Re: [Aroid-l] Adelonema

From: "Tom Croat" <Thomas.Croat at mobot.org> on 2011.11.22 at 01:18:17(22366) Dear Christopher: I don’t think that there is any close relative in Africa and it seems rather unlikely that they got separated by a constipated bird so I can’t really explain the similarities or the differences. Perhaps Pete has an idea. Tom HTML +More From: aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Rogers Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:58 AM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Adelonema Thank you, Peter and Tom! So, thinking biogeographically, am I understanding you correctly that Adelonema and Homalomena are sister taxa, having split roughly 75mya? Even 75 mya, these regions were never near each other. Do you think that these genera used to be distributed from South America, across Africa to Southeast Asia? Are there any sister clades in Africa for these genera or for other genus groups with a similar South American/Asian distribution? Happy days, Christopher On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Peter Boyce wrote: Hi Marek, and other aroid-l folks, Tom as nicely summed up the situation; allow me to put some more meat on the bones. We have two independent sets of molecular data that show convincingly that the Neotropical species currently assigned to Homalomena do not belong there NOR do they belong in Philodendron – as had been suggested by a previous study [Molecular phylogeny of the genus Philodendron (Araceae): delimitation and infrageneric classification - [Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 156: 13–27] - Gauthier, Barab� & Bruneau 2008]. The ‘coarse’ detail is a molecular clock study by Nauheimer et al, which gives dates the diversification of the Neotropical and Paleotropical clades at a minimum of ca 75 MYA. The ’fine detail’ comes from a molecular study we’ve done in Malaysia as part of our work on the “true” Homalomena species. This paper is in prep. now, a spin-off from the phylogeny work done by two of our Master’s projects (Ng Kiaw Kiaw – who works on chemical profiling - and Hoe Yin Chen, who’s working on pollination and floral fragrance analyses). While Curmeria is ‘better known’, the earliest name is Schott’s Adelonema. The published accepted names () involved for the Neotropics are: Adelonema Schott Prodr. Syst. Aroid.: 316 1860 [T] Adelonema erythropus (Mart. ex Schott) Schott Prodr. Syst. Aroid.: 317 1860 Caladium erythropus Mart. ex Engl. Fl. Bras. 3(2): 172 1878 Curmeria Linden & Andr� Ill. Hort. 20: 45, t.121 1873 Curmeria picta auct. Gard. Chron., n.s., 1874: 92 1874 [T] Curmeria picturata Linden & Andr� Ill. Hort. 20: 45, t.121 1873 Curmeria roezelii Mast. Gard. Chron., n.s., 1874(2): 804 1874 Curmeria wallisii (Regel) Mast. Gard. Chron., n.s., 1877(1): 108 1877 Homalomena crinipes Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 37: 124 1905 Homalomena erythropus (Mart. ex Schott) Engl. Pflanzenr., 55(IV.23Da): 130 1912 Homalomena erythropus subsp. allenii Croat Aroideana 27: 131 2004 Homalomena hammelii Croat & Grayum Phytologia 82(1): 37 1997 Homalomena kvistii Croat Aroideana 27: 135 2004 Homalomena moffleriana Croat & Grayum Aroideana 27: 137 2004 Homalomena peltata Mast. Gard. Chron., n.s., 1877(?): 273 1877 Homalomena picturata (Linden & Andr�) Regel Gartenflora 26: 33 1877 Homalomena roezelii (Mast.) Regel Gartenflora 26: 33 1877 Homalomena speariae Bogner & Moffler Aroideana 7: 37 1984 Homalomena wallisii Regel Gartenflora 1877 Homalomena wendlandii Schott Prodr. Syst. Aroid.: 308 1860 Bold non-italic text are currently accepted species. All of these names above in Homalomena will be combined into Adelonema. Tom has also three new species, and a new variety of H. (A.) crinipes. Non-bold italics are synonyms [T] = type species for the genus Adelonema will comprise 16 taxa. One additional Neotropical ‘Homalomena’, H. solimoensis G.M.Barroso [Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 15: 89 1957] was moved to Philodendron by Eduardo as: Philodendron humile E.G.Gon�. Peter From: target="_blank">aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com [mailto: href="mailto:aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com" target="_blank">aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Marek Argent Sent: Saturday, 19 November, 2011 2:26 AM To: discussion of aroids Subject: [Aroid-l] Adelonema Hello, Is Adelonema a valid genus? I've read about it in the "�berlist" published in the IAS homepage. What species of Homalomena have been moved? Can I find any document on the web? Best, Marek _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l -- D. Christopher Rogers ((,///////////=======

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