Two new species of Diospyros (Ebenaceae) from New Guine
Author
Puglisi, C.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW 9 3 AE, England, UK.
c.puglisi@kew.org
Author
Jimbo, T.
Papua New Guinea National Herbarium, Papua New Guinea Forest Research Institute, PO Box 314, Lae, Papua New Guinea.
Author
Hagwood, A.
College of Humanities and Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA.
text
Edinburgh Journal Of Botany
2022
2022-07-11
79
1
10
journal article
10.24823/EJB.2022.1879
685d3a9f-b0f7-4a6b-9d44-66c52a20967d
7374245
Key to
Diospyros
species from New Guinea and the Moluccas with large, chartaceous leaves
1a. Leaf glabrous above and reddish purple beneath, fruit fusiform with caudate apex
D. fusicarpa
1b. Character combination not as above _______________________________________________ 2
2a. Mature fruit globose to oblate, lobes of fruiting calyx very large and leafy, young leaves conspicuously hairy _______________________________________________________
D. pulchra
2b. Character combination not as above _______________________________________________ 3
3a. Leaf base subcordate, black pitted glands at leaf base conspicuous ________________ 4
3b. Leaf base acute to narrowly obtuse, black pitted glands inconspicuous to absent ___ 5
4a. Fruit densely colliculate, leaf apex broadly acuminate or acute, black pitted glands at leaf base small and not densely clustered, [Moluccas] _____________________
D. rostrata
4b. Fruit smooth, leaf apex narrowly acuminate, black pitted glands at leaf base densely clustered, [New Guinea] ___________________________________________
D. multimaculata
5a. Petioles <
5 mm
long, fruiting calyx 3-merous, fruit apex obtuse _________
D. janowskyi
5b. Petioles>
6 mm
long, fruiting calyx 4-merous, fruit apex acute _______________
D. tehno