Sararanga [SEP] parent taxon
Sararanga
Sararanga is a genus of flowering plants in the Pandanaceae family, with two species that occur in the northern part of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands. They are palm-like dioecious trees and shrubs, often called palms, but not closely related to palm trees. The scientific name comes from the species of these plants named "sararang" in the Solomon Islands.
Species.
- "Sararanga philippinensis" Merr., Publ. Bur. Sci. Gov. Lab. 29: 5 (
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