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A synopsis of the genus Pteronia (Compositae: Astereae) in Namibia including the resurrection of Pteronia quadrifaria

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Summary. An account of species of Pteronia occurring in Namibia is presented, together with an updated key. New material of P. quadrifaria Dinter confirmed that this is a valid species and not a synonym of P. lucilioides DC., and is resurrected. Species descriptions, global and Namibian distributions, conservation status, habitat and phenological information are presented for the 24 species recognised from Namibia. During this study it became clear that many species names have not been properly typified. As a result arguments are presented for the choice of 10 lectotypes, eight of which concern Pteronia with five of these for names of species accepted here. Four species of Pteronia that have been described from or are at least partly occurring in Namibia but that are no longer considered part of this genus are briefly discussed.

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  1. With Specimens Examined we list inspected sheets from herbaria (marked with “!”) and other herbaria which are known to hold a duplicate specimen.

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Acknowledgements

The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership is acknowledged for funding of fieldtrips. In Namibia the Ministry of Environment and Tourism is thanked for the plant collecting permit and the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry for use of their facilities. Patricia Craven was very helpful in obtaining additional information, literature and specimen photographs and getting some of the herbarium specimen data onto a BRAHMS database, while Tyrone Tholkes is gratefully acknowledged for assistance during fieldwork. At Kew we are grateful to Juliet Beentje for her wonderful line drawings of five Pteronia species, to Dr Nicholas Hind for advice on Compositae terminology and for help with identifying suitable herbarium material for some of the line drawings, to Rafaël Govaerts for his help with some nomenclatural tangles, and to Dr Wolfgang Stuppy for his improvement of the images and maps. Furthermore, we thank Dr Dee Snijman (NBG, Cape Town) for her search for Pteronia, Amphiglossa, Athanasia and Eremothamnus specimens at SAM and NBG, Mr Paul Herman (PRE) for advice on Eremothamnus, Mr John Hunnex for finding two Pteronia holotypes in BM, and Mr Thomas Hillmann for providing a photograph of Dinter 6190 while Herbarium Hamburgense was off-line. At the herbarium G in Geneva Drs Fernand Jacquemoud and Matthieu Perret, as well as Sylviane Mura are thanked for their invaluable help in checking the many Candolle types in G-DC involved in this study and making them available through high-resolution images. HK thanks the curators of K, NBG, SAM and WIND for making their collections available for study. We thank the three reviewers for useful suggestions and improvements.

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    Herta Kolberg

  2. Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, Seed Conservation Department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Wakehurst Place, Ardingly, nr Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH17 6TN, UK

    Michiel van Slageren

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Index of plant names

Accepted names in bold; synonyms in italics.

Chrysocoma oppositifolia L. = Pteronia divaricata Less.

Dicoma ramosissima Klatt = Pteronia acuminata DC.

Dicoma seitziana Dinter = Pteronia eenii S. Moore

Eupatorium divaricatum P. J. Bergius = Pteronia divaricata Less.

Pteronia acuminata DC.

Pteronia acuta Muschl.

Pteronia aizoides Muschl. = Eremothamnus marlothianus O. Hoffm.

Pteronia anisata B. Nord.

Pteronia anisata Dinter ex Merxm., nom. nud. = Pteronia glabrata L. f.

Pteronia arcuata Dinter = Pteronia glauca Thunb.

Pteronia beckeoides auct. non DC. = Pteronia lucilioides DC.

Pteronia bromoides S. Moore = Pteronia lucilioides DC.

Pteronia cancellata Dinter, nom. nud. = Pteronia pomonae Merxm.

Pteronia candollei Harv. = Pteronia glauca Thunb.

Pteronia carnosa Muschl. (Muschler 1911a: 95) non P. carnosa Muschl. (Muschler 1911a: 97) = Pteronia glabrata L. f.

Pteronia carnosa Muschl. (Muschler 1911a: 97) non P. carnosa Muschl. (Muschler 1911a: 95). = Pteronia acuminata DC.

