Doyleanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Myristicaceae. The only species is Doyleanthus arillata.[1]
| Doyleanthus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Myristicaceae |
| Genus: | Doyleanthus Sauquet |
| Species: | D. arillata
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| Binomial name | |
| Doyleanthus arillata Capuron ex Sauquet
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Its native range is Madagascar.[1]
Description edit
Similar in form to Mauloutchia in all vegetative and inflorescence characters, but unambiguously different in its monocyclic androecium (multiple stamens) with 3–4 strictly sessile anthers. It has a fully developed, deeply laciniate aril (seed coating), a condition otherwise found only in Madagascar in Mauloutchia heckelii, from which Doyleanthus may easily be distinguished by its unclustered, pedicellate flowers as well as its androecium characters.[2]
Taxonomy edit
French botanist René Capuron (1921 – 1971) first collected and described the plant (and placed it in the Mauloutchia family) and it was published after his early death in 'Contribution à l'étude de la flore forestière de Madagascar' – A. Haematodendron, genre nouveau de Myristicaceae. Adansonia, Série 2 Vol.12 on pages 375–379 in 1972. Later, another French botanist Hervé Sauquet, revised the plants found in Madagascar, and using phylogenetic analysis and he made a new genus. The genus of Doyleanthus is in honour of James A. Doyle (born 1943), American botanist and palaeontologist at the University of California, Davis.[2][3] It was then published in Amer. J. Bot. Vol. 90 on page 1304 in 2003.[1][2]
References edit
- ^ a b c "Doyleanthus Sauquet | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ^ a b c Sauquet, Hervé (2004). "Systematic revision of Myristicaceae (Magnoliales) in Madagascar, with four new species of Mauloutchia". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 146 (3): 351–368. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2004.00343.x. ISSN 1095-8339.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.