Monoon merrillii (Kaneh.) I.M.Turner & Utteridge

Turner, Ian M. & Utteridge, Timothy M. A., 2017, Annonaceae in the Western Pacific: geographic patterns and four new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 339, pp. 1-44 : 28-29

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.339

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3851054

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DE2087F3-864B-F87C-B897-83E8FE9E8E85

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Monoon merrillii (Kaneh.) I.M.Turner & Utteridge
status

comb. nov.

Monoon merrillii (Kaneh.) I.M.Turner & Utteridge comb. nov.

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Basionym: Polyalthia merrillii Kaneh., Flora Micronesica View in CoL : 108–109, fig. 30 ( Kanehira 1933a). – Type: Palau, Tôdaiyama [Pelew Island], a small coral island near Korror, in primary forests at 200 m a.s.l., Aug. 1932, R. Kanehira 2025 (hololecto-, designated here: FU, sheet bearing the original field label mounted on the top left; isolecto-: FU, US 00098670; Fig. 15 View Fig ).

Regional distribution

Palau.

Notes

Originally published in Japanese, a Latin description appeared in print soon after ( Kanehira 1933b: 669– 670). The species is apparently still only known from Kanehira’s type collection and the flowers remain uncollected. Images were available to us of type material from the Herbarium of Kyushu University in Japan (FU), and US. The herringbone secondary venation with decurrent insertion to the midrib, scalariform tertiary venation and the form of the fruits indicates that the species belongs in Monoon rather than Polyalthia s. str., so we make a new combination for it here. Interestingly the Palau species has unusual asymmetic leaf bases similar to those of Monoon pachypetalum sp. nov. from New Guinea. The distinctly stipitate fruits of M. merrillii show that it is not the same species as Monoon pachypetalum sp. nov.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Magnoliales

Family

Annonaceae

Genus

Monoon

Loc

Monoon merrillii (Kaneh.) I.M.Turner & Utteridge

Turner, Ian M. & Utteridge, Timothy M. A. 2017
2017
Loc

Polyalthia merrillii

Kaneh., Flora Micronesica 1933
1933
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