The genus Trichoscypha (Anacardiaceae) in Upper Guinea: A synoptic revision
Author
Breteler, F. J.
text
Adansonia
2001
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journal article
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5180184
1639-4798
5180184
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Trichoscypha blydeniae
Breteler
,
sp. nov.
Trichoscyphae bijugae Engl.
affinis folio et floribus sessilibus sed differt pistillo piloso et disco cupuliformi intra et ad marginem superum piloso autem extra glabro
.
TYPUS
. —
Blyden
929
,
Liberia
,
Grand Gedeh
,
Tchien
, along road from
Zwedru
to
Sinoe
,
♀
fl. July (holo-,
WAG; iso-, K).
Small tree, ±
5 m
tall, trunk c.
5 cm
in diam. Branchlets velutinous-tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves 5-8-jugate; petiole, rachis and petiolules velutinous-tomentose, glabrescent; leaflets narrowly elliptic, 2.5-4 times as long as wide, (6-)12- 15(-20) × (2-)
3-6 cm
, rounded to shortly cuneate at base, acuminate, the acumen slender,
0.5- 1.5 cm
long; midrib impressed and hirsute above, prominent beneath, the (10-)13-16 pairs of main laterals ± plane above, prominent beneath, both with short hairs mixed with some long hairs, much less densely so on the main laterals, the remaining surface beneath sparsely appressedshort-hairy to almost glabrous. Inflorescence (sub)terminal, short-brown-hairy. Male flower unknown. Female flower: 4(-5)-merous, sessile; calyx appressed-hairy outside,
1-1.5 mm
long, the lobes half as long; petals ovate-elliptic, ± 2.5 ×
2 mm
, reflexed, usually hairy outside, especially so in a central band, glabrous inside; staminodes distinctly shorter than petals, ± as long as pistil; disc cupular, glabrous outside, hairy on margin and inside; pistil subglobose, ±
1.5 mm
high,
1.5- 2 mm
in diam.; ovary densely hairy; styles 4, ± appressed against ovary,
0.5-0.7 mm
long, the stigmas shallowly bilobed. Fruit ellipsoid, c. 1.5 ×
1 cm
, subappressed-brown-hairy. —
Figs. 5
,
9.
HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION. — Rain forest of
Liberia
.
PARATYPE
. —
LIBERIA
:
Versteeg & Jansen 794
,
Tchien, fr. Oct. (K, WAG).
NOTE
. —
This
species is named after
Miss Florence B
LYDEN, curator of the Harley Herbarium (LIB) in Monrovia at the time she collected the
type
specimen.