Abstract
THE GENUS Xanthostemon F. Mueller was published in Germany in 1940 and did not become available to us until about a decade later.My interest in this work is not so much in the New Caledonian species considered, which form the bulk of the described forms, and the few Australian ones, but rather in his treatment of certain Philippine, eastern Malaysian, and Papuasian species.He recognized forty-three species and a few subspecies and varieties, distributed into five newly proposed sections, Vesicaria, Brevistyla, Cylindrica, Bullata, and Campanulata, the latter subdivided into two subsections, Multiflora and Pauciflora.I do not criticize these minor categories.Like other revisions of its type it has the merit of a proposed system of classification, and of bringing together the widely scattered published data regarding all the species described up to 1940.One judges that perhaps certain obvious errors in nomenclature may be due perhaps more to a lack of critical editorial work on the manuscript than as wholly chargeable to a beginner who was working with a peculiarly difficult group of plants.In nomenclature the author was apparently misled by Pampanini's erroneous interpretation of the rules of nomenclature governing the validity of certain published binomials in 1905.The several cases are discussed under Xanthostemon speciosum Merr., X. pubescens C. T. White, XY. multiflorum (Montr.)Beauvisage, and X. gugerli: Merr.Xanthostemon is a genus of considerable significance from the standpoint of phytogeography.Its great center of diversification is New Caledonia, with a total of about thirty-three endemic species.Five species are recorded from northern and northeastern Australia, three from New Guinea, four from the Philippines, and one from Celebes (this Celebesian form also extending to Moena, Ternate and Batjan).To date no representative of the genus has been reported from any part of the Sunda or Lesser Sunda Islands, the latter group extending eastward from Java.Incidentally Gugerli's distribution map extends the range of the genus, within the Philippines, to northern Luzon, about 250 miles beyond the known actual range of the Philippine representatives.One problem, not solved by Dr. Gugerli, as he did not have access to certain historical material, was the status of Xanthostemon celebicum Koord.He merely quoted the original distinctly unsatisfactory
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
New Caledonia is the centre of diversification of Xanthostemon, with about 33 endemic species.
- Taxon
- Xanthostemon
Xanthostemone1 - Outcome
- endemic speciese2
- Value
- thirty-threee2
- Setting
- New Caledoniae2
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Verbatim
e1“Xanthostemon is a genus of considerable significance from the standpoint of phytogeography”
e2“Its great center of diversification is New Caledonia, with a total of about thirty-three endemic species”
Claim · model-written summary
Five Xanthostemon species are recorded from northern and northeastern Australia.
- Taxon
- XanthostemonXanthostemone1
- Outcome
- species are recordede3
- Value
- Fivee3
- Setting
- northern and northeastern Australiae3
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Verbatim
e1“Xanthostemon is a genus of considerable significance from the standpoint of phytogeography”
e3“Five species are recorded from northern and northeastern Australia, three from New Guinea, four from the Philippines, and one from Celebes”
Claim · model-written summary
Three Xanthostemon species are recorded from New Guinea.
- Taxon
- XanthostemonXanthostemone1
- Outcome
- species are recordede3
- Value
- threee3
- Setting
- New Guineae3
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Verbatim
e1“Xanthostemon is a genus of considerable significance from the standpoint of phytogeography”
e3“Five species are recorded from northern and northeastern Australia, three from New Guinea, four from the Philippines, and one from Celebes”
Claim · model-written summary
Four Xanthostemon species are recorded from the Philippines.
- Taxon
- XanthostemonXanthostemone1
- Outcome
- species are recordede3
- Value
- foure3
- Setting
- the Philippinese3
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Verbatim
e1“Xanthostemon is a genus of considerable significance from the standpoint of phytogeography”
e3“Five species are recorded from northern and northeastern Australia, three from New Guinea, four from the Philippines, and one from Celebes”
Claim · model-written summary
One Xanthostemon species is recorded from Celebes.
- Taxon
- XanthostemonXanthostemone1
- Outcome
- species are recordede3
- Value
- onee3
- Setting
- Celebese3
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Verbatim
e1“Xanthostemon is a genus of considerable significance from the standpoint of phytogeography”
e3“Five species are recorded from northern and northeastern Australia, three from New Guinea, four from the Philippines, and one from Celebes”
Claim · model-written summary
No Xanthostemon representative has been reported from the Sunda or Lesser Sunda Islands.
- Taxon
- XanthostemonXanthostemone1
- Outcome
- representative of the genus has been reportede4
- Setting
- Sunda or Lesser Sunda Islandse4
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Verbatim
e1“Xanthostemon is a genus of considerable significance from the standpoint of phytogeography”
e4“To date no representative of the genus has been reported from any part of the Sunda or Lesser Sunda Islands”
Claim · model-written summary
Gugerli's distribution map extends the genus range in the Philippines to northern Luzon, about 250 miles beyond the known range.
- Taxon
- XanthostemonXanthostemone1
- Outcome
- range of the genuse5
- Value
- about 250 milese5
- Setting
- northern Luzone5
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Verbatim
e1“Xanthostemon is a genus of considerable significance from the standpoint of phytogeography”
e5“Gugerli's distribution map extends the range of the genus, within the Philippines, to northern Luzon, about 250 miles beyond the known actual range of the Philippine representatives”
Claim · model-written summary
The author of the 1940 revision was apparently misled by Pampanini's interpretation of nomenclature rules, causing nomenclature errors.
- Taxon
- XanthostemonXanthostemone7
- Outcome
- nomenclaturee6
- Qualifier
- erroneous interpretation of the rules of nomenclaturee6
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Verbatim
e7“THE GENUS Xanthostemon F. Mueller was published in Germany in 1940”
e6“In nomenclature the author was apparently misled by Pampanini's erroneous interpretation of the rules of nomenclature governing the validity of certain published binomials in 1905”