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Data from: Reevaluating monotypic Eleutherostylis from New Guinea and the Moluccas, and its inclusion in Grewia (Malvaceae: Grewioideae)

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Abstract

Morphological and molecular phylogenetic evidence indicate that Eleutherostylis Burret (Malvaceae: Grewioideae), a monotypic genus described from New Guinea, is best considered a synonym of Grewia L., a species-rich genus widespread across the paleotropics and found in Africa, Arabia, Asia, Australia, and the western Pacific. A new combination based on E. renistipulata Burret, G. renistipulata (Burret) Dorr, comb. nov., is proposed. Original material of the basionym could not be located and a neotype is designated. A lectotype is designated for G. morotaiensis Kosterm., a synonym of G. renistipulata.