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SUBMITTER: Sakuragui CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5943393 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sakuragui Cassia Mônica CM Calazans Luana Silva Braucks LSB de Oliveira Leticia Loss LL de Morais Érica Barroso ÉB Benko-Iseppon Ana Maria AM Vasconcelos Santelmo S Schrago Carlos Eduardo Guerra CEG Mayo Simon Joseph SJ
PhytoKeys 20180502 98
Philodendron subgenus Meconostigma has been a well-circumscribed group since 1829. Members of this group are easily distinguished by diagnostic morphological characters as well as by a distinct ecology and geographical distribution. Based on molecular, morphological and cytological evidence, we propose the recognition of P. subg. Meconostigma as a distinct genus, <i>Thaumatophyllum</i> Schott. We also present the necessary new combinations, an emended key and some nomenclatural and taxonomic cor ...[more]