Molecular and morphological evidence for recognition of two species within Harpagonella (Amsinckiinae, Boraginaceae)

By

Guilliams, C. Matt
Jang, Timothy
Baldwin, Bruce G

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

70

Pages

17-30

Subjects

Amsinckiinae , Boraginaceae , Harpagonella , Pectocarya

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.70.9053

 

Abstract

Recent taxonomic treatments of the genus Harpagonella have included only one lower taxon, H. palmeri A. Gray. However, a larger-fruited variety of H. palmeri from Arizona and Sonora was described by I.M. Johnston in 1924. He continued to recognize this taxon – H. palmeri var. arizonica – in his treatment of the genus in Kearney and Peebles’s Arizona Flora in 1960. Here, we provide two lines of molecular evidence and quantitative morphological evidence from calyx characters showing that plants of Harpagonella from Arizona, Sonora, and central Baja California, corresponding to Johnston’s var. arizonica, are distinct from H. palmeri of southern California and Baja California. We make the new combination Harpagonella arizonica (I.M. Johnston) Guilliams & B.G. Baldwin, comb. nov. for the plants from Arizona, Sonora, and central Baja California.