 6011)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.214.91586.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/772343" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Dorr" authorityYear="2022" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Malvaceae" genus="Hibiscus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Hibiscus marioniae" order="Malvales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="marioniae">
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Dorr differs from
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Fryxell in having elliptic (versus ovate) leaf blades with cuneate (versus cordate to truncate and often asymmetrical) bases, a crenulate (versus coarsely toothed) margin, and long acuminate (versus acute) apices; more numerous (12 versus 8) and narrower (ca. 1.0 versus (2.0-)3.0-6.0 mm broad) involucellar bracts that are very slightly spathulate (versus distinctly spathulate, broadly lanceolate or imperfectly stipitate-peltate); and glabrous (versus minutely scaberulous) seeds.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 1.</emphasis>
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Dorr, sp. nov.
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habit
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detail of calyx showing vestiture
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flower showing corolla, calyx, and involucellar bracts
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seeds lateral views
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seed showing hilum (
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from
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).
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<typeStatus>Type</typeStatus>
.
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<collectingCountry name="Guyana">Guyana</collectingCountry>
. [
<collectingRegion country="Guyana" name="Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo">Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo</collectingRegion>
]: Upper
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<materialsCitation collectingDate="1999-09-20" collectorName="M. J. Jansen-Jacobs, B. J. H. ter Welle, P. P. Haripersaud, O. Muller, M. van der Zee" country="Essequibo" county="Region" elevation="450" latitude="3.1333334" location="Spider Mountains" longLatPrecision="1307" longitude="-58.533333" municipality="Rewa River" specimenCount="1" typeStatus="holotype">
<collectingCountry name="Guyana">Essequibo</collectingCountry>
<collectingCounty>Region</collectingCounty>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Rewa River</collectingMunicipality>
,
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,
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="058" direction="west" minutes="32" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-58.533333">058°32'W</geoCoordinate>
,
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<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.5" metricValueMax="5.0" metricValueMin="4.0" unit="m" value="450.0" valueMax="500.0" valueMin="400.0">400-500 m</elevation>
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alt.,
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(fl, fr),
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<collectorName>M.J. Jansen-Jacobs</collectorName>
,
<collectorName>B.J.H. ter Welle</collectorName>
,
<collectorName>P.P. Haripersaud</collectorName>
,
<collectorName>O. Muller</collectorName>
&amp;
<collectorName>M. van der Zee</collectorName>
6011
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(
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: U barcode 0067247!; isotypes: NY!, TEX barcode 00568796 as image!)
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Suffrutescent herbs, to 50 cm tall; stems woody at base, unarmed, sparingly to moderately pubescent, with appressed 4-8-armed stellate hairs ca. 1 mm in diameter. Leaves simple, elliptic, 8.5-13.0
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2.5-4.0 cm, base cuneate, palmately 3-nerved at base, midrib and 2° nerves slightly raised above, prominent below, margin crenulate, apex long acuminate, leaf blades sparingly pubescent above and below with yellowish, bifurcate and stellate hairs, stellate hairs 4-8-armed, arms ca. 1.0 mm long, erect, bifurcate hairs more frequent below than above; petioles 1.5-2.5 cm long, with a ventral line of short whitish stellate-hairs and more conspicuous and abundant yellowish stellate hairs, the latter hairs not in a line and denser distally; stipules almost linear, ca. 1.0-2.0 mm long, caducous. Flowers solitary or paired in leaf axils toward apices of stems; pedicels 3.5-7.0 cm long, not articulated, pubescent with
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appressed stellate hairs and more conspicuous, 4-8-armed stellate hairs with arms to 2.0 mm long. Bracts of involucel 12, distinct, 10.0-15.0
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ca. 0.75-1.0 mm, not or scarcely exceeding united portion of calyx at anthesis, very slightly spathulate apically, plane, with simple, bifurcate, and stellate hairs, hairs or arms of stellate hairs to 2.0 mm long. Calyx 5-lobed, united ca. half way, lobes 1.0-1.2
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0.5-0.6 cm at anthesis, broadly triangular, apices acute, papery, light green with 3 darker but not thickened veins, nectaries absent, outer surface with yellowish simple and mostly 4-armed stellate hairs, arms to 2.0 mm long, inner surface with a few scattered simple hairs, accrescent in fruit, turning blackish (on herbarium specimens, at least), lobes expanding to 2.0-2.5
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1.2 cm. Petals ca. 2.5 cm long (only one flower seen and not dissected), white (fide
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Jansen-Jacobs et al. 6011</emphasis>
), corolla shape unknown. Staminal column shorter than the petals; anthers purple (fide
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Jansen-Jacobs et al. 6011</emphasis>
). Styles and stigmas not seen. Capsules enclosed in accrescent calyces, 5-locular, chartaceous, capsule walls undulate and molded around individual seeds, walls covered with minute whitish hairs and more conspicuous yellowish simple hairs to 2.0 mm long. Seeds ca. 2.0
