New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Short communication

New combinations in Montia (Portulacaceae)

P. B. Heenan

Allan Herbarium
Landcare Research
PO Box 40
Lincoln 7640, New Zealand

Abstract   In a recent phylogenetic study of DNA sequence data Neopaxia was shown to be nested in Montia, but the necessary new combinations in Montia were not made. The endemic New Zealand species of Neopaxia are formally transferred to Montia with the appropriate new combinations. A new name, M. angustifolia, is required for the species previously known as N. lineariifolia as that epithet is pre-occupied in Montia.

Keywords   Portulacaceae; Montia; Neopaxia; New Zealand flora

B06031; Online publication date 21 June 2007; Received 26 July 2006; accepted 28 February 2007

New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2007, Vol. 45: 437–439
0028–825X/07/4502–0437 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2007

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