Bordasia Notes

Bordasia bicornis Krapov.

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Bordasia is a recently described monotypic genus [a] recorded from Paraguay [1]. The generic name honours E.E. Bordas, one of the collecting team.

Details of the plant are not conveniently available, and I am therefore unable to describe its morphology or taxonomic affiliations. However, given that the issue of Bonplandia which contains the two papers [a, b] on this taxon retains the old family circumscriptions, as indicated by a paper referring to Ayenia as a sterculiaceous genus, I infer that it belongs to Malvoideae. The specific name may refer to the fruit morphology, schizocarps with projections being not uncommon among the tribe Malveae. Such a fruit morphology and its distribution in Paraguay (Malveae is most diverse in the Neotropics) would not be inconsistent with membership of Malveae.

References

1. IPNI

Bibliography

1. Krapovickas, Bordasia Krapov., nueva genero de Malvaceas, Bonplandia (Corrientes) 12(1-4): 133-135 (2003)
2. Cuadrado, Estudio morfológico del polen de Bordasia bicornis (Malvaceae), Bonplandia (Corrientes) 12(1-4): 135-140 (2003)

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