Tovomita weddelliana Planch. & Triana
Creators: name: Molino, Jean-François
name: Sabatier, Daniel
name: Grenand, Pierre
name: Engel, Julien
name: Frame, Dawn
name: Delprete, Piero G.
name: Fleury, Marie
name: Odonne, Guillaume
name: Davy, Damien
name: Lucas, Eve J.
name: Martin, Claire A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Clusiaceae
Tovomita
Tovomita weddelliana

description: [396] Tovomita weddelliana Planch. & Triana   
 Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 4, 14: 277 (Planchon & Triana 1860). — Arawakia weddelliana (Planch.& Triana) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 148 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Clusia oblanceolata Rusby, Descr. S. Amer. Pl. 58 [20 Dec. 1920] (Rusby 1920). — Arawakia oblanceolata (Rusby) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 148 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita longicuneata Engl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58 (4, Beibl. 130): 7 [1 July 1923] (Engler 1923). — Arawakia longicuneata (Engl.) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 147 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita sphenophylla Diels, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 14: 32 [30 Mar. 1938] (Diels 1938). — Arawakia sphenophylla (Diels) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 148 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita lingulata Cuatrec., Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 20: 99. (Cuatrecasas 1950). — Arawakia lingulata (Cuatrec.) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 147 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita macrocarpa Cuatrec., Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 20: 100. (Cuatrecasas 1950). — Arawakia macrocarpa (Cuatrec.) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 148 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita rhizophoroides Cuatrec., Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 20: 101. (Cuatrecasas 1950). — Arawakia rhizophoroides (Cuatrec.) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 148 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita lanceolata Cuatrec., Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 20: 102. (Cuatrecasas 1950). — Arawakia lanceolata (Cuatrec.) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 147 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita glossophylla Cuatrec., Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 8 (29): 62 [Nov. 1950] (Cuatrecasas 1950). — Arawakia glossophylla (Cuatrec.) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 147 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Clusia pithecobia Standl.& L.O.Williams, Ceiba 1 (4): 244 (Standley & Williams 1951). — Tovomita pithecobia (Standl. & L.O.Williams) Gahagen, Syst.Bot. 40 (4): 985 [15 Dec. 2015] (Gahagen 2015). — Arawakia pithecobia (Standl. & L.O.Williams) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen.Evol. 134: 148 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita angustata Steyerm., Fieldiana, Bot. 28 (2): 399 (Steyermark 1952). — Arawakia angustata (Steyerm.) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 147 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita rileyi Cuatrec., Brittonia 14 (1): 52 (Cuatrecasas 1962). — Arawakia rileyi (Cuatrec.) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 148 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita coriacea Maguire, Phytologia 36 (4): 406 [22 Aug. 1977] (Maguire 1977). — Arawakia coriacea (Maguire) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen.Evol. 134: 147 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita caputmonsia Gahagen, Syst. Bot. 40 (4): 975 [15 Dec. 2015] (Gahagen 2015). — Arawakia caputmonsia (Gahagen) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 147 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita divesora Gahagen, Syst. Bot. 40 (4): 975 [15 Dec. 2015] (Gahagen 2015). — Arawakia divesora (Gahagen) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen.Evol. 134: 147 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita manchamancha Gahagen, Syst. Bot. 40 (4): 982 [15 Dec. 2015] (Gahagen 2015). — Arawakia manchamancha (Gahagen) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 148 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita panamaea Gahagen, Syst. Bot. 40 (4): 983 [15 Dec. 2015] (Gahagen 2015). — Arawakia panamaea (Gahagen) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 148 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 Tovomita parvifolia Gahagen, Syst. Bot. 40 (4): 983 [15 Dec. 2015] (Gahagen 2015). — Arawakia parvifolia (Gahagen) L.Marinho, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 134: 148 [publ. online Feb. 2019] (Marinho 2019).   
 NOTES. — Gahagen, Terbush & Ballard (2016) resurrected several names previously considered synonyms of T. weddelliana, and segregated 5 new species from what they called the “ T. weddelliana species complex”. Their study relied on “quantitative” analyses of morphological characters, based on two to 11 herbarium specimens per species. In our opinion, the number of studied specimens is too low to capture the natural variability of the morphological characters (e.g. twig diameter, pedicel length or leaf blade size). Moreover, the results of their statistical analyses are unconvincing and do not clearly distinguish their 11 so-called species, whose morphological differences could simply reflect the plasticity of a single species found from the Pacific coast to the Tepuis of the Guyana and slopes of the Andes, from 0 to 1300 m altitude. Subsequently, Marinho et al. (2019) segregated the “ T. weddelliana complex” in a new genus, Arawakia, on the basis of plastid and nuclear ITS genome analyses of 30 species out of the c. 500 that form the tribe Clusieae. However, their splitting of Tovomita into two main groups (one being Arawakia) appears much less supported (85-86 bootstrap values and 0.51- 0.66 posterior probabilities) than the monophyly of other genera (99-100 bootstrap/0.85-1 pp). Further, two of the five diagnostic characters thatMarinho et al. (2019) claim to distinguish Arawakia from Tovomita do not hold: - white latex, said to be characteristic of Arawakia (vs yellow in Tovomita), has been observed by the first two authors of the present publication in T. umbellata (J.-F. Molino 731 and J.-F. Molino 936, CAY), T. schomburgkii (D. Sabatier & M.-F. Prévost 1345, D. Sabatier & M.-F. Prévost 3354 and D. Sabatier & J.-F. Molino 4679, CAY) and T. caloneura (D. Sabatier & M.-F. Prévost 1363, CAY); - the sepals, said to be always persistant and adpressed on fruit in Arawakia (vs not adpressed in Tovomita) are actually not adpressed on fruits of the types of A. lingulata, A. macrocarpa and A. rileyi. The remaining characters Marinho et al. (2019) present do not warrant the creation of a new genus: two are purely vegetative (leaf shape and colour of the interpetiolar line, black in Arawakia vs not black in Tovomita), and the third is epicarp colour (red in Arawakia vs green to brown in Tovomita).   
 HERBARIUM DATA (FG). — 6 collections at CAY. Sel. exs.: D. Sabatier 5799.   
SIZE. — Up to 30 m tall (Cuello 1998).
description: Published as part of Molino, Jean-François, Sabatier, Daniel, Grenand, Pierre, Engel, Julien, Frame, Dawn, Delprete, Piero G., Fleury, Marie, Odonne, Guillaume, Davy, Damien, Lucas, Eve J. & Martin, Claire A., 2022, An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature, pp. 345-903 in Adansonia (3) (3) 44 (26) on pages 438-439, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2022v44a26, http://zenodo.org/record/7458777