Turraea fockei Buchenau

Callmander, Martin W. & Nusbaumer, Louis, 2024, Descriptions of ten new species of Turraea L. (Meliaceae, Turraeeae) from Madagascar with notes on the species described by Buchenau, Adansonia (3) 46 (11), pp. 103-128 : 124

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/adansonia2024v46a11

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12764123

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/160287FD-E37A-312B-8923-1A25FE7EF9ED

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scientific name

Turraea fockei Buchenau
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Turraea fockei Buchenau View in CoL

( Figs 11B View FIG ; 13 View FIG )

Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen 7: 15 ( Buchenau 1880). — Typus: Madagascar • Diana Region [Prov. Antsiranana], “Maevasamba, Nordwest”; 2.VI.1878; fl.; Rutenberg s.n. (holo-, BRNU Acc. no. 347830 image!).

Turraea anomala (O. Hoffm.) Harms in Engler A. & Prantl K., Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 3 (Abt. 4): 284 ( Harms 1896). — Basionym : Quivisia anomala O. Hoffm., Sertum plantarum madagascariensium: 10. 1881 ( Hoffman 1881), syn. nov. — Typus : Madagascar • Diana Region [Prov. Antsiranana], “N.W. Madagascar, Statio Ambohitsi (Ambergebirge)”; III.1880; fl.; Hildebrandt 3391 (lecto-, GOET[ GOET007857 View Materials ] image!, designated here; isolecto-, K[ K000432016 ]!, L[L.2162315]!, M[ M0108658 ] image!, P[ P00541881 ]!, designated here).

REMARKS

Turraea fockei can be recognized by its suborbicular leaves with domatia, solitary orange to pink flowers (rarely by two) with four petals and its tomentose calyx with bright yellow hairs ( Fig. 11B View FIG ).

Study of the original material of Turraea fockei shows that T. anomala first described in the genus Quivisia Comm. ex. Juss. by Hoffman (1881) has to be considered as a later synonym. No orginal material of the name Quivisia anomala is extant at B (Paule, pers. comm.). Therefore, the best preserved material at GOET is designated here as the lectotype.

Turraea fockei grows in the western dry deciduous forests of Madagascar. It has a quite large repartition from the tsingy of Bemaraha to the far north, east of Montagne d’Ambre ( Madagascar Catalogue 2024).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Sapindales

Family

Meliaceae

Genus

Turraea

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