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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Re-evaluation of the genus Englerodendron (Leguminosae–Detarioideae), including Isomacrolobium and Pseudomacrolobium

Manuel de la Estrella https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4484-3566 A D , Jan J. Wieringa B , Frans J. Breteler B and Dario I. Ojeda https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8181-4804 C
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A Departamento de Botánica, Ecología y Fisiología Vegetal, Edificio C-4, Celestino Mutis, Campus de Rabanales, Universidad de Córdoba, E-14071 Córdoba, Spain.

B Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Darwinweg 2, NL-2333 CR, Leiden, Netherlands.

C Department of Forest Genetics and Biodiversity, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Høgskoleveien 8, N-1433 Ås, Norway.

D Corresponding author. Email: mdelaestrella@gmail.com

Australian Systematic Botany 32(6) 564-571 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB18075
Submitted: 22 December 2018  Accepted: 8 August 2019   Published: 11 October 2019

Journal Compilation © CSIRO 2019 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

On the basis of a new phylogeny of the Detarioideae, with a particular focus on Englerodendron Harms, Anthonotha P.Beauv. and related genera, the possible options for delimiting monophyletic genera are discussed. As a result, Isomacrolobium Aubrév. & Pellegr. and Pseudomacrolobium Hauman are synonymised under Englerodendron. The following 12 new combinations are formed within the expanded Englerodendron: E. brachyrhachis (Breteler) Estrella & Ojeda, E. explicans (Baill.) Estrella & Ojeda, E. graciliflorum (Harms) Estrella & Ojeda, E. hallei (Aubrév.) Estrella & Ojeda, E. isopetalum (Harms) Breteler & Wieringa, E. lebrunii (J.Léonard) Estrella & Ojeda, E. leptorrhachis (Harms) Estrella & Ojeda, E. mengei (De Wild.) Estrella & Ojeda, E. nigericum (Baker f.) Estrella & Ojeda, E. obanense (Baker f.) Estrella & Ojeda, E. triplisomere (Pellegr.) Estrella & Ojeda and E. vignei (Hoyle) Estrella & Ojeda. A key to identification of the 17 species now recognised within Englerodendron is presented.

Additional keywords: Africa, Anthonotha, classification, generic delimitation, Macrolobium, monophyly.


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