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NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY
Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 31-39Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00288251003660703
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Desmoschoenus; Ficinia; Desmoschoenus spiralis; Ficinia spiralis; gynophore; Cypereae; New Zealand flora
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- South African NRF
- Cape Nature
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The New Zealand monotypic sedge Desmoschoenus is indistinguishable from the predominantly temperate South African Ficinia. Both genera share the presence of a condensed paniculate inflorescence and seeds bearing a gynophore, and Desmoschoenus is embedded within a Ficinia DNA phylogeny. Therefore, the current recognition of Desmoschoenus as a distinct genus cannot be justified, and we provide nomenclatural changes to merge the two genera.
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