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2.0 mm, globose-reniform, brownish (the hilum blackish), glabrous.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">The species epithet honors Marion J. Jansen-Jacobs who has contributed greatly to our understanding of the flora of the Guianas as collector, herbarium curator, author, and executive director of the Flora of the Guianas project.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution and ecology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Known only from the type collection, which was made in central Guyana, northeast of the Kanuku Mountains; 400-500 m alt. According to information on the specimen label, the plant was found in an open spot in forest on rock in the &quot;Spider Mountains.&quot; The name of these mountains does not appear in standard gazetteers (
<bibRefCitation author="Stephens, L" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Botany" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B16" refString="Stephens, L, Traylor, Jr MA, 1985. Ornithological gazetteer of the Guianas. Bird Department, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts." title="Ornithological gazetteer of the Guianas. Bird Department, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts." year="1985">Stephens and Traylor 1985</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B1" refString="Anonymous (1993) Gazetteer of Guyana: Names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names, 2nd edn. Defense Mapping Agency, Washington, D.C.">Anonymous 1993</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Guerke, M" journalOrPublisher="6: Liliaceae-Myrsinaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" publicationUrl="https://gazetteer.glsc.gov.gy" refId="B9" refString="2019. . https://gazetteer.glsc.gov.gy" url="https://gazetteer.glsc.gov.gy" year="2019">Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission 2019</bibRefCitation>
) and it may have been a name created by the collectors of the type.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="discussion">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Hibiscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as traditionally treated is a species-rich genus of ca. 200 (
<bibRefCitation author="Hochreutiner, BPG" journalOrPublisher="Annuaire du Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Geneve" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="23 - 191" refId="B10" refString="Hochreutiner, BPG, 1900. Revision du genre Hibiscus. Annuaire du Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Geneve 4: 23 - 191" title="Revision du genre Hibiscus." volume="4" year="1900">Hochreutiner 1900</bibRefCitation>
) to over 400 species (
<bibRefCitation author="Pfeil, BE" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Botany" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" publicationUrl="https://powo.science.kew.org/" refId="B15" refString="2022. . https://powo.science.kew.org/" url="https://powo.science.kew.org/" year="2022">POWO 2022</bibRefCitation>
). It is included in the Hibisceae, a tribe defined by loculicidally dehiscent (
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) fruit, lack of gossypol glands, 5-toothed staminal column apex, styles usually apically branching, stigmas usually terminal, and style branches equal in number to the carpels (
<bibRefCitation author="Pfeil, BE" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Botany" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="333 - 350" publicationUrl="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3093875" refId="B14" refString="Pfeil, BE, Brubaker, CL, Craven, LA, Crisp, MD, 2002. Phylogeny of Hibiscus and the tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae) using chloroplast DNA sequences of ndhF and the rpl16 intron. Systematic Botany 27: 333 - 350, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3093875" title="Phylogeny of Hibiscus and the tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae) using chloroplast DNA sequences of ndhF and the rpl 16 intron." url="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3093875" volume="27" year="2002">Pfeil et al. 2002</bibRefCitation>
). Molecular data, however, suggest that the traditional concept of
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that is based on morphology created a
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paraphyletic genus (
<bibRefCitation author="Pfeil, BE" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Botany" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="333 - 350" publicationUrl="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3093875" refId="B14" refString="Pfeil, BE, Brubaker, CL, Craven, LA, Crisp, MD, 2002. Phylogeny of Hibiscus and the tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae) using chloroplast DNA sequences of ndhF and the rpl16 intron. Systematic Botany 27: 333 - 350, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3093875" title="Phylogeny of Hibiscus and the tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae) using chloroplast DNA sequences of ndhF and the rpl 16 intron." url="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3093875" volume="27" year="2002">Pfeil et al. 2002</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04024" author="Pfeil, BE" journalOrPublisher="Australian Systematic Botany" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="49 - 60" refId="B13" refString="Pfeil, BE, Crisp, MD, 2005. What to do with Hibiscus? A proposed nomenclatural resolution for a large and well known genus of Malvaceae and comments on paraphyly. Australian Systematic Botany 18 (1): 49 - 60, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04024" title="What to do with Hibiscus? A proposed nomenclatural resolution for a large and well known genus of Malvaceae and comments on paraphyly." url="https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04024" volume="18" year="2005">Pfeil and Crisp 2005</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1600/036364408784571653" author="Koopman, M" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Botany" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="364 - 374" refId="B12" refString="Koopman, M, Baum, DA, 2008. Phylogeny and biogeography of tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae) on Madagascar. Systematic Botany 33 (2): 364 - 374, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1600/036364408784571653" title="Phylogeny and biogeography of tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae) on Madagascar." url="https://doi.org/10.1600/036364408784571653" volume="33" year="2008">Koopman and Baum 2008</bibRefCitation>
), which has other tribes (
