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A taxonomic update of Neotropical Pradosia (Sapotaceae, Chrysophylloideae)
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany.
2016 (English)In: Systematic Botany, ISSN 0363-6445, E-ISSN 1548-2324, Vol. 41, p. 634-650Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We provide a systematic update of Pradosia (Sapotaceae, Chrysophylloideae), including overall morphology, a key to all species, comprehensive morphological descriptions, geographic distributions, and important characteristics for each species. Phyloge- netic analyses based on molecular data demonstrated that the genus is monophyletic and includes three main clades. Twenty-three species of Pradosia are accepted, which are mostly distributed in lowland rainforests on either white-sand or clayish soils in tropical South America. A rotate corolla with a short tube, lack of staminodes, a drupaceous fruit with plano-convex cotyledons, an exserted radicle below the cotyledons, and the absence of endosperm are diagnostic for the genus. Two names are reduced into synonymy, viz. Pradosia atroviolacea Ducke, syn. of P. grisebachii (Pierre) T. D. Penn., and Pradosia verrucosa Ducke, syn. of P. glaziovii (Pierre) T. D. Penn. The affinity of P. argentea (Kunth) T. D. Penn., a species known only from the type collection, remains uncertain and for now excluded from the genus.

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2016. Vol. 41, p. 634-650
Keywords [en]
Amazon, Atlantic forest, extinct species, phylogeny, Sapotaceae
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Botany
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Diversity of life
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-1817DOI: DOI 10.1600/036364416X692389OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-1817DiVA, id: diva2:957789
Available from: 2016-09-05 Created: 2016-09-05 Last updated: 2017-11-21Bibliographically approved

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