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PLANT BIOSYSTEMS
Volume 147, Issue 1, Pages 158-173Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2012.752414
Keywords
Iberian Peninsula; internal transcribed spacer; Mediterranean; micromorphology; Sarcocornia; seeds
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- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (MEC, Spanish Goverment) [CGL2009-11059, CTM2010-18456]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN, Spanish Goverment)
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This study presents a comprehensive revision of the genus Sarcocornia (Chenopodiaceae) on the Iberian Peninsula based on macromorphological, micromorphological and phylogenetic data, and considering caryological, ecological and biogeographical information. Three species of Sarcocornia have been identified on the Iberian Peninsula: Sarcocornia perennis (Miller) A.J. Scott, Sarcocornia fruticosa (L.) A.J. Scott and Sarcocornia alpini (Lag.) Rivas-Martinez. Several authors have proposed that S. alpini is a specific and subspecific rank of S. perennis. Fuente, Rufo and Sanchez-Mata have recently described a new species, Sarcocornia hispanica. The micromorphological and molecular studies (sequence of the internal transcribed spacer region) indicate that there is a broad diversity within Sarcocornia in the Western Mediterranean. This article proposes a new species (Sarcocornia pruinosa) and subspecies (S. alpini subsp. carinata) in view of the new data.
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