<documentID-CLB-Dataset="148919"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.209.87681"ID-GBIF-Dataset="58d1e9de-0675-4608-ad31-b168507bcf88"ID-PMC="PMC9848948"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2003-209-1"ID-Pensoft-UUID="2B9DFC7609F65C33A95B0065D5A5DBE2"ID-PubMed="36762125"ModsDocID="1314-2003-209-1"checkinTime="1663958886913"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Knapp, Sandra"docDate="2022"docId="E82C7698B55D5D79A7DECC97AA5C9341"docLanguage="en"docName="PhytoKeys 209: 1-134"docOrigin="PhytoKeys 209"docPubDate="2022-09-23"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.209.87681"docTitle="Lycianthes multifolia (Merr. & L. M. Perry) A. R. Bean, Austrobaileya 6 (3): 567. 2003."docType="treatment"docVersion="5"id="2B9DFC7609F65C33A95B0065D5A5DBE2"lastPageNumber="1"masterDocId="2B9DFC7609F65C33A95B0065D5A5DBE2"masterDocTitle="A revision of Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Australia, New Guinea, and the Pacific"masterLastPageNumber="134"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="1"updateTime="1732686511735"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<taxonomicNameid="D4EA67EC74E1F4A7748846464FD107D6"ID-CoL="8S78H"LSID="E82C7698-B55D-5D79-A7DE-CC97AA5C9341"authority="(Merr. & L. M. Perry) A. R. Bean, Austrobaileya 6 (3): 567. 2003."authorityName="(Merr. & L. M. Perry) A. R. Bean, Austrobaileya 6 (3): 567. 2003."class="Magnoliopsida"family="Solanaceae"genus="Lycianthes"higherTaxonomySource="CoL"kingdom="Plantae"lsidName="Lycianthes multifolia"order="Solanales"pageId="0"pageNumber="1"phylum="Tracheophyta"rank="species"species="multifolia">Lycianthes multifolia (Merr. & L.M.Perry) A.R. Bean, Austrobaileya 6(3): 567. 2003.</taxonomicName>
<figureCitationid="0BC665518D875A59C6989CAD35DA6AD6"captionStart="Figure 34"captionStartId="F34"captionText="Figure 34. Lycianthes multifolia (Merr. & L. M. Perry) A. R. Bean. Drawing by M. L. Szent-Ivany, first published in Symon (1985: fig. 16, as S. multifolium Merr. & L. M. Perry). Courtesy of the Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium (Adelaide, South Australia), reproduced with permission."figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.209.87681.figure34"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/746683"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">Figs 34</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="635EBA5AC1C605E304DD6B59BBB03305"captionStart="Figure 35"captionStartId="F35"captionText="Figure 35. Lycianthes multifolia herbarium specimen. Indonesia. Papua: Brass 12907 (isotype of S. multifolium, BM 000778109). Courtesy of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, reproduced with permission."figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.209.87681.figure35"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/746684"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">, 35</figureCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="7FA151DF23D10D1FD61C90E39A02B637"author="Symon, DE"journalOrPublisher="Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens"pageId="0"pageNumber="1"pagination="1 - 171"refId="B89"refString="Symon, DE, 1985. The Solanaceae of New Guinea. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 8: 1 - 171"title="The Solanaceae of New Guinea."volume="8"year="1985">Symon (1985</bibRefCitation>
Slender spindly shrubs 0.8-3 m tall,; stems terete, densely pubescent with stiff, antrorse 1-4-celled simple uniseriate trichomes 0.2-0.7 mm long, these persistent; new growth moderately pubescent with antrorse simple uniseriate trichomes like those of the stems, these denser along the leaf veins; bark of older stems pale tan, not markedly glabrescent. Sympodial units di- or trifoliate, the leaves geminate or with several leaves at a node, the leaves at a node differing in size but not in shape. Leaves simple; blades of major leaves 5.2-9(12) cm long, 1.5-3(5) cm wide, narrowly elliptic or less commonly elliptic, widest at the middle, discolorous, membranous; adaxial surfaces glabrous or with a few antrorse simple uniseriate trichomes along the midrib and scattered stiff 2-3-celled trichomes on