Claim · model-written summary
Four species were tentatively recognized: C. viminea, C. fargesii, C. laxiflora and C. londoniana.
- Taxon
- C. viminea
Carpinus vimineae0 - Outcome
- four speciese0
- Value
- four speciese0
Verbatim
e0“we tentatively recognized four species: C. viminea , C. fargesii , C. laxiflora , and C. londoniana”
Title
Zhi‐Qiang Lu; Yong‐Zhi Yang; Jian‐Quan Liu Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2024. doi:10.1111/jse.13044
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation The four species were mostly allopatric, apart from rare overlap of C. fargesii and C. londoniana.
- Observation Morphological delimitation, species boundaries and distributions differed from previous treatments.
- Observation Specimens formerly assigned to C. viminea belonged to three species.
- Observation Hybrids of C. fargesii and C. londoniana resembled C. viminea morphologically.
- Mechanism Local selection and geographic isolation may have promoted phenotypic and genetic divergence.
- Mechanism Interspecific hybridization blurs species boundaries by producing phenotypically similar hybrids.
