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Taxonomic Split 101698 (Committed on 2021-11-21)

In November 2021 five new species of the once monotypic genus Ravenala have been described:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356069282_Description_of_five_new_species_of_the_Madagascan_flagship_plant_genus_Ravenala_Strelitziaceae

http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2021/11/ravenala.html

Since all individuals of the genus were previously identified as the only known species Ravenala madagascariensis, I am doing a taxon split for the genus in order to draw attention to the fact that the previous identifications aswell as new observations in Madagascar must be checked carefully.

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Added by kai_schablewski on November 22, 2021 12:05 AM | Committed by kai_schablewski on November 21, 2021
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Thomas Haevermans (whom I know) and team have made a great work about Ravenala classification. However, I am pretty sure that all Ravenala's observations outside of Madagascar, belong to R. madagascariensis. And this is a huge number of observations. But I don't know if it is possible to perform a geographic negative search (NOT in Madagascar) and apply a global taxon change to the numerous relevant observations. If this is not possible, this will be a tedious work to do...

Posted by chris971 over 2 years ago

@kai_schablewski can you make sure to add deviations when you curate away from our reference (in this case POWO which treats Ravenala blancii s sensu lato) thanks!

Posted by loarie about 2 years ago

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