Pakaraimoideae [SEP] parent taxon
Pakaraimoideae
Pakaraimoideae is a subfamily of Cistaceae family of flowering plants with just one genus and a single species "Pakaraimaea dipterocarpacea", from Guyana, and Venezuela in South America. It is found in the Imbaimadai Savanna, the adjacent Partang Savanna, the Guaianan highlands and Pacaraima Mountains in Guyana and Bolivar State in Venezuela.
It was formerly placed in Dipterocarpaceae, but is now known to belong to Cistaceae
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