Colurieae

'Lady Stratheden', a horticultural variety of Geum chiloense, from here.

Belongs within: Rosoideae.

The Colurieae is a clade of plants in the Rosaceae supported by molecular analyses. It was defined by Smedmark & Eriksson (2002) as all species more closely related to Fallugia paradoxa than to Rubus caesius, Filipendula vulgaris or Rosa centifolia. Members of the clade are mostly herbaceous perennials with a rosette of imparipinnate leaves and a thick caudex; species of Fallugia are small shrubs (Smedmark & Eriksson 2002). Members of the cosmopolitan genus Geum bear usually white or yellow flowers with numerous carpels and fruits with persistent styles (Allan 1961).

Colurieae
    |--Fallugia paradoxa EH03
    `--+--Waldsteinia EH03
       |    |--*W. geoides EH03
       |    `--W. fragarioides EH03
       `--Geum Linnaeus 1753 EH03, A61
            |--G. aleppicum H93
            |--G. canadense DH14
            |--G. chiloense PT01
            |--G. cockaynei D95
            |--G. divergens Cheesem. 1916 A61
            |--G. elatum var. elatum O88
            |    |--G. e. var. e. f. elatum O88
            |    `--G. e. var. e. f. rubrum O88
            |--G. heterocarpum C55
            |--G. leiospermum Petrie 1894 A61
            |--G. macrophyllum H93
            |--G. montanum R00
            |--G. nutans R00
            |--G. parviflorum Smith in Rees 1805 [incl. G. alpinum Buchan. 1887 (preoc.)] A61
            |    |--G. p. var. parviflorum A61
            |    `--G. p. var. albiflorum (Hooker) Allan 1961 (see below for synonymy) A61
            |--G. pusillum Petrie 1896 A61
            |--G. pyrenaeum Ramond 1800 R00
            |--G. renifolium Rafinesque 1840 MC74
            |--G. rivale R00
            |--G. sikkimense O88
            |--G. talbotianum Curtis in Morris & Curtis 1974 (see below for synonymy) MC74
            |--G. triflorum [incl. G. canescens, G. ciliatum] H93
            |--G. uniflorum Buchan. 1870 A61
            `--G. urbanum EH03
                 |--G. u. var. urbanum A61
                 `--G. u. var. strictum Hooker 1864 [incl. G. magellanicum Comm. ex Pers. 1805] A61

Geum parviflorum var. albiflorum (Hooker) Allan 1961 [=Sieversia albiflora Hooker 1844, G. albiflorum (Hooker) Cheesem. 1909; incl. G. aucklandicum Greene 1895, G. sericeum Kirk 1899] A61

Geum talbotianum Curtis in Morris & Curtis 1974 [=G. renifolium Mueller in Hook. 1857 non Rafinesque 1840] MC74

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[A61] Allan, H. H. 1961. Flora of New Zealand vol. 1. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. R. E. Owen, Government Printer: Wellington (New Zealand).

[C55] Candolle, A. de. 1855. Géographie Botanique Raisonée: Ou exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l’époque actuelle vol. 2. Librairie de Victor Masson: Paris.

[D95] Dawson, M. I. 1995. Contributions to a chromosome atlas of the New Zealand flora. 33. Miscellaneous species. New Zealand Journal of Botany 33: 477–487.

[DH14] Draney, M. L., J. A. Hegnet, A. L. Johnson, B. C. Porter, C. K. Justmann & P. S. Forsythe. 2014. Microhabitat distribution of Drapetisca alteranda, a tree trunk specialist sheet web weaver (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Journal of Arachnology 42 (2): 195–198.

[EH03] Eriksson, T., M. S. Hibbs, A. D. Yoder, C. F. Delwiche & M. J. Donoghue. 2003. The phylogeny of Rosoideae (Rosaceae) based on sequences of the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA and the trnL/F region of chloroplast DNA. International Journal of Plant Science 164 (2): 197–211.

[H93] Hickman, J. C. (ed.) 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press: Berkeley (California).

[MC74] Morris, D. I., & W. M. Curtis. 1974. Recent additions to the Tasmanian flora and some notes on nomenclature. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 50: 1–5.

[O88] Ohba, H. 1988. The alpine flora of the Nepal Himalayas: an introductory note. In: Ohba, H., & S. B. Malla (eds) The Himalayan Plants vol. 1. The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Bulletin 31: 19–46.

[PT01] Pemberton, L. M. S., S.-L. Tsai, P. H. Lovell & P. J. Harris. 2001. Epidermal patterning in seedling roots of eudicotyledons. Annals of Botany 87: 649–654.

[R00] Ramond, C. 1800. Suite des plantes inédites des Hautes-Pyrénées. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societé Philomathique de Paris 2 (42): 140–141.

Smedmark, J. E. E., & T. Eriksson. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships of Geum (Rosaceae) and relatives inferred from the nrITS and trnL-trnF regions. Systematic Botany 27 (2): 303-317.

Last updated: 12 September 2020.