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<mods:title>Taxonomic revision of Rochefortia Sw. (Ehretiaceae, Boraginales)</mods:title>
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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="Sw." class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia cuneata" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cuneata">Rochefortia cuneata Sw.</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia cuneata" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cuneata">Rochefortia cuneata</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia cuneata" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cuneata">Rochefortia cuneata</taxonomicName>
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Prod. 54. 1788Fl. Ind. occid. 552-553. 1797O.P. Swartz s.n.UPS V-6577
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia cuneata" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cuneata">Rochefortia cuneata</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia ovata" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ovata">Rochefortia ovata</taxonomicName>
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Prod. 54. 1788Fl. Ind. occid. 554. 1797O.P. Swartz s.n.UPS V-6578
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia cuneata" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cuneata">Rochefortia cuneata</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ehretiaceae" genus="Rochefortia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rochefortia acrantha" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="acrantha">Rochefortia acrantha</taxonomicName>
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Symb. antill. 5: 479. 1908W.H. Harris 8821NY-111151F-174394GH-97337US-655778W.H. Harris 9073aBM-953141
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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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Shrubs up to 2.5 m tall or small trees up to 8.0 m tall, galls absent; indument variously sericeous through glabrescent, trichomes simple; bark grey light through grey dark or brown, superficial grooves present; thorns 0.7-1.0 cm long, slender, acute, simple or rarely branched, scattered, alternate, axillary or rarely terminal, glabrous. Leaves fasciculate, rarely opposite or alternate; petiole 0.3-0.8 cm long, slender, hirsute or sometimes glabrescent; blade 1.5
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<normalizedToken originalValue="–3.5(–">-3.5(-</normalizedToken>
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6.6) cm long, 0.5
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<normalizedToken originalValue="–3.0(–">-3.0(-</normalizedToken>
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3.5) cm wide, obovate to widely obovate, occasionally orbicular, membranaceous, primary veins prominent, hirsute, secondary veins 4-11, tertiary veins reticulate; base cuneate or rounded; apex rounded, obcordate, sometimes retuse, rarely cleft; adaxial surface brightly glabrescent, with very rare cystoliths-like structures in epidermal cells, ciliate at tips, trichomes emerging from a swelled cystolith cell giving the impression of undulate leaf margin, abaxial surface brightly rugose, with scattered trichomes. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, branches slender, hirsute to glabrescent, pedicel 0.30-0.35 cm long. Calyx 0.35-0.40 cm long, 0.30-0.45 cm wide, coriaceous, hirsute outside, glabrous inside with scattered trichomes at distal blade, lobes 0.30-0.35 cm long, 0.28-0.40 cm wide, divided from the base, obovate, apex rounded. Corolla 0.40-0.55 cm long, membranaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, tube 0.25-0.30 cm long, funnel-shaped, lobes 0.25-0.35 cm long, obovate, slightly cilliate distally. Male flower unknown; anthers of female flower 0.07-0.08 cm long, oblong, filaments 0.03-0.04 cm long, adnate to the corolla tube for further 0.03-0.04 cm, pollen absent. Ovary of female flower globose, 0.25-0.30 cm long, style divided right from the base, branches 0.18-0.25 cm long, stigma cotyliform. Fruit 0.50-0.60 cm tall, 0.50-0.60 cm wide, globose; pyrene 0.45-0.50 cm tall, 0.25-0.30 cm wide, 0.10-0.13 cm deep, abaxial surface cutate.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Distribution</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Jamaica, and presumably (with very few collections: Ekman 4145: K!, Leonard & Leonard: 11714 US!) also Haiti (Tortue Island) and Dominican Republic (La Vega province with a single collection: Zanoni 15680: MO!), on limestone soils at sea coast, in wooded and rocky hills (symbol "◊" in Fig. 3), at altitudes between 0-600 m.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" type="ecology">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Ecology</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Flowering Mar, Jul, Sep, Nov; fruiting Mar, Jul.</paragraph>
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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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Across Caribbean islands,
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. cuneata" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="cuneata">R. cuneata</taxonomicName>
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exhibits amongst the largest leaves that have almost comparable size to those of the mainland species
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. lundellii" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="lundellii">R. lundellii</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. spinosa" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="spinosa">R. spinosa</taxonomicName>
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. The species is most abundant in Jamaica, from where it was also discovered in the late 18th century. Three collections outside Jamaica (one from Dominican Republic and two from Haiti) are morphologically similar to
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. cuneata" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="cuneata">R. cuneata</taxonomicName>
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, but all attempts failed to verify the determination by DNA sequence data (
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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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Olof P.
