Transfer of Senecio karelinioides (Asteraceae−Senecioneae) to Synotis based on evidence from morphology,karyology and ITS/ETS sequence data |
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| Authors: | Hui‐Min Li Georgy A Lazkov Irina D Illarionova Tian‐Jing Tong Yun‐Yun Shao Chen Ren |
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| Institution: | 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China;2. Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;3. Laboratory of Flora, Inst. for Biology and Soil, National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan;4. Komarov Botanical Inst. of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
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| Abstract: | Senecio karelinioides (Asteraceae?Senecioneae) is a species with a rather distinctive habit and an uncertain position in the genus. Based on evidence from macro‐ and micro‐morphology, karyology and ITS and ETS sequence data, we demonstrate that it is actually a member of Synotis and closely related to Synotis atractylidifolia . The relationship is further supported by the approximately unbiased and the Swofford–Olsen–Waddell–Hillis statistical topology tests. We thus transfer the species to Synotis as Synotis karelinioides and place it in the same section as S. atractylidifolia . Senecio sect. Karelinioidei is recombined as Synotis sect. Karelinioidei for this section, and a lectotype of Synotis karelinioides is designated. |
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| Keywords: | Asteraceae Senecioneae Synotis |
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