Garcinia section Paragarcinia (Baillon) Vesque, Monogr. Phan. [A. DC. & C. DC.] 8: 254 (1893). Clade 3

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4. Garcinia section Paragarcinia (Baillon) Vesque, Monogr. Phan. [A. DC. & C. DC.] 8: 254 (1893). Clade 3

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Type.

Ochrocarpos decipiens Baill., Adansonia 11: 370 (1876) [≡ Garcinia decipiens (Baill.) Vesque, Monogr. Phan. [A.DC. & C.DC.] 8: 482 (1893)].

Distinguishing sectional characters.

Flowers with two (usually) sepals, fused in bud. Staminate flowers with a pistillode, stamens arranged into four (up to eight) fascicles with sessile to subsessile, two-thecous anthers. Ovaries four locular, stigmas weakly lobed. Fruits with smooth walls. Inflorescences terminal or axillary with few to many flowers. Afrotropics (Madagascar and Comoros).

This section contains the Garcinia species that were formerly placed into the segregate genus Ochrocarpos . The twelve species in this section are endemic to Madagascar and Comoros ( Sweeney and Rogers 2008).

Species.

Garcinia cerasifer (H.Perrier) P.F.Stevens; G. dauphinensis P.W.Sweeney & Z.S.Rogers; G. decipiens Vesque; G. evonymoides (Planch. & Triana) P.W.Sweeney & Z.S.Rogers; G. goudotiana (Planch. & Triana) P.W.Sweeney & Z.S.Rogers; G. madagascariensis (Planch. & Triana) Pierre; G. multifida (H. Perrier) P.W.Sweeney & Z.S.Rogers; G. orthoclada Baker; G. parvula (H. Perrier) P.W.Sweeney & Z.S.Rogers; G. pauciflora Baker; G. tsaratananensis (H. Perrier) P.W.Sweeney & Z.S.Rogers.

Figures

Figure 2. Molecular phylogeny of Garcinia L. based on ITS sequences and Bayesian inference. Posterior probabilities (PP) and bootstrap support values (BS), obtained respectively by the Bayesian inference and Maximum Likelihood (ML) analysis, are indicated at each node of the cladogram. Nodes were collapsed when PP <0.50. The lineages / sections discussed in the text are highlighted, and species names appear in colors depending on their native distribution areas: light blue, Central and South America; light green, Tropical Africa; dark green, Madagascar and Western Indian Ocean islands; grey, Southeast Asia; purple, Australia; orange, New Guinea; red, New Caledonia; dark blue, Southwest Pacific islands. Distribution information was taken from the Plants of the World Online website (POWO 2023; also see the table of vouchers). A few species occur in several regions, and the color of the main (largest) geographic region was used. Accessions in bold were newly sequenced in this study.

Figure 3. Molecular phylogeny of Garcinia L. based on a combined chloroplast DNA dataset and Bayesian inference. Posterior probabilities (PP) and bootstrap support values (BS), obtained respectively by the Bayesian inference and Maximum Likelihood (ML) analysis, are indicated at each node of the cladogram. Nodes were collapsed when PP <0.50. The lineages / sections discussed in the text are highlighted, and species names appear in colors depending on their native distribution areas: light green, Tropical Africa; dark green, Madagascar and Western Indian Ocean islands; grey, Southeast Asia; purple, Australia; orange, New Guinea; red, New Caledonia; dark blue, Southwest Pacific islands. Distribution information was taken from the Plants of the World Online website (POWO 2023; also see the table of vouchers). A few species occur in several regions, and the color of the main (largest) region was used. All accessions were newly sequenced in this study.