Bopopia, a new monotypic genus of Gesneriaceae (Gesnerioideae, Coronanthereae) from New Caledonia
Author
Morel, Jérémie
Université de Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France. DIADE, Université de Montpellier, IRD, Montpellier, France.
morel.jeremie63@gmail.com
Author
Duminil, Jérôme
jerome.duminil@ird.fr
Author
Munzinger, Jérôme
Université de Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France. DIADE, Université de Montpellier, IRD, Montpellier, France.
jerome.munzinger@ird.fr
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2021
2021-03-01
736
82
101
http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.736.1253
journal article
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Subtribe
Negriinae
V.L.Woo, J.F.Smith & Garn.
-Jones
Emended diagnosis
To include
Bopopia
gen. nov.
, the diagnosis of the subtribe
Negriinae
is modified as follows:
Trees,
6–13 m
tall; leaves glabrous or pubescent, entire or toothed, lanceolate to ovate, elliptic to obovate,
5–20 cm
long ×
2.5–11 cm
wide; inflorescence an axillary cyme, peduncle short (
0.5–1.5 cm
) to long (
3–14 cm
), 1–3-flowered or an indeterminate thyrse with 3–5 levels of branching; flowers zygomorphic or actinomorphic, white, yellow or orange in color; stamens 4–5, anthers free or coherent; fruits (unknown in
Bopopia
gen. nov.
) beaked, fleshy, and indehiscent, or dry, woody, two-valved, apically septicidally dehiscent, or four-valved, dehiscing septicidally plus loculicidally. Seeds (unknown in
Bopopia
gen. nov.
) subglobose to elliptic, striated,
0.7–0.9 mm
long, numerous; pollen spheroidal to mildly prolate in shape,
12–22 µm
in diameter.
Genera included
Depanthus
,
Bopopia
gen. nov.
,
Lenbrassia
,
Negria
.