Anchietea

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Malpighiales

Familia: Violaceae
Genus: Anchietea
Species: A. ballardii – A. exaltata – A. ferrucciae – A. frangulifolia – A. peruviana – A. pyrifolia – A. raimondii – A. sellowiana – A. suma
Name

Anchietea A.St.-Hil., Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 2: 252. 1824.
References

Paula-Souza, J., Zmarzty, S. & Pirani, J.R. 2010. Anchietea ferrucciae (Violaceae), a new species from the Brazilian Caatinga. Phytotaxa 7: 40–45. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.7.1.5 Paywall ResearchGate Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Anchietea in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Mar 12. Reference page.

Anchietea is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae, with six accepted species, found in tropical South America.

Description

Lianas or reclining shrubs with oblong-lanceolate to ovate leaves. The flowers, which may be unisexual or bisexual, are in axillary racemoids or fascicles, with a white to orange corollas that are strongly zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical) with the long bottom petal weakly differentiated with a well exserted (projecting) spur. On the five stamens, the filaments are strongly connate (fused) with the two lowest anthers calcarate (spurred) and possessing a small dorsal connective appendage that is entire and ovate. In the gynoecium, the style is rostellate (beaked). The fruit is a very thin walled bladder-like capsule. There are many seeds per carpel, that are orbicular in outline and strongly flattened and encircled with a low interrupted ridge, or broad wing.[5][6][7] The genus is characterized by membranaceous inflated capsules that usually prematurely expose the strongly flattened seeds to maturation.[8]
Taxonomy

The genus Anchietea was first described by Saint-Hilaire in 1824, with a single species Anchietea salutaris, which thus is considered the type species.[9] Therefore the genus bears his name, A.St.-Hil., as the botanical authority.[4] Shortly before this, Martius had described a species in a related genera, Noisettia pyrifolia.[10] In 1831, Don transferred this species to Anchietea, noting that the specific epithet pyrifolia referred to "pear-shaped leaves".[11][12] A revision of the genus in 2013 identified A. salutaris and A. pyrifolia as conspecific, and since A. pyrifolia had priority (as Noisettia pyrifolia) it is the type species.[12]

Early taxonomic schemes, primarily based on floral morphology, such as Bentham and Hooker (1862)[13] placed Anchietea within subfamily Violoideae, tribe Violeae, subtribe Violinae.[6][14] Anchietea is one of four lianescent genera in Violaceae, together with Calyptrion Ging., Agatea A.Gray and the more recently discovered (2003) Hybanthopsis Paula-Souza.[15] Historically, these genera were distributed among separate subtribes, with Anchietea within subtribe Violinae with Calyptrion and Hybanthopsis and Agatea in subtribe Hybanthinae.[5][14]

Molecular phylogenetic studies have now grouped these four genera together into a single lianescent clade, one of four within the family Violaceae.[7]
Etymology

The genus Anchietea is named for the sixteenth century Jesuit missionary and naturalist Joseph of Anchieta, who described the Brazilian flora.[11][16]
Species

Anchietea ballardii Paula-Souza
Anchietea exaltata Eichler
Anchietea ferrucciae Paula-Souza & Zmarzty
Anchietea frangulifolia (Kunth) Melch.
Anchietea pyrifolia (Mart.) G.Don
Anchietea sellowiana Cham. & Schltdl.

Estimates of the number of species in Anchietea has varied considerably between five[5][17] and nine,[1][2] but historically, the genus has been poorly described and new species have continued to be described. De Paula-Souza and colleagues, recognize six species,[18][8][7] having added A. ferrucciae in 2010 as a new description[8] and A. ballardii in 2016.[19][20]

Other species which have been previously accepted include A. peruviana Melch., which Paula-Souza treats as A. frangulifolia spp peruviana Paula-Souza, A. raimondii Melch. as A. frangulifolia spp. frangulifolia and A. suma (Vell.) Stellfeld as a synonym of A pyrifolia.[18]
Distribution and habitat

Extra-Amazonian South America, in the Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (SDTF) of South America.[19][21][2]
References

WFO 2019.
POTWO 2020.
IPNI 2020.
Tropicos 2020.
Ballard et al. 2013.
Byng 2014.
Wahlert et al. 2014.
Paula-Souza & Zmarzty 2010.
Saint-Hilaire 1824.
Martius 1824.
Don 1831.
Paula-Souza et al. 2013.
Bentham & Hooker 1862.
de Paula-Souza & Pirani 2014.
de Paula-Souza & Souza 2003.
Quattrocchi 2000.
Christenhusz et al. 2017.
Souza 2009.
de Paula-Souza & Pirani 2016.
Ohio 2016.

Paula-Souza & Pirani 2014.

