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Issue: Vol. 572 No. 3: 15 November 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-11-15
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.572.3.9
Page range: 295-300
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 1

On the identity of Cryptocoryne pygmaea (Araceae) from Western Mindanao and the description of a new species from the islands of Palawan and Busuanga

Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. Jose Rizal Memorial State University, Tampilisan Campus, Znac, Tampilisan 7116, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines.
Oude Roswinkelerweg 72, NL-7822 AG Emmen, The Netherlands.
Section of Organismal Biology, Dept of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
Aroid aquatic plants Philippine Biodiversity Zamboanga Peninsula Monocots

Abstract

Recent fieldwork in Zamboanga del Norte resulted in the recollection of the poorly known aquatic aroid, Cryptocoryne pygmaea. In this study, we have clarified the identity of C. pygmaea as well as provided a detailed morphological description based on our recently collected material, updated its geographical distribution information, ecology, phenology, and a proposed conservation status. Through this recollection, it was revealed that plants previously identified as C. pygmaea in Palawan and Busuanga are different, thus we describe them here as C. palawanensis, a species new to science and the eighth representative of the genus for the Philippine archipelago.

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