Negriinae V.L.Woo, J.F.Smith & Garn.

Morel, Jérémie, Duminil, Jérôme & Munzinger, Jérôme, 2021, Bopopia, a new monotypic genus of Gesneriaceae (Gesnerioideae, Coronanthereae) from New Caledonia, European Journal of Taxonomy 736, pp. 82-101 : 87-88

Subtribe Negriinae V.L.Woo, J.F.Smith & Garn. -Jones

Emended diagnosis

To include Bopopia gen. nov., the diagnosis of the subtribe Negriinae is modified as follows:

Trees, 6–13 m tall; leaves glabrous or pubescent, entire or toothed, lanceolate to ovate, elliptic to obovate, 5–20 cm long × 2.5–11 cm wide; inflorescence an axillary cyme, peduncle short (0.5–1.5 cm) to long (3–14 cm), 1–3-flowered or an indeterminate thyrse with 3–5 levels of branching; flowers zygomorphic or actinomorphic, white, yellow or orange in color; stamens 4–5, anthers free or coherent; fruits (unknown in Bopopia gen. nov.) beaked, fleshy, and indehiscent, or dry, woody, two-valved, apically septicidally dehiscent, or four-valved, dehiscing septicidally plus loculicidally. Seeds (unknown in Bopopia gen. nov.) subglobose to elliptic, striated, 0.7–0.9 mm long, numerous; pollen spheroidal to mildly prolate in shape, 12–22 µm in diameter.

Genera included

Depanthus , Bopopia gen. nov., Lenbrassia , Negria .