Gaudichaudieae Horan.

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2.9. Gaudichaudieae Horan. , Char. Ess. Fam.: 182. 1847, emend. nov. R. F. Almeida

≡ Gaudichaudioideae A. Juss. ex C. V. Morton, Taxon 17: 318. 1968 .

= Sphedamnocarpinae Nied. in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. III, 4: 52, 59. 1890, syn. nov. Type genus: Sphedamnocarpus Planch. ex Benth. & Hook. f.

Type genus.

Gaudichaudia Kunth.

Diagnosis.

Lianas, shrubs to subshrubs; umbels, rarely thyrses, usually 4 - flowered; pollen 4–12 - pantocolporate (porate in Stigmaphyllon subg. Ryssopterys , Philgamia , and Sphedamnocarpus ); mericarps winged, 1 - winged, dorsal wing more developed, rarely reduced, presence of macrolactams, absence of biotin and derivatives, sulfenyl compounds.

Notes.

Gaudichaudieae currently comprises 14 accepted genera, Aspicarpa , Banisteriopsis , Bronwenia , Camarea , Cottsia , Diplopterys , Janusia , Mamedea , Mionandra , Peixotoa , Philgamia , Schwannia , Sphedamnocarpus , and Stigmaphyllon , and 336 species (154 threatened species; Suppl. material 1) occurring in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania ( POWO 2024).

Anderson (1993) proposed Gaudichaudieae ( A. Juss.) W. R. Anderson with the aim to “ validate ” the name published by Jussieu (1840). Nonetheless, the name published by Jussieu (1840) was proposed as unranked and was not validly published until Morton (1968) provided a Latin diagnosis while also correcting its spelling and rank to be used as a subfamily. However, both authors overlooked that the name had already been validly published as a tribe, accompanied by a Latin diagnosis by Horaninow (1847). Therefore, Anderson’s name is a superfluous, later homonym of Gaudichaudieae Horan.