Pitcairnia_subg._Pepinia

<i>Pitcairnia <span style="font-style:normal;">subg.</span> Pepinia</i>

Pitcairnia subg. Pepinia

Genus of flowering plants

Pitcairnia subg. Pepinia is a subgenus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae. It has at times been treated as the separate genus Pepinia, but is now included again in the genus Pitcairnia. The name is for Pierre Denis Pépin, French member of the Imperial and Central Society of Agriculture (c.1802-1876).[1]

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Taxonomy

Pepinia was established as a genus in 1870 by Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart in a publication by Édouard André.[2] Pepinia was reduced to a subgenus of Pitcairnia in 1881 by John Gilbert Baker,[3] but elevated again to a genus in 1988, largely on the basis of the morphology of its seeds.[4] The use of morphological characters to differentiate Pepinia from Pitcairnia was rejected in 1999;[5] a view later confirmed by multiple molecular studies.[6]

Selected species

Species that have been placed in Pepinia and are now placed in Pitcairnia subg. Pepinia include:

References

  1. [1]
    "BSI - Bromeliad Info - Genera Etymology". Archived from the original on 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
  2. [2]
    "Pepinia Brongn. ex André", The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 2022-11-02
  3. [3]
    Gouda, E.J.; Butcher, D.; Gouda, C.S. (2022), "Pepinia (subgen. of Pitcairnia) (Brongniart ex André) Baker", Encyclopaedia of Bromeliads, Utrecht University Botanic Gardens, retrieved 2022-11-02
  4. [4]
    Varadarajan, G.S. & Gilmartin, A.J. (1988), "Taxonomic Realignments within the Subfamily Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae)", Systematic Botany, 13 (2): 294–299, doi:10.2307/2419108, JSTOR 2419108
  5. [5]
    Taylor, David C.; Robinson, Harold & Robinson, H.E. (1999), "A rejection of Pepinia (Bromeliaceae: Pitcairnioideae) and taxonomic revisions", Harvard Papers in Botany, 4 (1): 203–218, JSTOR 41761301
  6. [6]
    Schütz, Nicole; Krapp, Florian; Wagner, Natascha & Weising, Kurt (2016), "Phylogenetics of Pitcairnioideae s.s. (Bromeliaceae): evidence from nuclear and plastid DNA sequence data", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 181 (3): 323–342, doi:10.1111/boj.12403
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