the lamina; abaxial surfaces similar; principal veins 6-7 pairs, the midrib keeled above; base acute to attenuate; margins entire; apex acuminate; petiole 0.3-0.6 cm long, sparsely pubescent with trichomes like those of the stems; blades of minor leaves 1-4 cm long, 0.7-2.2 cm wide, similar in shape, texture and pubescence to the major leaves; base attenuate; margins entire; apex acute to acuminate; petiole 0.2-0.5 cm long, sparsely pubescent. Inflorescences axillary fascicles of 3 flowers, only one flower open at a time, pubescent like the stems; pedicels at anthesis 0.7-0.75 cm long, ca. 0.5 mm in diameter at the base, ca. 1 mm in diameter at the apex, slender and nodding, glabrous or with a very few simple uniseriate trichomes near the base, markedly less pubescent than the stems, articulated at the base; pedicel scars tightly packed in the leaf axils. Buds narrowly ellipsoid, the corolla strongly exserted from the calyx tube long before anthesis. Flowers 5-merous, perhaps heterostylous, the one flowering specimen (
) with all short-styled flowers. Calyx tube ca. 2 mm long, ca. 3 mm wide, open cup-shaped, winged or ridged from the veins, translucent and papery, glabrous except for a few simple uniseriate trichomes ca. 0.2 mm long, with 5 tiny nub-like appendages less than 0.5 mm long arising from very close to or at the rim. Corolla 1-4-1.6 cm in diameter, white, deeply stellate, lobed nearly to the base, interpetalar tissue present, the lobes 6-7 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, spreading, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces, but the attenuate tip densely papillate. Stamens equal; filament tube minute; free portion of the filaments 0.75-1 mm long, glabrous; anthers ca. 1 mm long, 1.1-1.25 mm wide, ellipsoid and slightly tapering at the tips, yellow, poricidal at the tips, the pores round, directed distally, not elongating with age. Ovary and style not seen in short-styled flowers. Fruit a globose berry, ca. 0.8 cm in diameter, red when ripe, the pericarp glabrous, thin, shiny, translucent; fruiting pedicels 1.4-1.5 cm long, ca. 0.75 mm in diameter at the base, ca. 1.25 mm in diameter at the apex, not markedly woody, orientation not known; fruiting calyx a spreading saucer at the base of the fruit, not markedly woody or rugose. Seeds 10-20 per berry, 4-4.5 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, flattened reniform, reddish brown, the surfaces deeply pitted, the testal cells pentagonal in outline. Stone cells absent. Chromosome number not known.
<figureCitationid="8A04084BCF6C27D0A25322A3C3F4F112"captionStart="Figure 36"captionStartId="F36"captionText="Figure 36. Distribution of Lycianthes multifolia."figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.209.87681.figure36"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/746685"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">36</figureCitation>
is known from only two widely separated localities; it clearly merits a threat status of Endangered (EN [B1,2a, b(iii, iv)]). The lowland forests where it occurs are within land use concessions (
<bibRefCitationid="B114ACF77F232DE7E1B012133B3BDECE"DOI="https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.763131"author="Parsch, C"journalOrPublisher="Rheedea"pageId="0"pageNumber="1"refId="B64"refString="Parsch, C, Wagner, B, Pangau-Adam, M, Nitschke, C, Kreft, H, Schrader, J, 2022. Papua at the crossroads: A plea for systematic conservation planning in one of the largest remaining areas of tropical rainforest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 5: 763131. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.763131"title="Papua at the crossroads: A plea for systematic conservation planning in one of the largest remaining areas of tropical rainforest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 5: 763131."url="https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.763131"year="2022">Parsch et al. 2022</bibRefCitation>
is relatively strongly winged or angled at the veins and has appendages arising from very near the rim, rather than from ca. 0.75 mm below the rim as in
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