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<mods:namePart>Johnson, David M.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Murray, Nancy A.</mods:namePart>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 33" captionStartId="F33" captionText="Figure 33. Xylopia unguiculata, X. acutiflora, and X. piratae. A-D, L-O X. unguiculata A Monocarp, lateral view B Seed C Leaves D Flower, lateral view L, M Staminodes, abaxial view N Stamen, abaxial view O Carpel, lateral view with ovary wall cut away to show arrangement of ovules E-G X. acutiflora E Monocarp, lateral view, attached to pedicel F Leaves G Flower, lateral view H-K X. piratae H Flower bud, lateral view I Leaves J Flower, lateral view K Fruit. A-B from Le Testu 1179 (BM) C-D from Reitsma &amp; Reitsma 1923 (NY) E-G from Beentje 879 (WAG) H-J from de Koning 4999 (WAG) K from de Wilde 356 (P) L-O from McPherson 16960 A (MO)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.97.20975.figure33" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/199118" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Fig. 33A-D, L-O</figureCitation>
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
Species resembling 
<taxonomicName family="Annonaceae" genus="X." kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="X. acutiflora" order="Magnoliales" pageId="173" pageNumber="174" rank="species" species="acutiflora">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">X. acutiflora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the tree habit, mixture of long and short erect hairs on the twigs, short pedicels 2.8-4.8 mm long, and outer petals up to 2.5 mm wide at midpoint, but differing in the cuneate to broadly cuneate leaf base and the strongly torulose monocarps with seeds in a single row and a prominent beak at the apex.
</paragraph>
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<typeStatus>Type</typeStatus>
.
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<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="1986-02-20" collectorName="J. M. Reitsma, B. Reitsma" country="GABON" latitude="-2.6" location="Forestry Camp Doussala" longLatPrecision="1307" longitude="10.583333" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Nyanga Province" typeStatus="holotype">
<collectingCountry name="Gabon">GABON</collectingCountry>
. 
<collectingRegion country="Gabon" name="Nyanga">Nyanga Province</collectingRegion>
, ca. 
<quantity metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.0" unit="km" value="50.0">50 km</quantity>
SW of 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:5F0C2891CFB6AC4BBB81CAA73F8C4E56:3AF8603A1C8BC214575183F9FA68F74E" country="GABON" latitude="-2.6" longLatPrecision="1307" longitude="10.583333" name="Forestry Camp Doussala" stateProvince="Nyanga Province">Forestry Camp Doussala</location>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="2" direction="south" minutes="36" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-2.6">2°36'S</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="10" direction="east" minutes="35" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="10.583333">10°35'E</geoCoordinate>
, 
<collectingDate value="1986-02-20">20 Feb 1986</collectingDate>
, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<collectorName>J. M. Reitsma</collectorName>
&amp; 
<collectorName>B. Reitsma</collectorName>
1923
</emphasis>
(
<typeStatus>holotype</typeStatus>
: WAG! [0050003]; isotypes: MO! [3879083], NY!
</materialsCitation>
<collectingCountry name="South Africa">RSA</collectingCountry>
!).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="173" pageNumber="174" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Tree</emphasis>
up to 17 m tall, rarely a shrub, d.b.h. up to 16 cm; bark smooth. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Twigs</emphasis>
brown, pilose-pubescent, with a mixture of dense hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long and sparser longer hairs 0.7-1.3 mm long, at length gray-brown to dark brown, glabrate, with the bark somewhat exfoliating; nodes rarely with two axillary branches. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Leaf</emphasis>
with larger blades 8.9-12 cm long, 3.0-4.5 cm wide, chartaceous, slightly discolorous, elliptic to somewhat oblanceolate, obovate, or oblong, apex acuminate, the acumen 4-13 mm long, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, glabrous except for the pubescent midrib adaxially, sparsely appressed-pubescent to glabrate abaxially; midrib slightly impressed adaxially, raised abaxially, secondary veins indistinctly brochidodromous, 8-14 per side, diverging at 45-75° from the midrib, these and higher-order veins plane to slightly raised adaxially, raised abaxially; petiole 2.5-6 mm long, canaliculate, sparsely pubescent. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Inflorescences</emphasis>
axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves, 1-flowered, densely pubescent; pedicels not pedunculate, 2.8-4.8 mm long, 1.4-1.5 mm thick; bracts 3-4, imbricate, persistent, 2.3-3.8 mm long, orbicular, apex rounded to emarginate; buds linear, apex obtuse. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Sepals</emphasis>
slightly spreading at anthesis, 1/4-1/3-connate, 2.8-3.9 mm long, 3.4-3.6 mm wide, coriaceous, broadly ovate, apex acute to obtuse, densely brown-tomentose abaxially. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Petals</emphasis>
