Open AccessAn analysis and revision of Cyclamen L. with emphasis on subgenus Gyrophoebe O. Schwarz
Author(s) -
CLENNETT J. CHRIS B.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
botanical journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.872
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1095-8339
pISSN - 0024-4074
DOI - 10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.00034.x
Subject(s) - primulaceae , subgenus , biology , taxon , cladistics , botany , genus , taxonomy (biology) , phylogenetics , biochemistry , gene
Studies in the areas of comparative morphology and palynology of the genus Cyclamen L. (Primulaceae) are outlined, and used in combination with observations and analyses of past works and publications and of field data (gathered by the Cyclamen Society and others) to generate new data sets. These are subject to cladistic parsimony analysis for the entire genus, and to phenetic ordinal analysis for subgenus Gyrophoebe O.Schwarz, to reach a conclusion on the validity of the latter classification, and the separation of taxa within it. A phylogeny and subgeneric reclassification is proposed with the reinstatement of Cyclamen elegans Boiss. & Buhse at species level based on the results gathered. © 2002 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 2002, 138 , 473–481.