TAILIEUCHUNG - Towards a new classification of Salvia s.l.: (re)establishing the genus Pleudia Raf.

Salvia L. in its traditional circumscription is the largest genus within the mint family. To date, the magnitude of the task has rendered it difficult to provide a genus-wide revision based on morphological data. Current molecular investigations based on a dense taxon sampling representing the whole phenotypic diversity and distribution range of Salvia confirmed that the genus is polyphyletic. | Turkish Journal of Botany Research Article Turk J Bot (2015) 39: 693-707 © TÜBİTAK doi: Towards a new classification of Salvia .: (re)establishing the genus Pleudia Raf. Maria WILL*, Natalie SCHMALZ, Regine CLASSEN-BOCKHOFF Institute of Systematic Botany and Botanical Garden, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany Received: Accepted/Published Online: Printed: Abstract: Salvia L. in its traditional circumscription is the largest genus within the mint family. To date, the magnitude of the task has rendered it difficult to provide a genus-wide revision based on morphological data. Current molecular investigations based on a dense taxon sampling representing the whole phenotypic diversity and distribution range of Salvia confirmed that the genus is polyphyletic. Salvia species fall in 4 distinct clades, although all of them, except Clade IV, also include non-Salvia genera. A taxonomic revision is thus urgently needed with two different approaches that have to be considered: (1) to include the 5 morphologically distinct non-Salvia genera in Salvia or (2) to split Salvia . into Salvia . and several additional genera. Since Salvia is already highly heterogeneous in species distribution, morphology, and chromosome number, we prefer to split the genus into molecularly well-supported clades. This new concept may facilitate monographic studies and more focused analyses of character evolution within or between the clades. Species representing Salvia sect. Eremosphace Bunge (subclade III-A) were chosen exemplarily to provide arguments for elevating this particular group to the level of genus (Pleudia Raf.). Key words: Pleudia Raf., Salvia aegyptiaca-group, Salvia sects. Notiosphace Benth. and Eremosphace Bunge, phylogeny, North Africa, Southwest Asia 1. Introduction The approximately 945 species placed in Salvia L. are highly diverse in distribution, ecology,

• Nông nghiệp
• Pleudia Raf
• Salvia aegyptiaca group
• Salvia sects
• Notiosphace Benth
• Eremosphace Bunge
• Dorystaechas hastata
• Journal of Botany
• Medicinal and aromatic plants
• Sequence related amplified polymorphism (SRAP)
• Inter primer binding site (iPBS)
• Cluster analyses
• Second eigen vectors