white to pale yellow with a patch of purple on the adaxial base 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">in vivo</emphasis>
; outer petals slightly spreading at anthesis, 22-30 (-46) mm long, 3.4-4.5 mm wide at base, (1.4-) 2.2-2.5 mm wide at midpoint, coriaceous, linear, apex acute to obtuse, glabrous and somewhat verrucose on lower half but otherwise puberulent adaxially, sericeous abaxially; inner petals appearing bent outward at the base at anthesis, 15.5-25 (-29) mm long, 3.0-3.6 mm wide at base, 1.2-1.6 mm wide at midpoint, coriaceous, linear, apex acute, glabrous on proximal 1/3-1/2 but otherwise puberulent adaxially, puberulent except for the glabrous base abaxially. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Stamens</emphasis>
90-160; fertile stamens 1.2-1.9 mm long, clavate to narrowly oblong, apex of connective purple 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">in vivo</emphasis>
, 0.2-0.4 mm long, dome-shaped to shieldlike, overhanging the anther thecae, minutely papillate, anthers 9-13-locellate, filament 0.2-0.7 mm long; outer staminodes 1.2-1.9 mm long, clavate or oblong, apex obtuse to truncate; inner staminodes 0.8-0.9 mm long, clavate, apex truncate; staminal cone 1.9-2.1 diameter, 0.6-1.1 mm high, concealing the lower half of the ovaries, rim laciniate. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Carpels</emphasis>
10-15; ovaries ca. 1 mm long, oblong, densely pubescent, stigmas connivent except for the free apices, ca. 3 mm long, linear, glabrous except for tuft of hairs at apex. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Torus</emphasis>
flat, 1.8-2.5 mm in diameter. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Fruit</emphasis>
of up to 20 sparsely pubescent to glabrate monocarps borne on a pedicel 6.7-9 mm long, 3.3-6.5 mm thick, with sepals and bracts persistent, glabrate; torus of fruit ca. 8 mm in diameter, 5 mm high, depressed-globose. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Monocarps</emphasis>
with green exterior and red endocarp 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">in vivo</emphasis>
, 4.9-8.5 cm long, 0.8-0.9 cm wide, 0.7-0.8 cm thick, narrowly oblong, strongly torulose, almost moniliform, apex rostrate, the beak 2.5-6 mm long, strongly curved, base contracted into a flattened and grooved stipe 8-18 mm long, 1.9-2.1 mm thick, slightly wrinkled and verrucose; pericarp 0.1-0.3 mm thick. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Seeds</emphasis>
up to 8 per monocarp, in a single row, parallel or oblique to long axis, 11.9-12.4 mm long, 6.6-7.5 mm wide, 6.0-7.0 mm thick, oblong, more or less circular in cross-section, truncate at micropylar end, rounded at chalazal end, smooth or slightly bumpy, dull, raphe/antiraphe not evident, micropylar scar 3.3-4.6 mm long, 2.9-4.5 mm wide, broadly elliptic or roughly circular; sarcotesta unknown 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">in vivo</emphasis>
, sometimes forming a white crust on dried seeds; aril absent.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="173" pageNumber="174" type="phenology">
<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Phenology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Specimens with flowers have been collected in February, March, May, July, and December, and with fruits from October to December.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="173" pageNumber="174" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Distribution</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
(Fig. 
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). Gabon, with one collection from the northern part of the country near the border with Cameroon and the remainder from southern Gabon, in primary rainforest or exploited high forest, at elevations of 250-650 m.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Additional specimens examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<collectingCountry name="Gabon">GABON</collectingCountry>
.
</emphasis>
<collectingRegion country="Gabon" name="Nyanga">Nyanga</collectingRegion>
: 
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, 
<collectingDate value="1907-10-05">5 Oct 1907</collectingDate>
(fr), 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<collectorName>Le Testu</collectorName>
1179
</emphasis>
(BM, P); 
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<collectorName>du Mayombe</collectorName>
, 
<collectorName>Tchibanga</collectorName>
, 
<collectorName>Dabilila</collectorName>
, 
<collectingDate value="1908-11-15">15 Nov 1908</collectingDate>
(fr), 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<collectorName>Le Testu</collectorName>
1446
</emphasis>
(BM, P); 
<collectorName>Mayombe</collectorName>
bayaka, 
<collectorName>Dabilila</collectorName>
, 
<collectingDate value="1908-12-11">11 Dec 1908</collectingDate>
(fl), 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<collectorName>Le Testu</collectorName>
1514
</emphasis>
(BM-2 sheets, MO, P); 
<collectingRegion country="Gabon" name="Nyanga">
<normalizedToken originalValue="région">region</normalizedToken>
Nyanga
</collectingRegion>
, 
<collectorName>Tchibanga</collectorName>
, 
<collectingDate value="1914-12-08">8 Dec 1914</collectingDate>
(fr), 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<collectorName>Le Testu</collectorName>
1903
</emphasis>
(BM, P); chantier CEB, ca. 
