Categories
  Encyclosphere.org ENCYCLOREADER
  supported by EncyclosphereKSF

Wightia

From HandWiki - Reading time: 2 min

Wightia
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Paulowniaceae
Genus: Wightia
Wall.
Species:
W. speciosissima
Binomial name
Wightia speciosissima
(D.Don) Merr.
Synonyms
  • Gmelina speciosissima D.Don
  • Wightia alpinii Craib
  • Wightia elliptica Merr.
  • Wightia gigantea Wall.
  • Wightia lacei Craib

Wightia is a genus of flowering plants tentatively sister to the Phrymaceae which currently contains only two species. It grows as a tree, or a hemiepiphytic pseudo-vine, up to 15 metres (49 ft) tall.[1] It is found in South Asia and South East Asia, from Nepal and India to Thailand, Vietnam and China's Yunnan Province, at altitudes below 2,500 m (8,200 ft).[1] There are still morphological characters as well as nuclear genome data to support Wightia as sister to Paulownia leading it to be of proposed hybrid origin from Phrymaceae and Paulowniaceae[2]. Due to chloroplast and mitochondrial data showing Wightia as sister to Phrymaceae it is proposed that a new family Wightiaceae be recognized[3].

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hong et al. (1998), pp. 10–11.
  2. Xia, Zhi; Wen, Jun; Gao, Zhiming (2019-04-30). "Does the Enigmatic Wightia Belong to Paulowniaceae (Lamiales)?". Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 528. doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00528. ISSN 1664-462X. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2019.00528/full. 
  3. Liu, Bing; Tan, Yun‐Hong; Liu, Su; Olmstead, Richard G.; Min, Dao‐Zhang; Chen, Zhi‐Duan; Joshee, Nirmal; Vaidya, Brajesh N. et al. (2019-09-03). "Phylogenetic relationships of Cyrtandromoea and Wightia revisited: A new tribe in Phrymaceae and a new family in Lamiales". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. doi:10.1111/jse.12513. ISSN 1674-4918. 

Bibliography

  • Deyuan Hong; Hanbi Yang; Cun-li Jin; Manfred A. Fischer; Noel H. Holmgren; Robert R. Mill (1998). "Scrophulariaceae A. L. Jussieu". Scrophulariaceae through Gesneriaceae. Flora of China. 18. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. pp. 1–212. ISBN 9780915279555. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5222145 entry





Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source: https://handwiki.org/wiki/Biology:Wightia
10 views | Status: cached on July 29 2024 15:45:15
↧ Download this article as ZWI file
Encyclosphere.org EncycloReader is supported by the EncyclosphereKSF