| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Authors: | Hetterscheid, W. L. A., Claudel C. |
| Journal: | Aroideana; Journal of the International Aroid Society |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Start Page: | 40 |
| Pagination: | 46 |
| ISSN: | 0197-4033 |
| Keywords: | Amorphophallus, Araceae, phylogeny, Pseudodracontium, taxonomy, Thomsonieae |
| Abstract: | The aroid genus Pseudodracontium N.E. Br. is reduced to Amorphophallus Bl. ex Decne. New names and a new key to taxa of the former Pseudodracontium are presented. A discussion on its phylogenetic position within Amorphophallus is given. |
| Full Text | The genus Pseudodracontium was established by N.E. Brown in 1882. He introduced one new species, P. anomalum N.E. Br., and transferred Amorphophallus lacourii Lind. & Andre´ to Pseudodracontium. The first mentioned species was chosen as the lectotype species by Nicolson (1967). Subsequent years saw the addition of several new names in Pseudodracontium. These were dealt with taxonomically in a revision of the genus by Serebryanyi (1995) which left a total of 6 accepted species, 4 of which were newly introduced in that revision. After the revision only one new name was published in relation to Pseudodracontium, namely Amorphophallus glaucophyllus Hett. & Serebryanyi (Hetterscheid, 2006): Because it was already then strongly suspected by the authors that Pseudodracontium would soon be transferred to Amorphophallus, this new species, clearly a member of ‘‘Pseudodracontium’’, was published as a species of Amorphophallus. |