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and Malvavisceae) and other genera of Hibisceae nested within it. Infrageneric classification of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Hibiscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also has been problematic (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04024" author="Pfeil, BE" journalOrPublisher="Australian Systematic Botany" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="49 - 60" refId="B13" refString="Pfeil, BE, Crisp, MD, 2005. What to do with Hibiscus? A proposed nomenclatural resolution for a large and well known genus of Malvaceae and comments on paraphyly. Australian Systematic Botany 18 (1): 49 - 60, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04024" title="What to do with Hibiscus? A proposed nomenclatural resolution for a large and well known genus of Malvaceae and comments on paraphyly." url="https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04024" volume="18" year="2005">Pfeil and Crisp 2005</bibRefCitation>
) with unresolved conflicts between the sectional classifications based on morphology proposed by
<bibRefCitation author="de Candolle, AP" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B2" refString="de Candolle, AP, 1824. Malvaceae. Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 1. Treuttel &amp; Wuertz, Paris, 427-474." title="Malvaceae. Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 1. Treuttel &amp; Wuertz, Paris, 427 - 474." year="1824">de Candolle (1824)</bibRefCitation>
,
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,
<bibRefCitation author="Guerke, M" journalOrPublisher="6: Liliaceae-Myrsinaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B8" refString="Guerke, M, 1892. Malvaceae II. In: Martius CFP von (Ed.) Flora Brasiliensis 12(3). Frid. Fleischer, Lipsiae [Leipzig], 457-585, tt. 79-114." title="Malvaceae II. In: Martius CFP von (Ed.) Flora Brasiliensis 12 (3). Frid. Fleischer, Lipsiae [Leipzig], 457 - 585, tt. 79 - 114." year="1892">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Gürke">Guerke</normalizedToken>
(1892)
</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Hochreutiner, BPG" journalOrPublisher="Annuaire du Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Geneve" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="23 - 191" refId="B10" refString="Hochreutiner, BPG, 1900. Revision du genre Hibiscus. Annuaire du Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Geneve 4: 23 - 191" title="Revision du genre Hibiscus." volume="4" year="1900">Hochreutiner (1900)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Ulbrich, E" editor="Engler, A" journalOrPublisher="Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="368 - 408" refId="B17" refString="Ulbrich, E, 1921. Malvaceae. In: Engler, A, Ed., Die Vegetation der Erde 9(3, 2). Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig: 368 - 408" title="Malvaceae." volumeTitle="Die Vegetation der Erde 9 (3, 2)." year="1921">Ulbrich (1921)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="van Borssum Waalkes, J" journalOrPublisher="Blumea" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 213" refId="B18" refString="van Borssum Waalkes, J, 1966. Malesian Malvaceae revised. Blumea 14: 1 - 213" title="Malesian Malvaceae revised." volume="14" year="1966">van Borssum Waalkes (1966)</bibRefCitation>
, and
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. This makes assigning
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. marioniae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to a section problematic.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Morphologically,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Hibiscus marioniae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is most similar to
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. amazonicus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="amazonicus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. amazonicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The two species share unarmed stems, an involucel comprised of distinct bracts, a papery or chartaceous 5-fid calyx that is ca. half-divided and accrescent in fruit, and a staminal column shorter than the petals. When
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43921984145103" author="Fryxell, PA" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B4" refString="Fryxell, PA, 1984. A new species of Hibiscus from the Amazon Basin. Acta Amazonica 14(suppl 1-2): 101-103. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43921984145103" title="A new species of Hibiscus from the Amazon Basin. Acta Amazonica 14 (suppl 1 - 2): 101 - 103." url="https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43921984145103" year="1984">Fryxell (1984)</bibRefCitation>
described
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. amazonicus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="amazonicus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. amazonicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, he compared it to three other species found in South America (
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. dimidiatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="dimidiatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. dimidiatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Schrank,
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. sororius" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="sororius">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. sororius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
L., and
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. spathulatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="spathulatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. spathulatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Garcke) and stated they formed a natural grouping or alliance, but he refrained from naming this group. It appears that Fryxell made the connection to this group because as stated in his protologue,
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. amazonicus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="amazonicus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. amazonicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
keyed out (somewhat ambiguously) in
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(1892)
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and
<bibRefCitation author="Kearney, TH" journalOrPublisher="Leaflets of Western Botany" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="161 - 168" refId="B11" refString="Kearney, TH, 1957. A tentative key to the South American species of Hibiscus. Leaflets of Western Botany 8 (7): 161 - 168" title="A tentative key to the South American species of Hibiscus." volume="8" year="1957">Kearney (1957)</bibRefCitation>
