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Issue: Vol. 443 No. 2: 19 May 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-05-19
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.443.2.6
Page range: 189–197
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

Peponium elgonense (Cucurbitaceae), a new species from Mount Elgon in Kenya

CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN-100049, China
CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN-100049, China
CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN-100049, China
CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN-100049, China
East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, P.O. Box 451660-0100, Nairobi, Kenya
Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya
CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China
CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, CN-430074, China
dioecious Flora of Kenya monoecious phylogeny taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Peponium elgonense, a new species of Cucurbitaceae from Mount Elgon in Kenya, is described and illustrated here with photographs. This species is similar to P. cienkowskii and P. vogelii, but differs by being monoecious and having a longer ovary. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of Peponium based on ITS and five plastid markers (trnL–F, rpl20–rps12, matK, rbcL, and trnL intron) of four species of Peponium further shows that P. elgonense individuals cluster together supporting the argument to regard it as a separate species.