Nageia [SEP] parent taxon
Nageia
Nageia is a genus of conifers belonging to the podocarp family Podocarpaceae. "Nageia" includes evergreen shrubs and trees, from one to 54 meters in height. A 2009 treatment of the genus recognized five species. Some authors consider "Nageia formosensis" to be a separate species from "Nageia nagi", thus recognizing six species. The podocarp genera have been reshuffled by various botanists. Most recently, several species formerly classed as "Nageia" were moved to the new genus "Retrophyllum", while "Nageia falcata
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of