either to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. sororius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. verbasciformis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="verbasciformis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. verbasciformis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(≡
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. spathulatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="spathulatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. spathulatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Morphologically, especially in vestiture, these three species are very similar to each other, and they only can be distinguished easily by the shape of their involucellar bracts.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Earlier,
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had made
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Hibiscus sororius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which also occurs in the West Indies and Mexico, the type and sole member of
<taxonomicName authority="Grisb." lsidName="H. subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Trionastrum">H. sect. Trionastrum Grisb.</taxonomicName>
He categorized this section as having distinct involucellar bracts that are apically enlarged, a 5-fid ventricose calyx, and glabrous seeds. While
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. amazonicus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="amazonicus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. amazonicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. marioniae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. spathulatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="spathulatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. spathulatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
could be placed in this section, the cordate-ovate involucellar bracts of the closely allied
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. dimidiatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="dimidiatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. dimidiatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the puberulous or hirtellous seeds of
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. spathulatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="spathulatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. spathulatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. dimidiatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="dimidiatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. dimidiatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, respectively, would require modification of
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circumscription of his monotypic section.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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(1892)
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overlooked
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when he revised the Brazilian species of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Hibiscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and he placed
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. sororius" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="sororius">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. sororius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. dimidiatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="dimidiatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. dimidiatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. spathulatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="spathulatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. spathulatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
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(Mill.) DC. (≡
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), which he defined by involucellar bracts subulate-falciform, setaceous, linear, lanceolate, ovate, spathulate, or dilated apically but not bifurcate, and calyx not inflated with eglandular lobes. These characters, especially the negative or absent ones, seem to have been selected to set this section apart from
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Furcaria">sect. Furcaria</taxonomicName>
DC. Nonetheless, little seems to separate
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from
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Hibiscus">sect. Hibiscus</taxonomicName>
apart from the calyx being ventricose (i.e., swollen or distended) in the former and not inflated in the latter. Also, the seeds of
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Hibiscus">sect. Hibiscus</taxonomicName>
are either glabrous or pubescent but without the distinctive cotton-like hairs found in
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Bombicella">sect. Bombicella</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.2307/25027717" author="Fryxell, PA" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Botany Monographs" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 522" refId="B5" refString="Fryxell, PA, 1988. Malvaceae of Mexico. Systematic Botany Monographs 25: 1 - 522, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/25027717" title="Malvaceae of Mexico." url="https://doi.org/10.2307/25027717" volume="25" year="1988">Fryxell (1988)</bibRefCitation>
later recognized both
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Hibiscus">sect. Hibiscus</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Trionastrum">sect. Trionastrum</taxonomicName>
in his treatment of the Mexican species of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Hibiscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and placed
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. sororius" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="sororius">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. sororius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Trionastrum">sect. Trionastrum</taxonomicName>
but said nothing about the other South American allies of this species, presumably because they do not occur in Mexico.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<bibRefCitation author="Hochreutiner, BPG" journalOrPublisher="Annuaire du Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Geneve" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="23 - 191" refId="B10" refString="Hochreutiner, BPG, 1900. Revision du genre Hibiscus. Annuaire du Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Geneve 4: 23 - 191" title="Revision du genre Hibiscus." volume="4" year="1900">Hochreutiner (1900)</bibRefCitation>
in his revision of