Pteronia chlorolepis Dinter = Pteronia sordida N.E.Br.

Pteronia ciliata Thunb.

Pteronia ciliata Thunb. var. ecklonis Harv. = Pteronia ciliata Thunb.

Pteronia ciliata Thunb. var. subtrigona DC. = Pteronia ciliata Thunb.

Pteronia ciliata Thunb. var. thunbergii Harv. = Pteronia ciliata Thunb.

Pteronia cylindracea DC.

Pteronia dinteri S. Moore = Pteronia mucronata DC.

Pteronia divaricata Less.

Pteronia eenii S. Moore

Pteronia engleriana Muschl. = Amphiglossa tomentosa (Thunb.) Harv.

Pteronia feddeana Muschl. = Pteronia acuminata DC.

Pteronia feldtmanniana Dinter ex Merxm., nom. nud. = Pteronia eenii S. Moore

Pteronia flexicaulis auct. non L. f. = Pteronia paniculata Thunb.

Pteronia geigerioides Muschl. ex Dinter, nom. nud. = Athanasia minuta (L. f.) Källersjö

Pteronia glabrata L. f.

Pteronia glabrata auct. non L. f. = Pteronia glauca Thunb.

Pteronia glabrata L. f. var. succulenta (Thunb.) Merxm. = Pteronia glabrata L. f.

Pteronia glauca Thunb.

Pteronia glauca Thunb. subsp. arcuata (Dinter) Merxm. = Pteronia glauca Thunb.

Pteronia glomerata , auct. non L. f. = Pteronia sordida N. E. Br.

Pteronia gymnocline auct. non DC. = Pteronia lucilioides DC.

Pteronia inflexa L. f.

Pteronia kingesii Merxm. = Pteronia polygalifolia O. Hoffm.

Pteronia latisquama DC. = Pteronia glauca Thunb.

Pteronia leucoclada Turcz.

Pteronia lucilioides DC.

Pteronia lucilioides DC. var. sparsifolia Harv. = Pteronia lucilioides DC.

Pteronia lupulina DC. = Pteronia inflexa L. f.

Pteronia lupulina DC. var. rotundifolia DC. = Pteronia inflexa L. f.

Pteronia lycioides Muschl. ex Dinter = Pteronia scariosa L. f.

Pteronia marlothiana (O. Hoffm.) Dinter = Eremothamnus marlothianus O. Hoffm.

Pteronia minuta L. f. = Athanasia minuta (L. f.) Källersjö subsp. minuta

Pteronia mucronata DC.

Pteronia mucronata DC. subsp. dinteri (S. Moore) Merxm. = Pteronia mucronata DC.

Pteronia onobromoides DC.

Pteronia paniculata Thunb.

Pteronia polygalifolia O. Hoffm.

Pteronia pomonae Merxm.

Pteronia quadrifaria Dinter

Pteronia quinquecostata Dinter = Pteronia polygalifolia O. Hoffm.

Pteronia rangei Muschl.

Pteronia roesemanniana Dinter ex Merxm., nom. nud. = Pteronia lucilioides DC.

Pteronia scariosa L. f.

Pteronia sesuviifolia DC. = Pteronia glabrata L. f.

Pteronia sordida N. E. Br.

Pteronia spinulosa E. Phillips

Pteronia succulenta auct. non Thunb. = Pteronia glabrata L. f.

Pteronia thymifolia Muschl. & Dinter = Pteronia glauca Thunb.

Pteronia turbinata DC. = Pteronia ciliata Thunb.

Pteronia unguiculata S. Moore

Pteronia villosa auct. non L. f. = Pteronia pomonae Merxm.

Pteronia viscosa Thunb.

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Kolberg, H., van Slageren, M. A synopsis of the genus Pteronia (Compositae: Astereae) in Namibia including the resurrection of Pteronia quadrifaria . Kew Bull 69, 9488 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-014-9488-y

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