Gossia kuakuensis, N.Snow, 2010
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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3883291 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13-FFCE-F529-1CC2-3816FBBD4050 |
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Gossia kuakuensis |
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Gossia kuakuensis View in CoL (Baker f.) N. Snow ( Figs 14 View FIG ; 15D-H View FIG ; 16A-C View FIG )
Austrobaileya 8: 181 (2010). — Psidium kuakuense Baker f., Journal of the Linnaean Society, Botany 45: 318 (1921). — Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov., Kuakué (= Kouakoué) , 13.V.1914, Compton 930 (holo-, BM [ BM000581652 ]). Psidium floribundum Vieill. ex Guillaumin, nomen nudum, Annales du Musée colonial de Mareille, sér. 2, 9: 150 (1911). — See discussion in Snow & Veldkamp (2010: 181) regarding this unpublished name.
Eugenia cataractarum Guillaumin, Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 85: 636 (1939). — Austromyrtus cataracarum (Guillaumin) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 503 (1941).
— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Secus ripus torentium prope Touho, Vieillard 2171 (lecto-, P [ P00602576 ] designated here; isolecto-, G, GH[GH00071539], P[P00751830]).
SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. North Prov., Näräjaa, Ponerihouen, 550 m, 26.III.2016, Fleurot 226 (P[P01168448]) ; Pente Sud du Mt. Kaala, 12. VI.1965, MacKee 12758 ( NOU [ NOU029641 ], P[P00462879, P00462880]) ; Pente Sud-Ouest du Mt. Kaala, 300-600 m, 10.IX.1967, MacKee 17490 ( NOU [ NOU029640 ], P[P02089978, P05094102) ; Massif de Tion-non , 800-900 m, 21.III.1968, MacKee 18516 (P[P02089982] ; Col d’Amieu-Ouambéa, 500-600 m, 31.III.1970, MacKee 21745 ( NOU [ NOU030905 ]) ; Bord des torrents, Wagape, Vieillard 2171bis ( BISH, P[P00462881, P00462882]) ; Bord des torrents à “Poinendu”, Vieillard 2218 (G[G00340965, G00340992, images seen], MEL n.v., P, 2 sheets) .
REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P02089978. ETYMOLOGY. — From the type locality.
DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Scattered on Grande Terre ( Fig. 14 View FIG ); in maquis on ultramafics or edges of dense moist forests over sedimentary volcanics, 100-600 m (but more data needed; see remarks). Flowering March through June; fruiting confirmed only for September.
DESCRIPTION
Shrubs or trees
1- 6 m.
Branchlets
Terete to compressed (the older branchlets with dark, rectangular flakes); internodes> 5 mm.
Leaves
Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 1.5-4 mm (or leaves sessile), sometimes slightly sulcate; blades (3-)4.5-9.0 × 3.0-6.0 cm, elliptic to broadly elliptic, base rounded to cordate or clasping, surface flat to somewhat creased along midvein, margin flat to slightly irregular, apex obtuse, midnerve above flush to slightly sulcate at base, secondary veins flush above, oil glands of lower surface dense but indistinct.
Inflorescence
2.5-8.5 cm, a dichasium, raceme or panicle, terminal or axillary; pedicels (1.5-) 4-11 mm; extrafloral bracts leaflike.
Bracteoles
1.5-4.5 mm, linear to narrowly elliptic, glabrous to sparsely sericeous.
Hypanthium
Obconic, 2.3-2.6 × (2-)3.4-3.8(-4.2) mm wide, surface smooth, glabrous; ovary apex glabrous.
Calyx
Lobes 5, 1.5-3 mm, broadly rounded, ciliate but otherwise glabrous, green.
Petals
4-6 × 3-5 mm, white, sparsely ciliate on margins.
Filaments
2.5-4.5(-6) mm; anther sacs c. 0.5 mm. Style 3-5(-6.5) mm, glabrous to sparsely sericeous.
Fruits
5.5-10 × 5.5-10 mm, subglobular to globular, base rounded, green when young (mature color unconfirmed); seeds 1-4.
REMARKS
The bark of branchlets and main trunk typically breaks into dark rectangular flakes, and the branches reportedly can be pendant. Some leaves on the holotype are atypically clasping. The peduncles in the inflorescence are glabrous but can be prominently striate.
We tentatively here include Fleurot 226 ( Fig. 16A-C View FIG in Näräjaa, Ponérihouen), although its leaves are sessile and slightly clasping, whereas other specimens have short petioles, and its fruits have 4-merous calyx lobes. Study of herbarium vouchers (unavailable before submission) will help determine its proper placement.
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Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute |
NOU |
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement |
BISH |
Bishop Museum, Botany Division |
MEL |
Museo Entomologico de Leon |
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Gossia kuakuensis
Snow, Neil 2020 |
Gossia kuakuensis
Snow 2010: 181 |
Burret 1941: 503 |
Guillaumin 1939: 636 |
Guillaumin 1911: 150 |