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<mods:title>New species of Memecylon L. and Warneckea Gilg (Melastomataceae) from Madagascar and Mayotte</mods:title>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[157,385,755,781]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="346">Memecylon perditum</emphasis>
R.D.Stone
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(
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<emphasis box="[113,266,844,867]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="346">A speciebus ceteris</emphasis>
Memecyli madagascariensis
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combinatione foliorum obovatorum, cymularum breviter pedunculatarum ad axillas foliorum vel nodos aphyllos defoliatosve, florum usque 3 subsessiliumque ad par bractearum cucullatarum subtentorum cum floribus centralibus itidem bibracteolatis, connectivo antherarum dorsaliter glanduloso, fructuum globosorum
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diametro distinguenda.
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TYPUS. —
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(CAS, P).
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Evergreen shrub or tree
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high; branchlets terete and becoming ± thickened at the nodes; successive nodes alternately bearing normal leaves and floral bud scales (modified leaves); internodes
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long.Leaves with petioles
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long; blades thinly coriaceous, granular-rugose on both surfaces (when dry), obovate,
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long,
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wide, attenuate at base then decurrent with the petiole, rounded and obtuse or even slightly retuse at apex; only the mid-nerve clearly visible, canaliculate on the upper surface, ± prominent on the lower toward the base; transverse veins obscure or faintly visible on the lower surface, oblique relative to the mid-nerve. Cymes contracted, less than
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long, 1-3-flowered, borne either in the leaf axils, at the intervening (scale-bearing) nodes, or at the defoliated nodes of older branchlets; peduncles
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long, axes absent or very short; bracts persistent, lanceolate,
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long, acute to apiculate at apex, cucullate, connate at base; bracteoles subtending only the central flower, approximately the same length and shape as the bracts. Flowers subsessile (pedicels up to
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wide; calyx 4-lobed in bud, the margin becoming broadly sinuate and 4-microdentate at anthesis. Corolla acute to shortly acuminate in bud; petals violet, lanceolate-acuminate,
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wide, the base distinctly auriculate then short-unguiculate (claw to
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long). Anthers
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long, the connective narrowly conic-acute, the pollen sacs frontal and extending for about half the length of the connective on the ventral side, the dorsal gland elliptic and medially positioned; filaments not seen. Style
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long; ovules 16. Fruits slightly oblong when immature but becoming globose,
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in diameter, with persistent calycinal crown; epigynous chamber lacking radial partitions.
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In Jacques-Félix (1985a),
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<emphasis box="[942,1071,1294,1320]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="346">M. perditum</emphasis>
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would key to the group of species that includes
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<emphasis box="[1019,1133,1325,1351]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="346">M. bernieri</emphasis>
Cogn.
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,
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<emphasis box="[674,879,1357,1383]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="346">M. peracuminatum</emphasis>
H.Perrier
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, and
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<emphasis box="[1053,1209,1357,1383]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="346">M. bracteatum</emphasis>
Jacq.
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-Fél., on account of the anther connectives bearing a dorsal gland and the subsessile flowers each immediately subtended by a pair of bracts or bracteoles. The inflorescences of
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<emphasis box="[1033,1167,1484,1510]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="346">M. perditum</emphasis>
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appear most similar to those of
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<emphasis box="[978,1130,1516,1542]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="346">M. bracteatum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, except that in
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<emphasis box="[750,900,1547,1573]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="346">M. bracteatum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the bracteoles subtending the central flower are larger (2.5 ×
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) and ovate to suborbicular (not lanceolate). The leaves of
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<emphasis box="[677,825,1642,1668]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="346">M. bracteatum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are also very different in being lanceolate-acuminate (as are those of
<taxonomicName box="[996,1194,1674,1700]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Memecylon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="9" pageNumber="346" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="peracuminatum">
<emphasis box="[996,1194,1674,1700]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="346">M. peracuminatum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
<taxonomicName box="[113,319,217,243]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Memecylon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="11" pageNumber="348" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bernieri">
<emphasis box="[113,319,217,243]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="348">Memecylon bernieri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is like
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<emphasis box="[400,535,217,243]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="348">M. perditum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having leaves that are rounded at the apex, but its blades are narrowly oblanceolate (not obovate). The small, squamiform bracts and bracteoles of
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<emphasis box="[525,646,312,338]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="348">M. bernieri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also differ from those of
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<emphasis box="[378,512,343,369]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="348">M. perditum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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