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RESEARCH ARTICLE

A new subtribal classification of Myrtaceae tribe Chamelaucieae

Barbara L. Rye https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1254-5940 A D , Peter G. Wilson https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8581-318X B , Margaret M. Heslewood https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0100-8023 B , Andrew J. Perkins https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5082-8186 A and Kevin R. Thiele https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6658-6636 A C
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A Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, WA 6983, Australia.

B The National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia.

C School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.

D Corresponding author. Email: barbara.rye@dpaw.wa.gov.au

Australian Systematic Botany 33(2) 191-206 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB19009
Submitted: 29 January 2019  Accepted: 22 August 2019   Published: 5 February 2020

Abstract

A new classification of Myrtaceae tribe Chamelaucieae DC., derived from a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on nr ETS and cp trnK and atpB–rbcL spacer sequences, is presented. Eleven subtribes are recognised, eight of which are new. The currently accepted circumscriptions of subtribes Calytricinae Benth. and ‘Euchamelaucieae Benth.’ (nom. inval.) are retained, with the latter being formally published here as Chamelauciinae Rye & Peter G.Wilson. Subtribe Thryptomeninae Benth. is reduced in size by the creation of the new subtribes Alutinae Rye & Peter G.Wilson and Micromyrtinae Rye & Peter G.Wilson. Subtribe Baeckeinae Schauer is reduced to a single genus, with the excluded genera distributed in the new subtribes Astarteinae Rye & Peter G.Wilson, Hysterobaeckeinae Rye & Peter G.Wilson, Ochrospermatinae Rye & Peter G.Wilson, Rinziinae Rye & Peter G.Wilson and Stenostegiinae Rye & Peter G.Wilson. The history of recognition of the genera and subtribes of Chamelaucieae is outlined and supporting morphological evidence for the new classification discussed.


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