Botanica Pacifica. A journal of plant science and conservation. 2016. 5(2): 31–41 DOI: 10.17581/bp.2016.05204 Sillaphyton, a new genus of the Umbelliferae, endemic to the Korean Peninsula Michael G. Pimenov 1 *, Tatiana A. Ostroumova 1, Galina V. Degtjareva 1 & Tahir H. Samigullin 2 Michael G. Pimenov 1 * ABSTRACT email:
[email protected] Sillaphyton, a monotypic Korean genus, is described here for the first time. Tatiana A. Ostroumova 1 The new genus, based on the rare species Peucedanum podagraria H. Boissieu email:
[email protected] (= P. insolens Kitag.), is clearly distinct from Peucedanum s. str. (P. officinale L. and its Galina V. Degtjareva 1 closest relatives) as well as from Peucedanum s. l. segregate genera in fruit and leaf email:
[email protected] characters, as well as in nrDNA ITS sequence data. The carpological differences 2 relate to the pericarp structure and secretory system. On the other hand, ac cor Tahir H. Samigullin ding to molecular data Sillaphyton appeared to be closer to Arcuatopterus Sheh email:
[email protected] Men glan & Shan Renhwa than to Peucedanum and any its segregates. Arcuatopterus, de scribed as the Chinese endemics, belonging to Peucedaneae, now numbers six 1 Botanical Garden, Lomonosov Moscow species of SinoHimalayan distribution. The latter differs from Sillaphyton in a set State University, Vorobjevy Gory, Moscow of morphological and carpoanatomical characters. 119234, Russia Keywords: Apiaceae, Eastern Asia, fruit anatomy, nrDNA ITS, Korea, morphology, taxonomy, Peucedanum, Arcuatopterus 2 Department of Evolutionary Biochemistry, Belozersky Institute of РЕЗЮМЕ Physicochemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Пименов М.Г., Остроумова Т.А., Дегтярева Г.В., Самигуллин Т.Х.