Phycella

Genus of flowering plants

Phycella
Phycella cyrtanthoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Subtribe: Traubiinae
Genus: Phycella
Lindl.[1][2]
Type species
Phycella cyrtanthoides (Sims) Lindl.[3]
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Amaryllis ignea Lindl. [1]
  • Famatina maulensis Ravenna[4]
  • Miltinea Ravenna [5]
Phycella cyrtanthoides, original specimen, described as Amaryllis ignea, 1824[6]

Phycella is a genus of herbaceous, perennial bulbous flowering plants belonging to the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. The genus consists of five species distributed from central Chile to northwestern Argentina.[7]

The type species, P. cyrtanthoides, is commonly known as añañuca in Chile, and the star Gliese 367 is named after it.[8]

Taxonomy

The genus was described by John Lindley in 1825.[9][1] After further examining specimens of Amaryllis ignea (see illustration) that he had described the previous year as Amaryllis, with some reservation,[6] Lindley concluded they were a separate genus, naming two species, P. ignea, and P. cyrtanthoides (previously A. cyrtanthoides). Subsequently, it was considered these were the same plant, and P. ignea was reassigned to a synonym for P. cyrtanthoides.[10]

Phylogeny

Phycella is located in the American (Hippeastroid) clade of the Amaryllidoideaetribe, where it is placed in tribe Hippeastreae, subtribe Traubiinae. In molecular phylogenetic analysis, Phycella forms a sister group to the remainder of the Hippeastreae.[11] In 1996 the Müller-Doblies' had situated it in subtribe Hippeastrinae based on morphological criteria, by submerging it in Hippeastrum.[12] A detailed study of in-depth relations within Hippeastreae revealed a more complicated situation wit regard to the Chilean-Argentinian taxa which had not been well represented in earlier studies. There was strong support for two major clades, representing two subtribes, with Phycella and three other genera (but not Hippeastrum) forming the Traubiinae. This study also showed that one species of Famatina (F. maulensis) segregated with Phycella, and was therefore submerged in it as Phycella herbertiana.[13] By contrast the remaining three Famatina species segregated with Rhodophiala and were therefore grouped in Hippeastrinae together with Hippeastrum. Consequently, Famatina has been extinguished as separate genus.[14] The genus Placea was also submerged in Phycella, resulting in about 13 species in total.[3]

Subdivision

13–14 species are described:[15][3]

  • Phycella amoena Nic.García syn. Placea amoena
  • Phycella arzae (Phil.) Nic.García syn. Placea arzae
  • Phycella australis Ravenna [16]
  • Phycella brevituba Herb. [17]
  • Phycella chilensis (L’Hér.) Grau ex Nic.García syn. Amaryllis chilensis L’Hér.
  • Phycella cyrtanthoides (Sims) Lindl.[1]
  • Phycella davidii (Ravenna) Nic.García syn. Placea davidii
  • Phycella fulgens (Hook.f.) Nic.García, syn. Habranthus fulgens Hook.f.
  • Phycella germainii (Phil.) Nic.García syn. Placea germainii Phil.
  • Phycella herbertiana Lindl. [18] syn. Famatina maulensis Ravenna[13]
  • Phycella lutea (Phil.) Nic.García Placea lutea Phil.
  • Phycella maulensis (Ravenna) Nic.García & J.M.Watson syn. Famatina maulensis Ravenna
  • Phycella ornata (Miers) Nic.García syn. Placea ornata Miers
  • Phycella scarlatina Ravenna [19]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Lindley 1825.
  2. ^ WCLSPF 2015, Phycella
  3. ^ a b c Garcia et al 2019.
  4. ^ Pl. Life 28: 56 (1972)
  5. ^ Bot. Australis 2: 8 (2003)
  6. ^ a b Lindley 1824.
  7. ^ TPL 2013, Phycella
  8. ^ "2022 Approved Names". nameexoworlds.iau.org. IAU. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  9. ^ Tropicos 2015, Phycella
  10. ^ WCLSPF 2015, Phycella ignea
  11. ^ Meerow et al 2000.
  12. ^ Müller-Doblies & Müller-Doblies 1996.
  13. ^ a b WCLSPF 2015, Famatina maulensis
  14. ^ Garcia et al 2014.
  15. ^ WCLSPF 2015.
  16. ^ Pl. Life 37: 71 (1981)
  17. ^ Amaryllidaceae: 154 (1837)
  18. ^ Edwards's Bot. Reg. 16: t. 1341 (1830)
  19. ^ Pl. Life 37: 69 (1981)

Bibliography

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  • Lindley, John (1825). "Note upon Amaryllis ignea Supra vol. 10. fol. 809". The Botanical Register. 11: ad 928.
  • Müller-Doblies, U.; Müller-Doblies, D. (1996). "Tribes and subtribes and some species combinations in Amaryllidaceae J St Hil R Dahlgren & al. 1985". Feddes Repertorium. 107 (5–6): S.c.1–S.c.9.
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  • —; Meerow, Alan W.; Arroyo-Leuenberger, Silvia; Oliveira, Renata S.; Dutilh, Julie H.; Soltis, Pamela S.; Judd, Walter S. (June 2019). "Generic classification of Amaryllidaceae tribe Hippeastreae". Taxon. 68 (3): 481–498. doi:10.1002/tax.12062. S2CID 202854432.(With corrections published 2020)
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  • Media related to Phycella at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
Phycella