Allonymphaea Doweld 2021, nom. nov.
Creators
Description
≡ Thiebaudia M. Chandler, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Geol. 2(4): 180. 1954, nom. illeg. non Thiebautia Colla, Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 3: 161. 10 Jul 1824 & Hortus Ripul. 139. Jun-Aug 1824 (Orchidaceae) nec Thibaudia Ruiz et Pavon ex Jaume St. -Hilaire, Expos. Fam. 1: 362. 1805 (Ericaceae).
IFPNI registration LSID: 7CADF862-1DF6-73D1-7F21-2B840471F94B
Type— Allonymphaea rayaniensis (M. Chandler) Doweld, comb. nov.
≡ Thiebaudia rayaniensis M. Chandler, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Geol. 2(4): 180. 1954
Holotype — Egypt, western desert, Wadi Rayan (V.31120, Natural History Museum, London, U.K.) – figured: pl. 16, fig. 58-63.
IFPNI registration LSID: D03FBF36-F539-3D53-F3D7-A532ABF93C75.
Stratigraphy: Eocene (Lutetian).
Etymology: by superficial likeness to the fruits of extant Nymphaea L. (1753: 510).
The genus Thiebaudia M. Chandler (1954: 180) was proposed for the fossil distinctive fruits from the Eocene (Lutetian) sediments of Wadi Rayan, western desert of Egypt (Northern Africa). These fossil remains were initially related with fruits of Flacourtiaceae, but later re-interpreted by Chester and Chandler as possible nymphaeaceous remains (vide Collinson, 1980). Since the fossil generic name is a (para)homonym of previously validly published orchidaceous generic name Thiebautia Colla (1824: 161) and ericaceous Thibaudia Ruiz et Pavon ex Jaume St. -Hilaire (1805: 362), a generic name is here validated.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Genus
- Allonymphaea
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Order
- Ericales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Doweld
- Taxonomic status
- nom. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Allonymphaea Doweld, 2021
References
- Chandler, M. (1954) Some Upper Cretaceous and Eocene fruits from Egypt. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Series Geology 2: 147 - 187. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 313846
- Collinson, M. E. (1980) Recent and Tertiary seeds of the Nymphaeaceae sensu lato with a revision of Brasenia ovula (Brong.) Reid and Chandler. Annals of Botany (Oxford) 46: 603 - 632. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1093 / oxfordjournals. aob. a 085958