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The Cutting Edge
Volume XII, Number 1, January 2005
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MONIMIACEAE. Jorge Gómez-Laurito (USJ). Monimiaceae, here
circumscribed according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group consensus
[see The Cutting
Edge 6(1):5-6, Jan. 1999], is a pantropical family of about 200 spp. in 22
genera, but with only Mollinedia represented in Costa Rica; Siparuna,
long classed in Monimiaceae, will be treated in Siparunaceae for the Manual. Both of
these genera present extreme taxonomic difficulties, hence Jorge's account of
Mollinedia is somewhat tentative; as he notes, "un estudio
monográfico de este género es absolutamente necesario para aclarar
su taxonomía." That said, he recognizes just three Mollinedia
spp. in Costa Rica: M. costaricensis Donn. Sm., the recently described
M. macrophylla J. F. Morales & Q. Jiménez [see
The Cutting Edge 4(1): 7, Jan. 1997], and M viridiflora Tul. (including
M. pinchotiana Perkins and M. minutiflora Standl. & L. O.
Williams). None of these is endemic, with M. macrophylla, rare and highly
localized in Costa Rica, now known from Panama to Ecuador [see
The Cutting Edge 5(2): 7, Apr. 1998]. No spp. are formally treated that are
cultivated, provisionally named, or of hypothetical occurrence, though the Panamanian
Mollinedia stipitata J. A. Duke is mentioned in the generic discussion as
potentially present in Costa Rica.
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