208 ACTA BOT. CROAT. 80 (2), 2021 Acta Bot. Croat. 80 (2), 208–214, 2021 CODEN: ABCRA 25 DOI: 10.37427/botcro-2021-025 ISSN 0365-0588 eISSN 1847-8476 Habrosia (Caryophyllaceae) a monotypic genus endemic to Western Asia: morphological and molecular remarks Duilio Iamonico University of Rome Sapienza, Department of Planning, Design and Technology of Architecture, via Flaminia 72, 00196 Rome, Italy Abstract – Habrosia (Sagineae, Caryophyllaceae) is a genus that includes only H. spinuliflora, a species occurring in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey (Irano-Turanian floristic chorological element). Based on the available molecu- lar data published in 2011, Habrosia appears to be nested in a Minuartia-clade, which includes taxa currently recog- nized under the genus Sabulina. Consequently, Habrosia should be treated as a genus to be included in Sabulina. However, the molecular tree published in 2011 considered only 9 Sabulina members whereas, according to the current concept, Sabulina is a genus comprising about 65 species. Unfortunately, the molecular phylogeny including a larger Sabulina sample published in 2014 did not include H. spinuliflora and the taxonomic position of Habrosia remains, therefore, uncertain. With the aim of verifying the correct position of Habrosia in the tribe Sagineae with respect to its relationship to Sabulina, a comprehensive molecular investigation based on ITS sequences, linked to detailed mor- phological data, is presented. The results obtained revealed that Habrosia is not part of Sabulina. A detailed descrip- tion of H. spinuliflora, its ecological preference, and a distribution map are provided. Eventually, the name Arenaria spinulifolia (basionym of H. spinuliflora) is lectotypified on a specimen preserved at G (barcode G00212963). Keywords: Arenaria spinulifolia, Iraq, ITS, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, typification. Introduction The family Caryophyllaceae Juss. comprises ca. 100 gen- era and 3000 species, occurring mainly in the northern hemisphere (Hernández-Ledesma et al. 2015). Caryophyl- laceae is monophyletic as circumscribed by Bittrich (1993), but the traditional recognition of three subfamilies (Alsi- noideae Fenzl, Caryophylloideae Arnott, and Paronychi- oideae Meisner; see e.g., Bittrich 1993) based on features of stipules, petals, sepals, and fruits does not provide mono- phyletic groups and should be replaced with the tribe-based scheme as reported by Harbaugh et al. (2010) and confirmed by subsequent studies (e.g. Greenberg and Donoghue 2011). At genus rank, several studies have been carried out on Arenaria L., Minuartia L., Dianthus L., Gypsophila L., Polycarpon L., Silene L., etc. (see e.g., Kool et al. 2007, Iamonico 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, Dillenberger and Kadereit 2014, Iamonico and Domina 2015, Iamonico et al. 2015, Sadeghian et al. 2015, Dillenberger and Rabeler 2018, Madhani et al. 2018), but various questions are still open. As part of the ongoing studies on Caryophyllaceae (e.g., Iamonico 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, Iamonico and Domina, 2015), I here present a note about the monotypic genus Habrosia Fenzl [including the species H. spinuliflora (Ser. ex DC.) Fenzl], since some issues about its position in the tribe Sagineae J.Presl still need clarification. The aims of the research are: 1) to verify the correct position of Habrosia in the tribe Sagineae with special regards to its relationship to Sabulina, 2) to consider the morphology of H. spinuliflora in comparison with its position in the molecular tree, 3) to clarify the identity of the name of Arenaria spinuliflora Ser. ex DC. (basionym of H. spinuliflora). Materials and methods The present research is based on both the analysis of the relevant literature and the examination of the specimens preserved at BAG, G, MO, P, SAV, and W (codes according to Thiers 2021-onward). The ITS sequences, used for the alignment and phylo- genetic reconstruction, were publicly available in GenBank (see Smissen et al. 2003) and refer to 65 members of Sabulina Rchb., Colobanthus Bartl., Drypis L., Facchinia Rchb., Habrosia, Minuartia, McNeillia Dillenb. & Kadereit, * Corresponding author e-mail: d.iamonico@yahoo.it MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR REMARKS ON HABROSIA ACTA BOT. CROAT. 