Brachysola [SEP] parent taxon
Brachysola
Brachysola is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 2000. It contains two known species, both endemic to the State of Western Australia.
- "Brachysola coerulea" (syn "Chloanthes coerulea" "Pityrodia coerulea" (F.Muell. & Tate) Ewart & Jean White)
- "Brachysola halganiacea" (syn "Chloanthes halganiacea" "Pityrodia halganiacea"
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