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Malvaceae" genus="Hibiscus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Hibiscus" order="Malvales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Hibiscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
had a very different assessment of the relationships of the three species that
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43921984145103" author="Fryxell, PA" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B4" refString="Fryxell, PA, 1984. A new species of Hibiscus from the Amazon Basin. Acta Amazonica 14(suppl 1-2): 101-103. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43921984145103" title="A new species of Hibiscus from the Amazon Basin. Acta Amazonica 14 (suppl 1 - 2): 101 - 103." url="https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43921984145103" year="1984">Fryxell (1984)</bibRefCitation>
later thought to be allied with
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. amazonicus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="amazonicus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. amazonicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation author="Hochreutiner, BPG" journalOrPublisher="Annuaire du Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Geneve" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="23 - 191" refId="B10" refString="Hochreutiner, BPG, 1900. Revision du genre Hibiscus. Annuaire du Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Geneve 4: 23 - 191" title="Revision du genre Hibiscus." volume="4" year="1900">Hochreutiner (1900)</bibRefCitation>
, who also overlooked
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Trionastrum">H. sect. Trionastrum</taxonomicName>
, placed
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. sororius" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="sororius">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. sororius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Spatula">sect. Spatula</taxonomicName>
Hochr., which he defined by its apically dilated involucellar bracts and glabrous seeds;
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. dimidiatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="dimidiatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. dimidiatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Trichospermum">sect. Trichospermum</taxonomicName>
Hochr. (=
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Hibiscus">sect. Hibiscus</taxonomicName>
); and
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. spathulatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="spathulatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. spathulatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(as
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. verbasciformis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="verbasciformis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. verbasciformis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) in
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Trionum">sect. Trionum</taxonomicName>
DC. He clearly was unhappy with his sectional placement of
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. spathulatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="spathulatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. spathulatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
since he acknowledged that it was the only species that he included in
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Trionum">sect. Trionum</taxonomicName>
with lanceolate bracts and deeply lobed calyces.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
No members of
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Malvaceae" genus="Hibiscus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Hibiscus subsp. sect." order="Malvales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="section" section="Trionastrum">Hibiscus sect. Trionastrum</taxonomicName>
(or
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Malvaceae" genus="Hibiscus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="subsp. sect." order="Malvales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="section" section="Spatula">sect. Spatula</taxonomicName>
) were included in the analysis of
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04024" author="Pfeil, BE" journalOrPublisher="Australian Systematic Botany" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="49 - 60" refId="B13" refString="Pfeil, BE, Crisp, MD, 2005. What to do with Hibiscus? A proposed nomenclatural resolution for a large and well known genus of Malvaceae and comments on paraphyly. Australian Systematic Botany 18 (1): 49 - 60, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04024" title="What to do with Hibiscus? A proposed nomenclatural resolution for a large and well known genus of Malvaceae and comments on paraphyly." url="https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04024" volume="18" year="2005">Pfeil and Crisp (2005</bibRefCitation>
: table 2). However, given that
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. marioniae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="marioniae">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. marioniae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and its presumed relatives have distinct involucellar bracts and non-inflated calyces, these species will probably be found to belong to the
<normalizedToken originalValue="“/Euhibiscus”">&quot;/Euhibiscus&quot;</normalizedToken>
clade, a rank free clade recognized by
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that contains
<taxonomicName lsidName="subsp. sect." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="section" section="Hibiscus">sect. Hibiscus</taxonomicName>
. Thus, irrespective of how the paraphyly in
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Malvaceae" genus="Hibiscus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Hibiscus" order="Malvales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Hibiscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the Hibisceae eventually is resolved taxonomically,
<taxonomicName lsidName="H. marioniae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="marioniae">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. marioniae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
likely will remain in or closely allied to
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Malvaceae" genus="Hibiscus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Hibiscus" order="Malvales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Hibiscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
s.str.
</paragraph>
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