Distephanus

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Distephanus
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D. angulifolius flowers being pollinated by the African veined white butterfly
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Vernonioideae
Tribe: Distephaneae
(S.C.Keeley & H.Rob.) H.Rob. & V.A.Funk (2024)
Genus: Distephanus
Cass. (1819)
Type species
Distephanus populifolius
(Lam.) Cass. [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • AntunesiaO.Hoffm. (1893)
  • GongrothamnusSteetz (1864)
  • NewtoniaO.Hoffm. (1892), nom. illeg.

Distephanus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. [3] It is described by American botanist Harold E. Robinson as having over 40 species [3] and by David Mabberley as having only 34 species. [4] These sources differ sharply in their description of the range of the genus. Robinson has it ranging throughout Africa and occurring also in India and China. Mabberley has it restricted to southeast Africa, Madagascar, and Mauritius. Plants of the World Online accepts 44 species native to sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and south-central China. [5]

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The genus Distephanus consists of trees, shrubs, and vines. The leaves are often trinervate. The flowers are in terminal inflorescences and are usually yellow. The anthers have an appendage called a tail. The base of the style is enlarged.

The name Distephanus is derived from Greek and means "two crowns", a reference to the two whorls of bristles that form the pappus. [6]

The genus Distephanus was established by Alexandre de Cassini in 1817. [7] Cassini described the type species, Distephanus populifolia in 1819. [8] This species had originally been named Conyza populifolia by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1786. [9]

Distephanus has usually been placed in the tribe Vernonieae, but the results of some molecular phylogenetic studies of DNA sequences have cast doubt upon this placement. In one classification of Asteraceae, it was placed in a tritomy consisting of Distephanus, Moquinieae, and Vernonieae. [10] In 2024 Gostel et al. concluded that the genus belonged in its own tribe, Distephaneae. [11]

Distephanus differs from (other) genera in Vernonieae in having yellow flowers as well as in other characters that are less obvious. [12]

Species

44 species are accepted. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Distephanus At: Index Nominum Genericorum In: Regnum Vegetabile. (see External links below).
  2. ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  3. 1 2 Harold E. Robinson. 2007. "Vernonieae" pages 149-174. In: Klaus Kubitzki (series editor); Joachim W. Kadereit and Charles Jeffrey (volume editors). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume VIII. Springer-Verlag: Berlin; Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN   978-3-540-31050-1
  4. ↑ David J. Mabberley. 2008. Mabberley's Plant-Book third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. ISBN   978-0-521-82071-4
  5. 1 2 "Distephanus Cass" . Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  6. ↑ Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names volume II:822. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington, DC;, USA. London, UK. ISBN   978-0-8493-2676-9. (vol. 2). (see External links below).
  7. ↑ Alexandre H.G. de Cassini. 1817. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris. (1817):151.
  8. ↑ Alexandre H.G. de Cassini. 1819. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, ... Strasbourg. edition 2. (F. Cuvier). 19:361.
  9. ↑ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. 1786. Encyclopedie Methodique. Botanique ... Paris. 2(1):87.
  10. ↑ Vicki A. Funk, Alfonso Susanna, Tod F. Stuessy, and Randall J. Bayer. 2009. Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of the Compositae. IAPT (International Association for Plant Taxonomy). ISBN   978-3-9501754-3-1 (see External links below).
  11. ↑ M R Gostel, Benoit Loeuille, Mariana Henriques Santana, Carol L Kelloff, Raymund Chan, Ana Rita Giraldes Simões, Isabel Larridon, Vicki A Funk, Molecular phylogenetics of Distephanus supports the recognition of a new tribe, Distephaneae (Asteraceae), Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024;, boae025, https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae025
  12. ↑ Harold E. Robinson. 1986. "Trinervate leaves, yellow flowers, tailed anthers, and pollen variation in Distephanus Cassini (Vernonieae: Asteraceae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington99(3):493-501.
  13. ↑ H. Rob. & V.A. Funk. 2012. Taxon 61(2): 452
  14. ↑ Norbert Kilian and Anthony G. Miller. 2000. Studies in the Compositae of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra - 5. Distephanus qazmi (Vernonieae, Gymnantheminae), a remarkable new species from the island of Socotra, Yemen. Willdenowia 30(1):83-91.
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