Benstonea Callm. &amp; Buerki (Pandanaceae): Characterization, Circumscription, and Distribution of a New Genus of Screw-Pines, with a Synopsis of Accepted Species

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 2012Publisher:Society of Conservatoire at Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de GeneveJournal:Candollea, volume 67, page 323 (issn: 0373-2967,

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Authors: Callmander, Martin W.; Lowry Ii, Porter P.; Forest, Félix; Devey, Dion S.; Beentje, Henk; Buerki, Sven;

doi: 10.15553/c2012v672a12

Benstonea Callm. & Buerki (Pandanaceae): Characterization, Circumscription, and Distribution of a New Genus of Screw-Pines, with a Synopsis of Accepted Species

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Abstract Callmander, M. W., P. P. Lowry II, F. Forest, D. S. Devey, H. Beentje & S. Buerki (2012). Benstonea Callm. & Buerki (Pandanaceae): characterization, circumscription, and distribution of a new genus of screwpines, with a synopsis of accepted species. Candollea 67: 323–345. In English, English and French abstracts. Pandanaceae, a palaeotropical monocot family of c. 700 species, comprises four currently recognized genera: Freycinetia Gaudich., Martellidendron (Pic. Serm.) Callm. & Chassot, Pandanus Parkinson and Sararanga Helms. Within Pandanus (c. 500 spp.), species of sect. Acrostigma Kurz [one of four sections comprising subg. Acrostigma (Kurz) B. C. Stone] possess highly distinctive morphological features (viz. sharp spiniform, linear styles with the stigmatic groove on the abaxial side of the style and a staminate flower reduced to 1 to 3 stamens) shared with two other species (likewise belonging to subg. Acrostigma but originally placed in sect. Fusiforma B. C. Stone) that separate them from a...

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Keywords

Tracheophyta, Liliopsida, Pandanales, Biodiversity, Plantae, Pandanaceae, Taxonomy

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