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names were not properly typified before the present revision (
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<bibRefCitation author="Johnston, I. M." journalOrPublisher="Journal of the Arnold Arboretum" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" pagination="111 - 138" title="Studies in the Boraginaceae, XVIII. Boraginaceae of the southern West Indies" volume="30" year="1949">Johnston 1949</bibRefCitation>
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: 128 indicated that the type originates from Jamaica). There are multiple of his gatherings present in different herbaria, but only UPS holds specimens assigned to both names
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. cuneata" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="cuneata">R. cuneata</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. ovata" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="ovata">R. ovata</taxonomicName>
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(and O.P. Swartz was active in Uppsala). We designate explicitely such as type material here, because it is most likely that O.P. Swartz saw it and used it for his descriptions. Whether more material of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. cuneata" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="cuneata">R. cuneata</taxonomicName>
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(S-R-5496!) and
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. ovata" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="ovata">R. ovata</taxonomicName>
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(B-W5461! C1-8769! LINN-HS471-2! M-196671! SBT12927!) can be considered original material remains conjecture.
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<bibRefCitation author="Lefor, M. W." journalOrPublisher="Univ. of Connecticut, Mansfield" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" title="A revision of the genus Rochefortia Sw. (Boraginaceae)" year="1968">Lefor (1968)</bibRefCitation>
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considered the Willdenow specimen as holotype of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="R. ovata" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" rank="species" species="ovata">R. ovata</taxonomicName>
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, but his rationale is elusive (and has no taxonomic relevance as his thesis is not effectively published: ICN Art. 30.8.).
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<bibRefCitation author="Swartz, Olof" journalOrPublisher="Swederij, Stockholm" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" title="Nova genera & species plantarum seu Prodromus descriptionum vegetabilium maximam partem incognitorum quac sub itinere in Indiam occidentalem annis 1783 - 87" year="1788">Swartz (1788)</bibRefCitation>
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and
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<bibRefCitation author="Swartz, Olof" journalOrPublisher="Erlangae, Germany" pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" title="Flora Indiae Occidentalis aucta atque illustrata; sive, Descriptiones plantarum in prodromo recensitarum." year="1797">Swartz (1797)</bibRefCitation>
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distinguished his two Jamaican species based on differing leaf shapes (i.e., cuneate versus ovate), but we consider that they are in the morphological range of a single species.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Notes</paragraph>
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Representative specimens examined. - JAMAICA. Cockpit: NE of Dolphin Head,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="18.383333">18°23'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-78.166664">78°10'W</geoCoordinate>
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(retroactively inferred), 20 Mar 1908 (♀ fl, fr), Harris 10302 (F! GH! K! P! US!); St. Elizabeth: Kaiser Bauxite area S of Gutters, near pit 101,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="18.083334">18°05'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-77.6">77°36'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], 5 Jul 1955 (♂ fl), Howard & Proctor 14443 (A!); Near Troy:
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="18.233334">18°14'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-77.61667">77°37'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], Sep 1906 (♀ fl), Britton 593 (F!); Negril: near the Lighthouse, sea coast, in rocky woods,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="18.266666">18°16'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-78.35">78°21'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], 10 Mar 1908 (♀ fl, fr), Harris 10232 (BM! F! GH! K! P! US!). - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Santo Domingo: La Vega, SE of Bonao, Flacombridge Domincana mine operation near Loma La Peguera: Arroyo Hato Viejo bw Loma Larga and Loma Fraser, 29 Jul 1981 (fr), Zanoni 15680 (MO!). - HAITI. Tortue Island: Pte Questin, Pte Petit Bois,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="20.416666">20°25'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-72.76667">72°46'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], 28 May 1925 (sterile), Ekman 4145 (K!); N slope, NW of La
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Vallée">Vallee</normalizedToken>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="20.566668">20°34'N</geoCoordinate>
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-72.933334">72°56'W</geoCoordinate>
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[retroactively inferred], 6 Jan 1929 (sterile), Leonard & Leonard 11714 (US!).
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<subSection pageId="0" pageNumber="7720" type="common names">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">Common names</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7720">"green ebony" and "bois vert" in Jamaica.</paragraph>
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