| Doyleanthus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Myristicaceae |
| Genus: | Doyleanthus Sauquet |
| Species: | D. arillata |
| Binomial name | |
| Doyleanthus arillata Capuron ex Sauquet | |
Doyleanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Myristicaceae. The only species is Doyleanthus arillata. [1]
Its native range is Madagascar. [1]
Similar in form to Mauloutchia in all vegetative and inflorescence characters, but unambiguously different in its monocyclic androecium (multiple stamens) with 3–4 strictly sessile anthers. It has a fully developed, deeply laciniate aril (seed coating), a condition otherwise found only in Madagascar in Mauloutchia heckelii , from which Doyleanthus may easily be distinguished by its unclustered, pedicellate flowers as well as its androecium characters. [2]
French botanist René Capuron (1921 – 1971) first collected and described the plant (and placed it in the Mauloutchia family) and it was published after his early death in 'Contribution à l'étude de la flore forestière de Madagascar' – A. Haematodendron, genre nouveau de Myristicaceae. Adansonia, Série 2 Vol.12 on pages 375–379 in 1972. Later, another French botanist Hervé Sauquet, revised the plants found in Madagascar, and using phylogenetic analysis and he made a new genus. The genus of Doyleanthus is in honour of James A. Doyle (born 1943), American botanist and palaeontologist at the University of California, Davis. [2] [3] It was then published in Amer. J. Bot. Vol. 90 on page 1304 in 2003. [1] [2]
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