Hirtella, Linnaeus, 1753

Sothers, Cynthia, Prance, Ghillean T., Buerki, Sven, Kok, Rogier De & Chase, Mark W., 2014, Taxonomic novelties in Neotropical Chrysobalanaceae: towards a monophyletic Couepia, Phytotaxa 172 (2), pp. 176-200 : 192

3. Hirtella clade

Phylogenetic analyses ( Fig. 1 ) place C. recurva in a clade with other members of American Hirtella . These results, together with fruit morphological characters, strongly support the inclusion of C. recurva in the genus Hirtella . Hirtella recurva shares with Couepia the greater number of stamens and the usually narrow, elongate receptacle, although this character occurs in a few Hirtella species , e.g. H. tubiflora Cuatrecasas (1950: 59) .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Combined Bayesian half-compatible phylogenetic tree of Couepia and its sister lineages. Bayesian posterior probabilities are shown above branches. The outgroup taxon, Euphronia guianensis, is not displayed due to its long branch lengths.