Bibliography

Books and theses

Ballard, Harvey E; Paula-Souza, Juliana de; Wahlert, Gregory A (2013). "Violaceae". In Kubitzki, Klaus (ed.). Flowering Plants. 11 Eudicots: Malpighiales. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 303–322. ISBN 978-3-642-39417-1.(Also preview at Springer)
Bentham, G.; Hooker, J.D. (1862). "Violarieae". Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita (3 vols.). 1. London: L Reeve & Co. pp. 114–121.
Byng, James W. (2014). "Violaceae". The Flowering Plants Handbook: A practical guide to families and genera of the world. Plant Gateway Ltd. pp. 238–239. ISBN 978-0-9929993-1-5.
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Fay, Michael F.; Chase, Mark W. (2017). "Violaceae". Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants. University of Chicago Press. pp. 324–325. ISBN 978-0-226-52292-0.
Don, George (1831). "Anchietea". A general history of the dichlamydeous plants: comprising complete descriptions of the different orders...the whole arranged according to the natural system IV vols. 1. London: J.G. and F. Rivington. p. 340.
Paula-Souza, Juliana de; Pirani, José Rubens (2014). "A biogeographical overview of the "lianescent clade" of Violaceae in the Neotropical region". In Greer, Francis Eliott (ed.). Dry Forests: Ecology, Species Diversity and Sustainable Management. Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology. Nova Science Publishers. pp. 1–28. ISBN 978-1-63321-291-6.
Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). "Anchietea". CRC world dictionary of plant names: common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology. 4 vols. 1. A-C. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. 131. ISBN 0-8493-2673-7.
Souza, Juliana de Paula (2009). "Anchietea". Estudos filogenéticos em Violaceae com ênfase na tribo Violeae e revisão taxonômica dos gêneros Lianescentes de Violaceae na região [Neotropical Phylogenetic studies on tribe Violeae and taxonomic revision of the Neotropical Lianescent genera of Violaceae] (PhD thesis) (in Portuguese). Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo. pp. 65–120.

Articles

Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von (1824). "Noisettia pyrifolia". Nova genera et species plantarum :quas in itinere per Brasiliam MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I., Bavariae regis augustissimi instituto. 3 vols (in Latin). 1. Munich: Lindaueri. pp. 24–25.
Paula-Souza, J. De; Zmarzty, S. (July 2010). "Anchietea ferrucciae (Violaceae), a new species from the Brazilian Caatinga". Phytotaxa. 7 (1): 40–45. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.7.1.5.
Paula-Souza, Juliana de; Rubens Pirani, Jose; Hoffmann, Matthias H; Röser, Martin (2013). "Reappraisal of names and lectotype designations in the South American genus Anchietea (Violaceae)". Schlechtendalia. 25: 63–68.
de Paula-Souza, Juliana; Pirani, José Rubens (22 December 2014). "Reestablishment of Calyptrion (Violaceae)". Taxon. 63 (6): 1335–1339. doi:10.12705/636.7.
de Paula-Souza, Juliana; Souza, Vinicius Castro (July 2003). "Hybanthopsis, a new genus of Violaceae from Eastern Brazil". Brittonia. 55 (3): 209–213. doi:10.1663/0007-196X(2003)055[0209:HANGOV]2.0.CO;2.
de Paula-Souza, Juliana; Pirani, José Rubens (14 October 2016). "Novelties in Brazilian Anchietea A.St.-Hil. (Violaceae): A new species from inselbergs in the Atlantic rainforest and an update on the conservation status of Anchietea ferrucciae Paula-Souza & Zmarzty". Phytotaxa. 280 (1): 63. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.280.1.6.
Saint-Hilaire, A.F.C.P (1824). "Indication abrégée des plantes de la flore du Brésil méridional, qui appartiennent au groupe des Droséracées, des Violacées, des Cistées et des Frankeniées". Annales des Sciences Naturelles (in Latin). 2: 248–255.
Wahlert, Gregory A.; Marcussen, Thomas; de Paula-Souza, Juliana; Feng, Min; Ballard, Harvey E. (1 March 2014). "A Phylogeny of the Violaceae (Malpighiales) Inferred from Plastid DNA Sequences: Implications for Generic Diversity and Intrafamilial Classification". Systematic Botany. 39 (1): 239–252. doi:10.1600/036364414X678008. S2CID 86452033.

Websites

WFO (2019). "Anchietea A. St.-Hil. Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 2: 252. 1824". World Flora Online. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
POTWO. "Anchietea A.St.-Hil". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
IPNI. "Anchietea A.St.-Hil., Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 2: 252 (1824)". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
"Anchietea A. St.-Hil". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
"Brazil Researcher Names New Species After Colleague Harvey Ballard". College of Arts & Sciences, Ohio University. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.