80 (2), 2021 209 Sagina L., and (outgroups) Bufonia tenuifolia L. and Cherleria garckeana (Asch. and Sint. ex Boiss.) A.J. Moore and Dillenb. RAxML v8.2.12 (Stamatakis 2014) was run under the GTRGAMMA model (bootstrapping was stopped automati- cally) for phylogenetic reconstruction. The distribution map was prepared using Google Earth Pro (2021). Data derive from both herbarium specimens and literature. The articles cited throughout the text follow the Inter- national Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Turland et al. 2018, hereafter as ICN). Results Literature data Arenaria spinuliflora Ser. ex DC., after its original de- scription in the 1st volume of Candolle’s Prodromus ( Candolle 1824: 406), was treated under the genus Arenaria up until 1833, when Fenzl (1833: 57) proposed transferring this taxon to the genus Alsine L. (note that neither morpholog- ical information nor a general reason about this nomenclat- ural choice was given by Fenzl 1833). No subsequent papers or monographs, in which Fenzl’s Al. spinuliflora was accept- ed, have been traced. Ten year later, Fenzl (1843: 323–324) validly described the new genus Habrosia to accomodate Candolle’s species, correcting his previous choice under Alsine. A detailed generic description was provided, as well as a diagnosis and description of his H. spinuliflora (Ser. ex DC.) Fenzl. The genus Habrosia has been accepted until to- day (see e.g., Hernández-Ledesma et al. 2015, Rabeler 2020). At suprageneric rank, Habrosia spinuliflora is currently to be included in the tribe Sagineae, together with Sagina, Colobanthus, Sabulina, and Bufonia Sauvage. Fenzl (1843: 326) proposed to treat his new genus Habrosia as belonging to a new subtribe (named “Habrosieae”) of the tribe Scler- antheae Link. In the same year, Endlicher (1843), proposed transferring Fenzl’s subtribe into tribe rank [Habrosieae (Fenzl) Endl.]. More recently, Novosel (1982) published “Habrosieae Novosel, tribus nov.” which would be morpho- logically similar to the tribe Pollichieae DC. (including the genus Pollichia Aiton) from which it would differ by the in- dehiscent fruit, absence of sterile branches, occurrence of petals in flowers, and 1-4 ovules [see the diagnostic key (steps 1-3) provided by Novosel 1982: 222]. According to Art. 6.3 (Note 2) of ICN, Novosel’s name “Habrosieae” is an isonym (and therefore invalid) being based on the same type (H. spinuliflora) of Endlicher’s name. The first authors to have included Habrosia in a molec- ular analysis were Smissen et al. (2003) in their study on the genus Scleranthus L. where Fenzl’s genus resulted to be sis- ter of Drypis. A more detailed study was carried out by Greenberg and Donoghue (2011) who investigated many samples of Cary- ophyllaceae members (630 accessions) and revealed that Drypis (a monotypic genus with Drypis spinosa L.) was ba- sal to a well-supported clade (bootstrap value: 91) including species of Sagina, Colobanthus, Minuartia, Habrosia, and Bufonia, plus Arenaria fontinalis (Short and R.Peter) Shin- ners. This clade corresponds to the tribe Sagineae. Dillenberger and Kadereit (2014), who investigated in detail the genus Minuartia, did not consider the genus Habrosia in their analysis. However, the species of Minuartia, included in the tribe Sagineae by Greenberg and Donoghue (2011), were treated by Dillenberger and Kadereit (2014) as belonging to the resurrected genus Sabulina Rchb. In con- trast to Habrosia, Dillenberger and Kadereit (2014) included Arenaria fontinalis in their analysis, which was also inves- tigated by Greenberg and Donoghue (2011), and confirmed that it is to be treated as a member of Sabulina and, in fact, a new combination, S. fontinalis (Short and R. Peter) Dillenb. and Kadereit, was proposed. Based on Greenberg and Donoghue (2011), Habrosia should be a genus to be included in Sabulina. Molecular data Greenberg and Donoghue (2011: 1642, Fig. 2) considered nine members of Sabulina (sub Minuartia spp.). However, according to the current concept, Sabulina is a genus com- prising ca. 65 species (Hernández-Ledesma et al. 2015, Rabe- ler 2020). As a consequence, the position of Habrosia in the ITS tree (clade Sagineae) published by Greenberg and Dono- ghue (2011) cannot be considered as conclusive. As discussed above (see paragraph “Literature data”), Dillenberger and Ka- dereit (2014) studied the majority of the Minuartia s.l. taxa, and included in their analyses the Sabulina clade by Green- berg and Donoghue (2011, sub Minuartia), reaching the con- clusion that these taxa are to be transferred to a different ge- nus, i.e. the resurrected Sabulina. However, Habrosia was not included in the study by Dillenberger and Kadereit (2014), and an indirect inclusion of Habrosia into Sabulina would represent a risk from the taxonomical point of view. All things considered, I decided to merge the molecular data of Dillenberger and Kadereit (2014) and Greenberg and Donoghue (2011) in a single matrix and run a new compre- hensive tree to verify if Habrosia is actually nested in the Sabulina clade or not. The results obtained (Fig. 1) reveal that Habrosia is not nested in the clade comprising the members belonging to Sabulina, but is in an unresolved po- sition outside of Sabulina. Morphological data Starting from important works by McNeill (1962, 1967), the genus Minuartia (at that time morphologically related to Arenaria), was later accepted by most authors until the molecular studies by Dillenberger and Kadereit (2014). These latter authors demonstrated that Minuartia is highly polyphyletic, and 11 different genera were recognized and later accepted by many authors (e.g., Iamonico 2014, Legler and Dillenberger 2017, Moore and Dillenberger 2017, Dillenberger and Rabeler 2018). IAMONICO D. 210 ACTA BOT. CROAT. 80 (2), 2021 Among the resurrected genera, there is Sabulina which comprises McNeill’s sects. Acutif lorae (Fenzl) Hayek, Alsinanthe (Fenzl) Graebn., Greniera (Gay) Mattf., Sabulina (Rchb.) Graebn., Sclerophylla Mattf., and Tryphane (Fenzl) Hayek, as well as Stellaria fontinalis Short & R.Peter (Dil- lenberger and Kadereit 2014, Hernández-Ledesma et al. 2015: 330). Sabulina can be morphologically distinguished in having the following characters (see Dillenberger and Kadereit 2014: 80-81): stems neither spiny nor quadrangular, leaves linear to subulate, flowers white without episepalous staminoids, nectary glands not cup-shaped, calyx not hard- ened at the base, sepals acute and 1–3-veined, petals usual- ly not exceeding the sepals, styles 3 and free, fruit dehiscent (capsule) 3-toothed. According to my examination of herbarium specimens, Habrosia differs from Sabulina by the following characters, which have a high taxonomic value in Caryophyllaceae (see e.g., Dillenberger and Kadereit 2014, Hernández-Ledesma et al. 2015): apex of the sepals [awned (awns about 2/3 as long as the membranous part of the sepals) in Habrosia vs. not awned in Sabulina], number of styles (2 vs. 3), and fruit [indehiscent (utricule) in Habrosia vs. dehiscent (capsule) in Sabulina]. Fig. 1. Maximum likelihood phylogeny based on ITS sequences obtained with RAxML under the GTRGAMMA model. Bootstraps values are shown. Arrow indicates the position of Habrosia spinuliflora (Ser. ex DC.) Fenzl. MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR REMARKS ON HABROSIA ACTA BOT. CROAT. 