Corynotheca [SEP] parent taxon
Corynotheca
Corynotheca is a genus of herbs in the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae, first described as a genus in 1878. The entire genus is endemic to Australia.
- Species
2. "Corynotheca asperata" - Western Australia, Northern Territory
3. "Corynotheca flexuosissima" - Western Australia
4. "Corynotheca lateriflora" - Northern Territory
5. "Corynotheca licrota" - Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia
6. "Corynotheca micrantha" - Northern Territory,
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