Maguirellaria minutifolia Iamonico 2023, comb. nov.
Creators
- 1. Department of Environmental Biology, University of Rome Sapienza, piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 - Rome, Italy duilio. iamonico @ uniroma 1. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5491 - 7568
Description
Maguirellaria minutifolia (Maguire) Iamonico, comb. nov. ≡ Stellaria minutifolia Maguire, Brittonia 10: 30. 1958.
Type (fig. 3):— DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Prov. Benefactor, Saban Nueva, ne of Rio Arriba del Norte at 6200’ alt., edge of river in grassy area, 17 September 1946, Howard & Howard 9019 [holotype: NY00073722! (https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/ al.ap.specimen.ny00073722); isotypes: A00037996! (https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.gh0003701 4?loggedin=true), BM000583340! (https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.gh00037014?loggedin=true), NY00073723! (https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.ny00073723), US00103228! (https://plants.jstor.org/ stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.gh00037014?loggedin=true).
Description: —Plants perennial with stem prostrate, up to 25 cm height, glabrous to glandular, branched, terete. Leaves lanceolate or linear, 1/4–1/2 shorter than the internodes 0.5–1.0 × (1.5–)2.0–4.0(–5.0) mm], sessile or petioled (the basal and middle ones), base cuneate, apex acute, glabrous or glabrescent on the abaxial surface (hairs whitish); stipules short, ovate, glabrescent. Inflorescence of terminal and axillary solitary flowers; pedicel 0.5–3.0 cm long; sepals 5, elliptic-ovate (about 2 × 1.5–1.8 mm), 3-veined, acute to obtuse, green; petals 4, oblanceolate (1.0–1.5 × 3–5 mm long), about 2 times longer than the sepals, bifid (lobes 1–2 mm long), white; fruit about 2 × 3 mm, about as long as the sepals.
Proposed vernacular name: —Small-leaves starwort.
Habitat: —Edges of streams in pine woods and grassy areas; altitude 1800–1900 m a.s.l.
Chorology: —Endemic to Dominican Republic, Province of Benefactor (Liogier 1982).
Chromosome number: —Unknown
Conservation status: —This species is to be considered as DD (Deficient Data) according to the IUCN criteria (IUCN 2016).
Selected specimens examined: — DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. La Vega. Jarbacoa, La Tucilla, in open places, 2000 m a.s.l., 15 August 1968, Liogier 12168 (NY1511624!); between Valle Nuevo and San José de Ocoa, La Nevera, in wet, open places, vould forests, 2100 m a.s.l., 18 October 1968, Liogier 13151 (NY01511625!). San José de Ocoa. La Nevera, en bosque nublado, 2100 m a.s.l., 06 April 1974, Liogier 21563 (NY01511623!). Hispaniola, en bosque nublado, subida la Cotorra, La Lagunita, 1800 m a.s.l., 15–19 June 1974, Liogier 21756 (NY02027324!; molecular voucher in Greenberg & Donoghue 2011).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1946-09-17
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Genus
- Maguirellaria
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Iamonico
- Species
- minutifolia
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1946-09-17
- Taxonomic concept label
- Maguirellaria minutifolia (Iamonico, 2023) sec. Iamonico, 2023
References
- Liogier, A. H. (1982) La flora de la Espanola, vol. 2. Universidad Central de Este, San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, 420 pp.
- IUCN (2016) The IUCN Red List of threatened species. Available from: http: // www. iucnredlist. org / (accessed: 17 May 2023)
- Greenberg, A. K. & Donoghue, M. J. (2011) Molecular systematics and character evolution in Caryophyllaceae. Taxon 60 (6): 1637 - 1652. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / tax. 606009