Astelia subg. Asteliopsis Skottsb.

Birch, Joanne L., 2015, A revision of infrageneric classification in Astelia Banks & Sol. ex R. Br. (Asteliaceae), PhytoKeys 52, pp. 105-132 : 110

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.52.4768

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scientific name

Astelia subg. Asteliopsis Skottsb.
status

 

Astelia subg. Asteliopsis Skottsb.

Astelia subg. Asteliopsis Skottsb., Kongl. Svenska Vetenskapsakad. Handl. ser. 3, 14(2): 46. 1934.

Note.

Flowers with a short perianth tube (0.2-1.1 mm); anthers dorsifixed, versatile; ovary uni- ( Astelia sect. Desmoneuron ) or trilocular ( Astelia sect. Isoneuron ); seeds obovoid, obovoid-reniform, or turbinate-polygonal; funicle ribbed, mucilaginous funicular hairs well developed that surround but do not adhere to the seed; Type: Astelia trinervia Kirk, designated here.

Remarks.

Phylogenetic analyses indicate that Astelia subg. Asteliopsis , as circumscribed by Skottsberg (1934), is polyphyletic (Birch unpublished PhD thesis 2011, Birch et al. 2012). Astelia subg. Asteliopsis is revised to include Astelia sect. Isoneuron and Astelia sect. Desmoneuron , which form a clade. But, as Astelia sect. Periastelia , is placed in a different clade, it is excluded from Astelia subg. Asteliopsis .

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Asteliaceae

Genus

Astelia