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The Ptilotus Murrayi Species Group: Synonymisation of P Swainsona 31: 93–100 (2018) © 2018 Board of the Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium (Adelaide, South Australia) The Ptilotus murrayi species group: synonymisation of P. petiolatus under P. murrayi and description of the new Western Australian species P. unguiculatus (Amaranthaceae) Timothy A. Hammer School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009 Email: [email protected] Abstract: The Ptilotus murrayi F.Muell. species group encompasses the morphologically similar P. murrayi, P. gomphrenoides F.Muell. ex Benth. and P. petiolatus Farmar. These three species overlap in distribution in Western Australia, where they are easily confused with one another. A critical examination of specimens shows that there are no consistent morphological characters to justify the separation of P. murrayi and P. petiolatus, and therefore the latter is formally synonymised under the former. Ptilotus sp. Edaggee Station (T.E.H.Aplin 3208) is found to be a distinctive new species and described as Ptilotus unguiculatus T.Hammer. Updated descriptions are given for P. murrayi and P. gomphrenoides. Keywords: Amaranthaceae, Australia, new species, Ptilotus, taxonomy Introduction expedition in the Hamersley Range (Fig. 1B). Farmar (1905) erected P. petiolatus from specimens collected Ptilotus R.Br. (Amaranthaceae) is a genus of c. 120 by E. Clement in north-western Western Australia in species native to Australia, mostly occurring in arid or 1897. He separated P. petiolatus from P. murrayi on semi-arid regions of Australia, with the highest diversity the basis that the former has inflorescences with acute in Western Australia (Hammer et al. 2015). A recent apices, shorter staminal filaments and larger anthers: molecular phylogeny by Hammer et al. (2015) resolved several molecular clades within the genus, including […] quod flores P. murrayi simillimus sed spicis acutis the large clade informally named ‘clade B’. Within filamentis brevioribus antheris majoribus differt clade B, Ptilotus murrayi F.Muell. and P. gomphrenoides Farmar (1905: 1089) F.Muell. ex Benth. were resolved as sister species. The morphologically similar P. petiolatus Farmar was not He went on to say that P. murrayi was incompletely included in the phylogeny (Hammer et al. 2015). known, and that only a few fragments (‘an inch in Together these species comprise the P. murrayi species length’) were available at K, however he felt confident that these differences were sufficient to erect the new group. species. Ptilotus murrayi was described by Mueller (1863) based Farmar (1905) also erected P. roseo-albus Farmar within on a type from Will’s Creek (the Diamantina River, this species group, differing from P. gomphrenoides in incorrectly noted in the protologue as ‘Cooper’s Creek’) having shortly pedunculate spikes (as opposed to long- near the border of South Australia and Queensland, pedunculate) and a denser abaxial sepal indumentum. collected by J. Murray on the Howitt expedition Within P. roseo-albus he described var. conglomeratus (Fig. 1A). Specimens of P. murrayi from Western Farmar, which differed from the typical variety in Australia were not available to Mueller, but he did having cylindrical inflorescences in clusters, as opposed mention having seen similar specimens from Western to conical and loosely arranged inflorescences. The Australia that had pedunculate inflorescences: two varieties of P. roseo-albus were recombined under P. gomphrenoides by Benl (1962) as P. gomphrenoides Vidi etiam specimina manca plantae persimilis ad var. roseo-albus (Farmar) Benl and var. conglomeratus montes Hamersley Range sub expeditione Francisci (Farmar) Benl, stating that the characters that Farmar Gregorii collecta, spicis pedunculatis praecipue used were common characteristics of P. gomphrenoides. divellenda. Hammer & Davis (2017) recently synonymised these Mueller (1863: 145) varieties under the typical P. gomphrenoides, as these varieties were found to intergrade imperceptibly into Bentham (1870) formally described P. gomphrenoides one another. Black (1923) described P. murrayi var. based on these pedunculate specimens from Gregory’s major J.M.Black from the Diamantina River, South Published online: 28 Sep. 2018 • flora.sa.gov.au/swainsona ISSN 2206-1649 (Print) • ISSN 2206-1657 (Online) T.A. Hammer Swainsona 31 (2018) A B Fig. 1. Comparative morphology of flowering inflorescences. A Ptilotus murrayi; B P. gomphrenoides. Photos: A K.R. Thiele; B R. Davis. Australia, on the basis of its larger leaves, longer Dampierland and five from the Pilbara IBRA regions. stems and inflorescences, and slightly longer sepals. Ptilotus gomphrenoides is also almost entirely sympatric This variety was synonymised by Bean (2008), who with P. murrayi in Western Australia, occurring in recognized that the characters attributed to P. murrayi the Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Pilbara, and northern var. major were within the typical variability of Murchison bioregions (Fig. 3B). Ptilotus sp. Edaggee var. murrayi. In a manuscript by Benl (unpubl.), Station (T.E.H.Aplin 3208) is known from a single P. petiolatus subsp. limbatus Benl MS was included collection on Edaggee Station, approximately 70 km as a manuscript name based on a specimen from SSE of Carnarvon, Western Australia and 75 km SW Edaggee Station, Western Australia (Fig. 2), which he of the southwestern-most record of P. murrayi, which primarily differentiated from subsp. petiolatus by the occurs near the Gascoyne River (Fig. 3B). new subspecies having clawed sepals. While the new taxon was never formalised, it was included under the During the construction of an online identification phrase name Ptilotus sp. Edaggee Station (T.E.H.Aplin key to all species in Ptilotus for the Flowering 3208) at the Western Australian Herbarium awaiting Plants of Australia project on KeyBase (available at evaluation of its taxonomic status. http://keybase.rbg.vic.gov.au/keys/show/6609), P. murrayi, P. gomphrenoides and P. petiolatus were The geographic distributions of taxa in the P. murrayi found to be difficult to discriminate due to unclear species group overlap significantly in Western Australia, morphological boundaries, which was also noted by and this, coupled with the strong morphological Burbidge (unpubl.) in a key constructed for Ptilotus. A similarities, has led to some confusion between them. thorough examination of the morphology of specimens Ptilotus murrayi has a disjunct distribution, occurring for each species was conducted to critically evaluate in Western Australia from Carnarvon, Gascoyne, the species boundaries within the group. This showed Murchison, Pilbara and Dampierland (Interim that specimens of P. murrayi and P. petiolatus could not Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, IBRA; be reliably separated, including those that Farmar had Department of the Environment 2018) regions and originally used to erect P. petiolatus. As a result, the later in south-western Queensland and north-eastern South name of P. petiolatus is here formally synonymised under Australia in the Mitchell Grass Downs and Channel P. murrayi. Ptilotus sp. Edaggee Station (T.E.H.Aplin Country IBRA regions. It has not been recorded 3208) is also assessed and found to be a very distinctive from the Northern Territory or north-western South species. The morphological differences between the Australia (Fig. 3A). Ptilotus petiolatus and P. murrayi are two accepted species in the P. murrayi species group sympatric throughout the range of the former. Ptilotus (i.e. P. murrayi and P. gomphrenoides) are clarified and petiolatus is known from 15 specimens, ten from descriptions are given for both. 94 Swainsona 31 (2018) The Ptilotus murrayi species group Material and methods P. petiolatus (0.3–0.6 and 0.3–0.5 mm, respectively), which ensure the anthers and stigma are raised above This study was based on the examination of dried these obscuring hairs. Furthermore, the bracteoles specimens of P. gomphrenoides, P. murrayi, P. petiolatus of P. sp. Edaggee Station are much longer and wider and P. sp. Edaggee Station (T.E.H.Aplin 3208) than the bracts (by c. 1 mm), while the bracts and housed at PERTH and specimens of P. murrayi on bracteoles of the other species are similar in size. These loan from BRI and AD, covering the geographic differences are sufficient to recognise P. sp. Edaggee range of all species. Scans of type specimens were Station (T.E.H.Aplin 3208) as a distinct species, and assessed through JSTOR Global Plants (https://plants. therefore P. unguiculatus T.Hammer is erected to jstor.org/). The specimens were critically evaluated accommodate it (see below). irrespective of current determinations and matched to the protologues and type specimens, and when Ptilotus murrayi and P. petiolatus can both be segregated necessary, specimens were re-determined as a result of from P. gomphrenoides in Western Australia by the latter this study. Care was taken to evaluate the specimens species having pedunculate inflorescences; peduncles based on their likely natural posture in the field, are short but present on some specimens (e.g. those and when available, label data were used to infer the previously included under P. roseo-albus). Ptilotus natural habit of the specimens. A distribution map of gomphrenoides could additionally be segregated from the the species was produced using georeferenced records other two species by examination of the midrib region retrieved from the Australasian
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