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<quantity metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.0" unit="km" value="50.0">50 km</quantity>
SW of Doussala
</locationDeviation>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="2" direction="south" minutes="36" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-2.6">2°36'S</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="10" direction="east" minutes="35" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="10.583333">10°35'E</geoCoordinate>
, 
<collectingDate value="1985-08-26">26 Aug 1985</collectingDate>
(buds), 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<collectorName>Reitsma</collectorName>
&amp; 
<collectorName>Reitsma</collectorName>
1401
</emphasis>
(MO, NY, RSA)
</materialsCitation>
; 
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about 
<locationDeviation location="Doussala">
<quantity metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.0" unit="km" value="30.0">30 km</quantity>
NW of Doussala
</locationDeviation>
, in the direction of 
<collectingCounty>Bongo</collectingCounty>
, 
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.0" unit="m" value="400.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.0" unit="m" value="400.0">400 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
<collectingDate value="1988-03-16">16 Mar 1988</collectingDate>
(fl), 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<collectorName>de Wilde</collectorName>
&amp; 
<collectorName>Jongkind</collectorName>
9393
</emphasis>
(MO, WAG).-
<collectorName>Ogooue-Maritime</collectorName>
: 32 road-km N of 
<collectingMunicipality>Igotchi-Mouenda</collectingMunicipality>
, 
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timber concession, 
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.5" unit="m" value="250.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.5" unit="m" value="250.0">250 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="02" direction="south" minutes="41" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-2.6833334">02°41'S</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="10" direction="east" minutes="30" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="10.5">10°30'E</geoCoordinate>
, 
<collectingDate value="1977-05-13">13 May 1977</collectingDate>
(fl), 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">McPherson 16960</emphasis>
(MO), 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">McPherson 16960A</emphasis>
(MO).-Woleu-Ntem: 
<normalizedToken originalValue="région">region</normalizedToken>
<locationDeviation firstLocation="Ogooue" secondLocation="Cameroun, Mbabou">
entre 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Ogooué">Ogooue</normalizedToken>
et Cameroun, Mbabou
</locationDeviation>
, 
<collectingDate value="1933-07-31">31 Jul 1933</collectingDate>
(fl), 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<collectorName>Le Testu</collectorName>
9208
</emphasis>
(BM, K, P)
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<taxonomicName authorityName="D. M. Johnson &amp; N. A. Murray" authorityYear="2018" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ulmaceae" genus="Xylopia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Xylopia unguiculata" order="Magnoliales" pageId="173" pageNumber="174" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="unguiculata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Xylopia unguiculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
bears monocarps with distinctive claw-like apices; the specific epithet alludes to this apex shape. The illustration of the fruit identified as 
<taxonomicName family="Annonaceae" genus="X." kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="X. acutiflora" order="Magnoliales" pageId="173" pageNumber="174" rank="species" species="acutiflora">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">X. acutiflora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in 
<bibRefCitation author="Le Thomas, A" editor="Aubreville, A" journalOrPublisher="Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris" pageId="188" pageNumber="189" pagination="1 - 371" refId="B109" refString="Le Thomas, A, 1969. 16: Annonacees. In: Aubreville, A, Ed., Flore du Gabon. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris: 1 - 371" title="16: Annonacees." volumeTitle="Flore du Gabon." year="1969">Le Thomas (1969)</bibRefCitation>
shows the appearance of the apex well. The new species shares with 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">X. acutiflora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from West Africa a tree habit and a short pedicel covered by imbricate bracts. 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Xylopia unguiculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs, however, in its cuneate to broadly cuneate, rather than broadly cuneate to rounded leaf base, broader outer petals, and a larger number of falciform, strongly torulose monocarps with the prominent claw-like beak and seeds in a single row. [Note: The illustrations in 
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provided for 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Xylopia acutiflora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
show a mixture of two species, the flowers and floral parts being based on 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Bates 1852</emphasis>
, identified here as 
<taxonomicName family="Annonaceae" genus="X." kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="X. thomsonii" order="Magnoliales" pageId="173" pageNumber="174" rank="species" species="thomsonii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">X. thomsonii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and the fruits on 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Le Testu 1179</emphasis>
, identified as 
<taxonomicName family="Annonaceae" genus="X." kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="X. unguiculata" order="Magnoliales" pageId="173" pageNumber="174" rank="species" species="unguiculata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">X. unguiculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.]
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<paragraph pageId="173" pageNumber="174">
<taxonomicName authorityName="D. M. Johnson &amp; N. A. Murray" authorityYear="2018" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ulmaceae" genus="Xylopia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Xylopia unguiculata" order="Magnoliales" pageId="173" pageNumber="174" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="unguiculata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Xylopia unguiculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
may prove to be more widely distributed, but as known at present it is endemic to the 
<collectingCountry name="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congo</collectingCountry>
Subregion within the Congolian Biogeographic Region of 
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02728.x" author="Linder, HP" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Biogeography" pageId="188" pageNumber="189" pagination="1189 - 1205" refId="B112" refString="Linder, HP, de Klerk, HM, Born, J, Burgess, ND, Fjeldsa, J, Rahbek, C, 2012. The partitioning of Africa: statistically defined biogeographical regions in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Biogeography 39: 1189 - 1205, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02728.x" title="The partitioning of Africa: statistically defined biogeographical regions in sub-Saharan Africa." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02728.x" volume="39" year="2012">Linder et al. (2012)</bibRefCitation>
. It is of potential conservation concern, with an EOO of 
<quantity metricMagnitude="7" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.5417" unit="km" value="15417.0">15,417 km</quantity>
2 and AOO of 
<quantity metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.0" unit="km" value="20.0">20 km</quantity>
2.
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