Talk:Manjekia maturbongsii

Adonidia maturbongsii photos exist, if anyone wishes to upload:

http://storage.googleapis.com/powop-assets/kew_profiles/KPPCONT_068443_fullsize.jpg Ryoung 122 03:39, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Genotypic status uncertainty

To be more specific, several genuses have been suggested for this species, including:

http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/PALMS_AND_CYCADS/Family/Arecaceae/24878/Drymophloeus_veitchioides

http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/PALMS_AND_CYCADS/Family/Arecaceae/24877/Adonidia_maturbongsii

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77141215-1

So, we have three different taxonomic suggestions from fairly reliable sources.

It's not clear to me who decided which is the "correct" name. Neither have I yet seen a sufficient explanation for the varying names. However, given that the first is described as "former" and the other two appear to be used interchangeably, the inference is that adonidia is the mainstream view, manjekia is the alternate view, and drymophloeus is the former view. Ryoung 122 22:04, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Update: I've located further scientific research publication evidence to support that this species was transferred to its own monotypic genus in 2014.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yee_Wen_Low/publication/274066141_Adonidia_dransfieldii_a_threatened_new_palm_from_Sabah_Borneo/links/570224a208ae1408e15eb01f/Adonidia-dransfieldii-a-threatened-new-palm-from-Sabah-Borneo.pdf

Therefore, I've renamed the article. Ryoung 122 17:40, 25 April 2018 (UTC)