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Transfer of Senecio karelinioides (Asteraceae−Senecioneae) to Synotis based on evidence from morphology, karyology and ITS/ETS sequence data
Author(s) -
Li HuiMin,
Lazkov Georgy A.,
Illarionova Irina D.,
Tong TianJing,
Shao YunYun,
Ren Chen
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
nordic journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1756-1051
pISSN - 0107-055X
DOI - 10.1111/njb.01838
Subject(s) - senecioneae , senecio , biology , asteraceae , botany , karyotype , morphology (biology) , evolutionary biology , zoology , genetics , chromosome , gene
Senecio karelinioides (Asteraceae−Senecioneae) is a species with a rather distinctive habit and an uncertain position in the genus. Based on evidence from macro‐ and micro‐morphology, karyology and ITS and ETS sequence data, we demonstrate that it is actually a member of Synotis and closely related to Synotis atractylidifolia . The relationship is further supported by the approximately unbiased and the Swofford–Olsen–Waddell–Hillis statistical topology tests. We thus transfer the species to Synotis as Synotis karelinioides and place it in the same section as S. atractylidifolia . Senecio sect. Karelinioidei is recombined as Synotis sect. Karelinioidei for this section, and a lectotype of Synotis karelinioides is designated.