― Present classification Araceae, recently Thomsoniae (Amorphophallus + Pseudodracontium) as a basal sister-clade to a clade consisting of the tribes Caladieae and Zomicarpeae.
― Close alliance plants/Origin taxa
Infraspecific classification
Groups 200 species with many with endemic nature.
Status It suggests that A. galbra needs further taxonomic revision and perhaps a redefinition of its species boundaries.
References Gong and Li, 2012; Sedayu et al., 2010; Bogner et al., 1994
Plant Hornstedtia scottiana
Taxonomic position
― Earlier classification The species included in the present work, Hornstedtia scottiana (F. Muell.) Schum, is found in New Guinea and Far North Queensland (Anonymous, 2008).
― Present classification Alpinieae tribe, Zingiberoideae subfamily
― Close alliance plants/Origin taxa
Infraspecific classification Hornstedtia scottiana, the only Australian species in this genus, is found in lowland rainforest communities in the Cook and North Kennedy pastoral districts of northeastern Queensland.
Groups The 24 species in the genus Hornstedtia occur in Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea and Australia.
Status
References Wohlmuth, 2008; Ippolito and Armstrong 1993
Plant Raphanus Sativus Var. Longipinnatus (Daikon)
Taxonomic position
― Earlier classification
― Present classification The genus Raphanus, an old world genus of tribe Brassiceae, var. niger or longipinnatus).
― Close alliance plants/Origin taxa Wild relative, R. raphanistrum
Infraspecific classification
Groups
Status
References Warwick, 2011; Campbell and Snow, 2009
Plant Petroselinum spp
Taxonomic position
― Earlier classification Complex morphological descriptions and intraspecific taxonomy containing subspecies, convarieties, botanical varieties and forms are available.
― Present classification Taxonomic of parsley (Danert, 1959).
― Close alliance plants/Origin taxa Convariety: Crispum radicosum (Alef.) Danert.
Infraspecific classification For the botanical taxonomy of parsley, the grouping of the leaf and the root parsleys fit well together with the molecular and the phytochemical data. The convarieties crispum (leaf types) and radicosum (root types) can be well separated. The intraspecific taxonomy of parsley must be revised based on the new knowledge of the molecular and phyto-chemical data.
Groups The parsley collection contains 220 accessions, including both morphological types, leaf parsley and root parsley, with modern and old cultivars as well as landraces. Molecular studies also show 2 clusters, one for the leaf parsleys and a second one for the root parsleys, together with some leaf parsleys.
Status Described botanical varieties (Danert, 1959) could not be found. Also, the forms are not clearly detectable (Lohwasser et al., 2010). The taxonomy of the lower levels needs further studies.
References Lohwasser et al., 2010
Plant Brassica spp. (Rutabaga)
Taxonomic position
― Earlier classification The name B. napobrasstca Mill. has also been applied to the swede and is recognized by Bailey. The swede turnip is commonly known as rutabaga and has been classified as B. napus var. napobrassica (L.) Reichb.
― Present classification Genus Brassica belongs to the Brassiceae. According to Prakash and Hinata (1980), rutabagas were known to the Greeks, whereas rapes were described in the low countries and England in the 18th century.
― Close alliance plants/Origin taxa Have an independent origin or domestication. Schiemann considered that rutabaga developed from var. oleifera forms by selection, but Olsson (1960), on the basis that rapifera forms can be synthesized directly from crosses between rapifera forms of B. rapa and B. oleracea, hinted at the possibility that rutabaga had swollen roots from its origin.
Infraspecific classification
Groups
Status Conclude that molecular and morphologic s are complementary and necessary to classify germplasms correctly and to clarify genetic relationships among cultivars.
References Soengas et al., 2008; Gates, 1950
Plant Lepidium meyenii
Taxonomic position
― Earlier classification Traditionally delimited, the Brassicaceae include about 340 genera and some 3,350 species distributed world-wide, especially in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
― Present classification The Brassicaceae, large genus Lepidium L, the members of tribe Lepidieae sensu Schulz (1936). The genus Lepidum belongs to tribe Lepidieae and section Monoploca of the Brassicaceae family (Thellung 1906) and consists of ~175 species (Mummenhoff et al., 1992) being the largest genus in the Brassicaceae (Hewson 1982). Maca (Lepidium meyenii Walp. in Nov. Act. Nat. Leopold. Carol. 19, Suppl. 1 (1843) 249) is the only species cultivated as a starch crop.
― Close alliance plants/Origin taxa Molecular data strongly support a sister relationship between Cleomoideae (Capparaceae) and Brassicaceae.
Infraspecific classification Several classification systems were proposed from the early 19th to the mid-20th century, the most notable of which are those of de Candolle (1821), Prantl (1891), Hayek (1911), Schulz (1936), and Janchen (1942). According to these systems, the Brassicaceae can be divided into anywhere from 4 to 19 tribes and 20 to 30 subtribe.
Groups 200 sps in Lepidium (approx.), monophyletic; extensive studies on Lepidium have clearly demonstrated the genus should include Cardaria Desv., Coronopus Zinn, and Stroganowia Kar. & Kir. and that the last 2 genera are polyphyletic. Based on such data and on a critical re-evaluation of morphology, Al-Shehbaz et al. (2002) united all 3 with Lepidium. In the genus, 3 other species are cultivated. Lepidium sativum L. is grown world-wide and is used at the cotyledon or seedling stage as a salad component. Dittander (L. latifolium L.) was a cultivated salad plant of the Ancient Greeks.
Status Recent molecular studies suggest that these taxonomic subdivisions mostly do not reflect phylogenetic relationships.