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78 Bothalia 35,1 (2005) Omalycus (1814) predates Calvatia Fr. (1849) by 35 years, DOMINGUEZ DE TOLEDO, L. 1993. Gasteromycetes (Eumycota) del and its adoption to cover species of Calvatia would require centra y oeste de la Argentina. I. Analisis critico de los caracteres taxonomicos, clave de los generos y orden Podaxales. Dar- a considerable number of new combinations, something winiana 32: 195-235. which is highly undesirable. Since Calvatia is already a DURIEU DE MAISONNEUVE, M.C. 1848. Exploration scientifique nomen consen’andum, it would be logical to add Omalycus de I 'Algerie 1,10. Imprimerie royale, Paris. to the list of rejected names against it, which would not pre FARR, E.R., LEUSSINK, J.A. & STAFLEU, F.A. (eds). 1979. Index nominum genericorum (Plantarum), vol. II. Regnum vegetabile clude the use of Omalycus for a segregate including C. 101. Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema. Utrecht. cyathiformis. A formal proposal to that effect has been sub GREUTER, W„ MCNEILL. J„ BARRIE. 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Many of his families do not hang down), and alludes to the shape of the flow are still maintained in modem classifications. De Jussieu ers of C. royenii L., which are deeply cup-shaped. Codon based ‘Borragineae’ on the genus Borago L. He divided comprises two described species, C. royenii and C. 28 genera into three different groups using fruit mor schenckii Schinz, both endemic to Namibia and South phology as a distinguishing character: 1, berry-like fruits; Africa. A possible undescribed third species is found in 2, one- or two-locular capsules; and 3, four separate nut the southern part of Namibia and is currently under lets. He regarded Codon as a genus of uncertain position. investigation. Of the five genera of Hydrophyllaceae known to him. It was in France that a move towards more ‘natural’ De Jussieu (1789) assigned Hydrophyllum L., Phacelia groupings of plants was first made. It is clear from his Juss. and Ellisia L. to ‘Borragineae’ and Nama L. and writings that Linnaeus recognized natural affinities, but Hydrolea L. to ‘Convolvuli’. R. Brown separated the for that ease of classification and identification were his mer trio of genera as the natural order Hydrophylleae in main objectives (Gunn & Codd 1981). Michel Adanson’s 1810, and the latter two as the natural order ‘Hydroleae’ Families des plantes (1763-64) can be regarded as the in 1818. Choisy (1833) treated the Hydroleae in a mono Bothalia 35,1 (2005) 79 graph, recognizing the genera Hydrolea, Nama, Wigan- but they would most probably also require placement in dia Kunth and Romanzoffia Cham.; to these he added one or more additional subfamilies. Eriodictyon Benth. in 1846, and at the same time vigor ously defended the distinctness of the Hydroleae. De Phytogeographically the restriction of Codon to the arid Candolle (1846: 589) was the first to place Codon in the southwestern comer of Africa is of special interest. Its nearest family Hydrophyllaceae. Gray (1875) united all the gen relatives appear to be those members of Boraginaceae s. I. pre era mentioned in the family Hydrophyllaceae, which he viously placed in Hydrophyllaceae s. str., found mainly in divided into four tribes. Baillon (1890) merged Hydro North America, but with members of both Nama and phyllaceae under Boraginaceae, but his view was not fol Phacelia also occurring in South America (Deginani 1999). lowed at the time. Hydrophyllaceae was restored by Brand Among plants, African-New World distributions are rather (1913) in a monograph of the family. unusual, but for southern Africa, involve as many as seven families and many more genera (Goldblatt 1978). It is intrigu Until recently, most authors accepted the Hydrophylla ing that several other plant groups with a distribution pattern ceae as a separate family. A comparison between Hydro comparable to that of Codon, namely with a disjunct presence phyllaceae and Boraginaceae in southern Africa based on in southwestern and in northeastern Africa, show links with pollen and macromorphological characters, however, taxa in the New World. Among these are the boraginaceous shows a strong overlap of features. The surface structure of genus Wellstedia as well as members of Calliandra, Cae- pyrenes of Ehretia P.Browne shows similarity with the salpinia, Haematoxylon. Hoffinannseggia. Parkinsonia, Xero- seeds of Nama (compare Retief & Van Wyk 2001: 15 and cladia (all Fabaceae), Nicotiana (Solanaceae), Thartmosma Chance & Bacon 1984: 832), although this may not be (Rutaceae) and Tumera (Tumeraceae) (Van Wyk & Smith meaningful, as the outer surfaces in these two structures are 2001). These African-New World disjuncts may have been obviously not homologous. Of more significance is the established in different ways, but one possible explanation is likeness between pollen grains of Wellstedia Balf.f. and based on the proximity of Africa and South America during those of Eriodictyon, Nama and Phacelia (compare Gondwana times and for quite some time after the break-up Constance & Chuang 1982 and Retief & Van Wyk 2005); of the supercontinent. tapetal orbicules or Ubisch bodies—sporopollenin particles Members of the new subfamily Codonoideae, estab usually lining the inner tangential tapetal cell walls of secre lished here, show the strongest affinity with the subfamilies tory tapetums—of Wellstedia and Codon show similarity in Wellstedioideae and Ehretioideae in Boraginaceae s.l.—in morphology (Retief et al. 2001). The broad family concept similar pollen, inflorescence and trichome morphology. of Baillon (1890) is followed here, and we agree with the However, the Codonoideae differ from Wellstedioideae in Angiosperm Phylogenetic Group (APG) (i 998, 2003) and the 10 or 12 (not 4) corolla lobes and in the seed which is Langstrom & Chase (2002) who regard Hydrophyllaceae subglobose and glabrous (not truncate and pubescent). They and Lennoaceae as synonyms of Boraginaceae s.I. differ from Ehretioideae in habit in that they are annual or short-lived perennial herbs (not shrubs or trees) and in the Modem views on the delimitation of Boraginaceae fruit which is a capsule (not a drupe). differ, for example, 1, segregating a separate family, Heliotropiaceae (Diane et al. 2002) from Boraginaceae Codonoideae Retief & A.E. van Wyk, subfam. nov. s./.; or 2, recognizing several segregate families: Bora Type: Codon royenii L.