Astelia Banks & Sol. ex R.Br. subg. Astelia

Birch, Joanne L., 2015, A revision of infrageneric classification in Astelia Banks & Sol. ex R. Br. (Asteliaceae), PhytoKeys 52, pp. 105-132 : 109

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.52.4768

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scientific name

Astelia Banks & Sol. ex R.Br. subg. Astelia
status

 

Astelia Banks & Sol. ex R.Br. subg. Astelia

Note.

Flowers with a very short perianth tube (0.1-0.8 mm); anthers dorsifixed, versatile; ovary unilocular; seeds ovoid; funicle long, curved, with mucilaginous funicular hairs poorly developed that surround but do not adhere to the seed.

Remarks.

Molecular ( Birch et al. 2012) and morphology-based phylogenetic analyses (Birch unpublished PhD thesis 2011) indicate that Astelia subg. Astelia , as circumscribed by Skottsberg (1934), is polyphyletic. Astelia subg. Astelia is revised to include Astelia sect. Palaeastelia and Astelia sect. Astelia , which form a clade. Astelia sect. Desmoneuron is placed in a different clade and it is excluded from Astelia subg. Astelia .

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Asteliaceae

Genus

Astelia