2020/08/17 by Aris Zografidis, Ori Fragman‐Sapir, Arne Strid +1 · 5 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Botany #Correct name #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Genealogy #Genus #Geography #History #Linguistics #Nomenclature #Philosophy #Phylogenetic tree #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Plant Parasitism and Resistance #Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions #Taxon #Taxonomy (biology) #Turkish #Type (biology) #Zoology
paper · doi:10.1002/tax.12292
published in Taxon 69(5), 992-997 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2020/08/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/26
Abstract Graecobolanthus was proposed in 2018 as a new generic name for the Greek species of the genus Bolanthus , the latter genus comprising the remaining species from Anatolia and the Levant according to the revising authors. However, the type of the two generic names, i.e., Graecobolanthus graecus from Greece and Bolanthus hirsutus from the Levant, undoubtedly belong to the same genus based on morphological and genetic similarity. Importantly, B. hirsutus was not included in the molecular analysis by the revising authors. In summary, we note that (i) Graecobolanthus is taxonomically superfluous and Bolanthus is the correct generic name of the Greek‐endemic species; (ii) an extended Phrynella and/or a new generic name might accommodate the Turkish taxa currently under Bolanthus , which were located on a distinct phylogenetic branch in the study by the revising authors.