Dasiphora [SEP] parent taxon
Dasiphora
Dasiphora is a genus of three species of shrubs in the rose family Rosaceae, native to Asia, with one species "D. fruticosa" (shrubby cinquefoil), ranging across the entire cool temperate Northern Hemisphere. In the past, the genus was normally included in "Potentilla" as "Potentilla" sect. "Rhopalostylae", but genetic evidence has shown it to be distinct.
The leaves are divided into five (occasionally three or seven) leaflets arranged pinnately, whence the name cinquefoil (French, "
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