80 (2), 2021 211 Typification of Arenaria spinuliflora Arenaria spinuliflora Ser. ex DC. [basionym of Habrosia spinuliflora (Ser. ex DC.) Fenzl] was validly published by Candolle (1824: 406) who provided a short diagnosis and the provenance (“in Oriente”) and cited a syntype (“v. s. [ vidi sicco] comm. à cl. Rosseau”). Candolle (1824) reported “Ser. mss.” just after the binomial, so referring to an unpub- lished Seringe’s manuscript. Tropicos (2021) does not list the name Arenaria spinuli- flora, erroneously reporting “Habrosia spinuliflora Fenzl” and citing, as syntypes, a specimen at MO (barcode MO256214, available at http://legacy.tropicos.org/Im- age/59784) collected by T. Kotschy (no. 120) in Aleppo ( Syria) in April 20, 1841. However, not only did Fenzl (1843: 323–324) not propose a new species (rather a new combina- tion of Candolle’s name), but the cited specimen of Kotschy (MO256214) cannot be regarded as syntype (or included in the original material) since it was not cited by Candolle (1824: 406) but only by Fenzl (1843). Also The Plant List (2013) and IPNI (2021-onward) accepted the citation “Habrosia spinuliflora Fenzl” [note that The Plant List (2013) reported, as synonym of “Habrosia spinuliflora Fenzl”, the name Arenaria spinuliflora which is therefore (and wrongly) considered as heterotypic synonym]. Among the main on- line database of plant names, only POWO (2021-onward) correctly cited the name by Fenzl (1843) which is considered a new combination of Candolle’s name (basionym). I traced one sheet at G (barcode G00212963) bearing two plants which are clearly part of the same gathering. In fact, both the plants were collected by M. Rousseau in “Orient” in 1818. G00212963 is part of the original material for Arenar- ia spinuliflora, matches Candolle’s diagnosis (1824: 406), and it is here designated as the lectotype (Arts. 9.3 and 9.4 of ICN). In addition, an original label by Seringe (“A. [Arenar- ia] spinuliflora Ser.”) occurs on the right-corner of G00212963, supporting the choice of this specimen as lectotype. Taxonomic treatment Habrosia Fenzl., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 1: 323. 1843. Original type: Habrosia spinuliflora (Ser. ex DC.) Fenzl. Habrosia spinuliflora (Ser. ex DC.) Fenzl, Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 1: 323-324. 1843 (as “Habrosias-pinuliflora” which is a typographic error) ≡ Arenaria spinuliflora Ser. ex DC., Prodr. [DC.], 1: 406 (1824) ≡ Alsine spinuliflora (Ser. ex DC.) Fenzl, Vers. Darstell. Alsin.: 57 (1833), fig. 2). Lectotype (designated here) – Unknown country, Orient, 1818, M. Rousseau s.n. (G00212963!). Description – Annual herb, erect, 4–15 cm tall. Stems filiform, dichotomously branched, slightly purple in colour, glabrous to sparsely pubescent [trichomes short, uniseriate, multicellular, eglandular, see Chandra et al. 2019]. Leaves opposite, setaceous, 0.5–2.0(–2.5) cm long, up to 0.5 mm width, connate at the base, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, sessile, margins entire, apex obtuse. Stipules adnate to the margins at the base of the leaf, with membranous borders. Inflorescences 4–10-flowered, terminal, lax; bracts leaf-like, shorter than leaves (ca. 3 mm long). Flowers peryginous, on pedicels up to 6 mm long; sepals 5, glabrous, ovate-sublan- ceolate, 1.5–2.5(–3.0) mm long, 1(–3)-veined, membranous at the margins, apex awned, 2/3–1 as long as the membra- nous part of the sepals; petals 5, ovate-rounded, 1.0–1.5 mm long, shorter than sepals, white, entire; stamens 5, alternate to the sepals, with distinct glands attached to the adaxial surface extending in front of petal bases; styles 2, free, very short; ovary small, up to 1 mm long, subsessile, each ovary including 2 ovules. Fruit indehiscent nutlet, ovoid, ca. 1 mm long; seed 1 per fruit, globose. Pollen grain spheroidal, diameter about 27 μm, polypo- rate with 12–13 pores, each pore circular, in diameter about 4 μm, granulate; interpolar distance 5–8 μm. Exine ca. 3 μm thick, tectate. Sexine ca. 2.5 μm thick, punctulate. Tegillum < 0.5 μm thick with minute spines. Bacula broader at the apex than the base (Chanda 1962: 73–74, and Pl. 3, Figs. 10–12). Etymology – From the Greek Habros (χάβρος) which means “delicate, graceful”, presumably referring to the thinness of the plant, especially of stem and leaves. Fig. 3. Distribution map of Habrosia spinuliflora (Ser. ex DC.) Fenzl. Scale bar: 200 km. Fig. 2. Habrosia spinuliflora (Ser. ex DC.) Fenzl from Mardin, SE-Turkey. A – habit, B – detailed of the inflorescence (photo by Musa Geçit, @MusaGeçit). IAMONICO D. 212 ACTA BOT. CROAT. 