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Nutlet sculpturing inScutellaria sect.Resinosa (Lamiaceae) and its taxonomic utility

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Nutlet sculpturing of 22 taxa ofScutellaria sect.Resinosa, representing 18 of its 19 species, and the monotypic genusSalazaria was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The nutlets of sect.Resinosa, while remarkably variable among themselves, differed from hypothetically closely related sections in lacking circumferential banding and sessile glands. Species could be grouped by surface sculpturing into seemingly meaningful phenetic clusters.Scutellaria potosina var.platyphylla was sufficiently distinct micromorphically so as to be elevated to specific status asScutellaria platyphylla comb. and stat. nov. The significance of nutlet microcharacters within sect.Resinosa is discussed, especially as compared to closely related sections. The genusSalazaria had nutlet sculpturing quite different from all taxa belonging to sect.Resinosa.

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  1. Department of Botany, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

    Billie L. Turner & Piero G. Delprete

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Turner, B.L., Delprete, P.G. Nutlet sculpturing inScutellaria sect.Resinosa (Lamiaceae) and its taxonomic utility. Pl Syst Evol 199, 109–120 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985921

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