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DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.525.1.9
Submitted: 2021-11-11
Published: 2021-11-11

A revised infrageneric classification of Bellevalia Lapeyr. (Asparagaceae: Scilloideae) based on molecular analysis

Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Damghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damghan, Iran.
Jordell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 7NQ, UK.
Compton Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, South Africa; Research Centre for Plant Growth and Development, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Private Bag X01, Scottsville 3209, South Africa.
Asparagaceae Bellevalia Hyacintheae Iran molecular phylogenetics systematics Monocots

Abstract

Within the genus Bellevalia (Asparagaceae: Scilloideae: Hyacintheae), flower shape and colour, the ratio of leaf to scape length, and the orientation of the pedicels were traditionally used to delimit sections, subsections and species. We conducted a phylogenetic analysis of representative species from sections Bellevalia, Conicae, Nutantes and Oxydontae, representing four out of the six sections that are currently recognised, using the four chloroplast regions rbcL, matK, trnL intron, and trnL-F spacer. Our results indicate that the sections are not monophyletic as currently circumscribed. Our analyses retrieve two major, well-supported clades. The first clade (sect. Conicae) includes only species with ciliate leaves and green-veined perianth lobes, and the second clade (sect. Bellevalia) includes the species lacking these characteristics. Within the second clade, the species with yellow anthers are separated from those with violet anthers. Our molecular analysis does not support the traditional subdivisions of the genus but establishes the value of cilia on the leaf margin, green veins in the perianths lobes, and the colour of the anthers as indicators of relationships among the species. We recommend that the current four sections and six subsections of Bellevalia be reduced to two sections without subsections and we provide an updated and corrected nomenclature for these sections and subsections, designating lectotypes where necessary.

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