80 (2), 2021 Vernacular names – Çöl kumotu (Turkish; Ekim 2012), Western Asian sandwort (English common name, here pro- posed). Habitat and phenology – Rocky limestone slopes, gullies, scrubs, calcareous steppe, arable field, open banks, 300–1500 m a.s.l. Flowering and fruiting times March to June. Distribution and chorology – NE Iran (see also Rechinger et al. 1988), N Iraq (see also Blakelock 1957, Ghazanfar and Edmandson 2016), C- and NW Syria (see also Boissier 1867, Post 1932), NE Lebanon (see also Musselman 2011), SE Tur- key (see also Davis 1988, Kaya and Ketenoğlu 2010, Bakis et al. 2011, Ekim 2012) plus Mt Taurus (Fig. 3). According to Takhtajan (1986), the distribution area of Habrosia spinuli- flora is included in the Irano-Turanian floristic region, West- ern Asiatic subregion, Mesopotamian Province. Additional specimens – Iran: Kurdistania Persica: mon- tes supra pagum Režab dit. Kasr-i-Širin, in lapidosis, 05 May 1910, F. Nábělek 4114 (SAV0005141!). Iraq: in montis Kuh-Se- fin reg. infer. Supra pagum Schaklava (ditionis Erbil), 1050 m, 15 May 1893, J. F. N. Bormüller 949 (P05380908!); ibidem (P05380911!); Mindan, 20 April 1947, Bradburne 44 (BAG); Khormal, Sulaimaniya liwa, 900 m, 21 April 1947, Rawi 8857 (BAG); Jabal Sinjar north of the town, Mosul liwa, 900 m, coppiced Quercus aegilops forest on limestone, localy abun- dant, 26 May 1948, C. C. Gillet 11091 (BAG); Acra, Mosul li- wa, 30 May 1948, Rawi 11305 (BAG); Bikhair Mt., 900 m, 03 July 1957, Rawi 23144 (BAG); Jabal Maqlub, 550-750 m, 17 April 1958, Shahwani 25204 (BAG); Serkupkan Village c. 7 km NW of Rania, on hillside, Rawi 28533 (BAG); Dokan, near water, hillside, 15 May 1971, Omar and Karin 38029 (BAG); 20 km to Dahuk, clay soil wheat field, 310 m, 15 April 1980, Al Kaisi 52008 (BAG); Jebel Sinjan, racky clay moun- tain, 16 April 1980, Al Kaisi 52034 (BAG); bidem, 18 April 1980, Al Kaisi 52224 (BAG). Lebanon: ad Antilibani radices occidentales, in declibvitatibus supra Baalbek, 1150-1300 m, 20 May 1910, J. Bornmüller 11506 (P05380909!); Baalbek, 11 May 1933, M. R. Gombault 2233 (P05110463!); ibidem (P05110464!). Syria: In collibus lapidosis pr. Aleppum, 20 April 1841, T. Kotschy 120 (P05049676!, as “Habrosyne spinufiflora”); ibidem (P00712781!); ibidem (P00712782!); ibidem (P00712783!); ibidem (MO256214!); Aleppo, in graminis, 1330 ped. (= feet), 24 March 1865, C. Haussknecht s.n. (P05380913!, the nineteen plants on the botton-half of the sheet); Syria borealis, Aleppo, 1865, A. de Bunge s.n. (P00712788!); Dans Djebel Belas, 28 May 1895, coll. illeg. 2964 (P05380913!, the seven plants of the top-half of the sheet); Alep., 1834, A. Montbret s.n. (P00712786!); ibidem (P00712787!); Alep., s.d., s.coll. 590 (P00712785!); Alep., s.d., A. Montbret s.n. (P05380910!). Turkey: Mont Taurus, 1837, M. Aucher-Eloy 590 (P00712784!); Birecjik: Djebel Taken, 30 April 1888, O. Stapf 461 (P05380912!); ibidem (P05380915!). Discussion The available molecular data for Habrosia placed this genus as sister of Drypis (Smissen et al. 2003) or Minuartia s.l. (tribe Sagineae; Greenberg and Donoghue 2011). More recently, Dillenberger and Kadereit (2014) resurrected the genus Sabulina in which to place the Minuartia species in- cluded in the tribe Sagineae by Greenberg and Donoghue (2011). Although Dillenberger and Kadereit (2014) did not consider the genus Habrosia in their analysis, Habrosia should be indirectly treated as a genus to be included in Sabulina based on published data. On the contrary, the phylogenetic tree obtained in the present study, which derives from a single matrix including the sequences by both Dillenberger and Kadereit (2014) and Greenberg and Donoghue (2011), shows that Habrosia cannot be merged with Sabulina and it should be left separate. This result highlights the relevance, in molecular analisys, of consid- ering all the taxa involved in the investigated genus and the related ones, especially in taxonomically critical groups as Minuartia s.l. (specifically Sabulina in this case). 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