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Chrysojasminum, a new genus for Jasminum sect. Alternifolia (Oleaceae, Jasmineae)
Author(s) -
Enrico Banfi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
natural history sciences/natural history sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2385-0442
pISSN - 2385-0922
DOI - 10.4081/nhs.2014.54
Subject(s) - oleaceae , genus , botany , clade , biology , phylogenetic tree , taxon , genetics , gene
Recent phylogenetic investigations about Jasminum s.l. have shown that species possessing both alternate leaves and yellow flowers (sect. Alternifolia ) constitute a clade (monophylum) that is sister to all the other sections of the genus or even to Jasminum itself plus the American/South African genus Menodora . Such evidence sets the need to revise the generic delimitation of Jasminum by establishing a separate genus for the species belonging to sect. Alternifolia . As a consequence, the new genus Chrysojasminum is here established and the relevant nomenclatural combinations are supplied for fifteen taxa.

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