Sebaea is a genus of annual plants in the family Gentianaceae.[1] Species occur in Africa, Madagascar, India, China, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand.[1][2] The genus was paraphyletic and has been split in four genera: Exochaenium, Klackenbergia, Lagenias and Sebaea s.str..[1][3][4] Synapomorphies for Sebaea s.str. include the presence of extra stigma along the style[5] (called diplostigmaty[6][7]) and the shape of the testa cells of the seeds.[1]

Sebaea
Sabaea exacoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Gentianaceae
Tribe: Exaceae
Genus: Sebaea
Sol. ex R.Br.
Species

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The name honors Albertus Seba (1665–1736), a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector.[8]

Species include (non exhaustive list):

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Kissling, Jonathan; Yuan, Yong-Ming; Küpfer, Philippe; Mansion, Guilhem (December 2009). "The polyphyletic genus Sebaea (Gentianaceae): A step forward in understanding the morphological and karyological evolution of the Exaceae". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53 (3): 734–748. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.07.025. PMID 19646540.
  2. ^ Pirie, Michael; Litsios, Glenn; Bellstedt, Dirk; Salamin, Nicolas; Kissling, Jonathan (June 2015). "Back to Gondwanaland: can ancient vicariance explain (some) Indian Ocean disjunct plant distributions?". Biology Letters. 11 (6): 20150086. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2015.0086. PMC 4528461. PMID 26063747.
  3. ^ Kissling, Jonathan (2012-01-01). "Taxonomy of Exochaenium and Lagenias: Two Resurrected Genera of Tribe Exaceae (Gentianaceae)". Systematic Botany. 37 (1): 238–253. doi:10.1600/036364412X616800. ISSN 0363-6445.
  4. ^ Kissling, Jonathan; Buerki, Sven; Mansion, Guilhem (2009-08-01). "Klackenbergia (Gentianaceae – Exaceae), a new endemic genus from Madagascar". Taxon. 58 (3): 907–912. doi:10.1002/tax.583018.
  5. ^ Kissling, Jonathan; Endress, Peter K.; Bernasconi, Giorgina (2009). "Ancestral and monophyletic presence of diplostigmaty in Sebaea (Gentianaceae) and its potential role as a morphological mixed mating strategy" (PDF). New Phytologist. 184 (2): 303–310. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03000.x. PMID 19796337.
  6. ^ Marloth, R. (1909). "A diplostigmatic plant, Sebaea exacoides (L.) Schinz (Belmontia cordata L.)". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 1: 311–314. doi:10.1080/00359190909520037.
  7. ^ Kissling, Jonathan; Barrett, Spencer C.H. (2013). "Diplostigmaty in plants: a novel mechanism that provides reproductive assurance". Biology Letters. 9 (5): 20130495. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0495. PMC 3971688. PMID 23945209.
  8. ^ a b c "Sebaea". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  9. ^ Oliver, I.M.; Beyers, J.B.P. (2001). "A new species of Sebaea from the Swartberg range Western Cape, South Africa". Bothalia. 31 (2): 207–209. doi:10.4102/abc.v31i2.526.
  10. ^ Hilliard O.M. and Burtt B.L. 1982. Notes on some plants of Southern Africa chiefly from Natal: IX. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburg 40, 247-298.
  11. ^ a b Hilliard O.M. and Burtt B.L. 1983. Notes on some plants of Southern Africa chiefly from Natal: X. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburg 41, 304-306.
  12. ^ Kissling, Jonathan; Zeltner, Louis (2019). "Sebaea solaris (Gentianaceae), a new species from the Western cape of South Africa". South African Journal of Botany. 123: 20–22. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2019.02.002.