Xiquexique

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Xiquexique

Xiquexique Lavor, Calvente & Versieux in PlantNow 1(2): 63. 2020 sec. Lavor & al. 20201

• ≡Pilosocereus subg. Gounellea Zappi, Pilosocereus (Cactac.) gen. Brazil: 36. 1994 syn. sec. Lavor & al. 20201
• Type: Xiquexique gounellei (F.A.C.Weber) Lavor & Calvente

• 1. Lavor, P., Versieux, L.M. & Calvente, A. 2020: Phylogenetic relationships of Pilosocereus (Cactaceae) and taxonomic implications. – PlantNow 1(2): 52–70

Content

• Notes
• Distribution (Area)
• Distribution (General)
• Systematics
• Taxon standing
• Common Name
• Acknowledgments
• Citation
• Bibliography

Notes

Xiquexique is a replacement name for Pilosocereus subg. Gounellea Zappi, which has been shown as a lineage distantly related to Pilosocereus s.str. by molecular and morphological characters (Lavor et al. 2017, 2019; Romeiro-Brito et al. 2023).A,B,C

Distribution (Area)

Alagoas native

Bahia native

Ceará native

Maranhao native

Minas Gerais native

Paraíba native

Pernambuco native

Piauí native

Rio Grande do Norte native

Sergipe native

Distribution (General)

It is endemic to Brazil. Widely distributed in the Northeast of Brazil, typical element of the Caatinga ecoregion (X. gounellei, in seasonally dry tropical forest, SDTF), but also reaching adjacent ecoregions (e.g., X. frewenii in the Espinhaço Range).D,E

Systematics

Recent studies based on hundred of nuclear loci derived from target-enrichment and a comprehensive sampling of subtribe Cereineae have recovered Xiquexique as a sister lineage of Micranthocereus s.str. (Romeiro-Brito et al. 2023).C

Taxon standing

Category A: The genus is monophyletic based on a complete or very comprehensive phylogenetic study, and a phylogeny-based taxonomic synopsis was published.B

Common Name

xique-xique

Acknowledgments

Revised by Alan R. Franck & Matias Köhler

Citation

Köhler, M. 2021: Revisions of Airampoa, Brasiliopuntia, Opuntia, Salmonopuntia, Tacinga, Xiquexique. – In: Korotkova N. & al., Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org – a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family. – Willdenowia 51: 251-270. http://doi.org/10.3372/wi.51.51208

Bibliography

A. Lavor, P., Calvente, A., Versieux, L.M. & Sanmartin, I. 2019: Bayesian spatio-temporal reconstruction reveals rapid diversification and Pleistocene range expansion in the widespread columnar cactus Pilosocereus. – Journal of Biogeography 46: 238-250. http://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13481

B. Lavor, P., Versieux, L.M. & Calvente, A. 2020: Phylogenetic relationships of Pilosocereus (Cactaceae) and taxonomic implications. – PlantNow 1(2): 52–70

C. Romeiro-Brito, M., Taylor, N.P., Zappi, D., Telhe, M.C., Franco, F.F. & Moraes, E.M. 2023: Unravelling phylogenetic relationships of the tribe Cereeae using target enrichment sequencing. – Annals of Botany, ser. 5, 132: 989-1006. http://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad153

D. Taylor, N. P. & Zappi, D. 2004: Cacti of Eastern Brazil. – London: Kew Publishing

E. Zappi, D. 1994: Pilosocereus (Cactaceae): The genus in Brazil. – Succulent Plant Research 3: 1-160