Huchimingia, a new genus segregated from Millettia (Leguminosae, Millettieae) based on morphological and molecular evidence
Author
Song, Zhu-Qiu
0000-0002-7763-2431
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, P. R. China & songzhuqiu @ scbg. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7763 - 2431
songzhuqiu@scbg.ac.cn
Author
Li, Shi-Jin
0000-0002-6596-5124
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, P. R. China & lisj @ scbg. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6596 - 5124
lisj@scbg.ac.cn
Author
Mattapha, Sawai
0000-0003-2911-0740
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Udon Thani Rajabhat University, Udon Thani 41000, Thailand & Indigoferasawai @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2911 - 0740
ndigoferasawai@gmail.com
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Phytotaxa
2022
2022-01-25
532
1
37
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journal article
2428
10.11646/phytotaxa.532.1.3
9cb10461-a420-4771-8a40-afec4ced8332
1179-3163
5900857
4.
Huchimingia trifoliata
(Dunn) Z.Q. Song
,
comb. nov.
≡
Millettia trifoliata
Dunn, J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
41(280): 165. 1912 (
Dunn 1912
).
Type:
MYANMAR
. Southern
Shan State
,
Polaw
,
2000 ft.
, on banks of streams,
Feb 1910
,
W. A. Robertson
126
(
lectotype
:
K
! [
K000848690
],
designated here
;
isolectotypes: BM! [BM012554430], K! [K000848687, K000848688, K000848689], L! [L.2054662], P! [P02141871]).
Description.
Trees; branches light grey, with white lenticels. Stipules caducous. Leaves alternate, Leaves alternate, imparipinnate; stipels absent; leaflets 3, papery, opposite, narrow oblong to oblong, 7.1–11.7 ×
3.1–4.5 cm
, length/ width ratio 2–3, base cuneate to round, apex acuminate to caudate, glabrous on both surfaces; principal lateral veins inconspicuous, curved apically near margins. Pseudoracemes laxly flowered,
4–10 cm
long, frequently ramous near the base, forming leafy pseudopanicle; brachyblasts very indistinct, each always with 2 flowers; rachis pubescent; bracts caducous; bracteoles absent; pedicel
0.9–1.1 cm
long, slender, pubescent. Flowers
1.7–2.1 cm
long; receptacle hollow, with distinct longitudinal ridges outside; calyx campanulate,
6.4–7.3 mm
high, pubescent outside and slightly hairy inside, 4-toothed; lobes triangular, ca 3.1–3.9 ×
3.1 mm
; petalswhite, glabrous; standard petal suborbicular, reflexed; wing petals oblong, ca 11.6 ×
3.1 cm
, base auriculate, apex obtuse, with a ca
5.5 mm
long claw; keel petalsfalcate, 9.6–10.5 ×
4.8–5.1 mm
, base truncate, apex obtuse, pocketed at side, with a ca
4.8 mm
long claw; stamens 10, diadelphous (maybe pseudo-monadelphous with 2 fenestrae at base), staminal tube ca
14 mm
high; disk absent; ovary linear,
12.7–13.6 mm
high, with 4 ovules, stipitate; stipe ca
3.2 mm
long; style
4.3–4.5 mm
long, incurved, glabrous; stigma small, capitate. Pod unknown.
Distribution and ecology.
This species is only known from a single
type
collection (Polaw, Southern
Shan State
,
Myanmar
) at an altitude of about
600 m
.
It flowers in February. Due to its inadequate information, this species is tentatively considered as ‘Data Deficient’ (DD) according to IUCN criteria (
IUCN 2012
).
Notes.
Huchimingia trifoliata
is a poorly known species. The species is clearly related to (or maybe identical with)
H. podocarpa
within the genus by having symmetric lateral leaflets, leafy pseudopanicles, longer calyx lobes, and 3–4 ovules per ovary, but it differs by having fewer leaflets (3 vs. 3–9) and larger flowers (17–21 vs.
15–18 mm
long).