Coccochondra [SEP] parent taxon
Coccochondra
Coccochondra is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. There are four species native to the Guayana Highlands of northern South America.
These plants are low shrubs with tough leaves, small inflorescences of funnel-shaped flowers, and raphides in their tissues.
Species.
- "Coccochondra carrenoi"
- "Coccochondra durifolia"
- "Coccochondra laevis"
- "Coccochondra laevis" subsp. "laevis"
- "Coccochondra laevis" subsp. "maigualidae"
- "Coccochondra phelpsiana
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