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<mods:title>A new Australian species of Luffa (Cucurbitaceae) and typification of two Australian Cucumis names, all based on specimens collected by Ferdinand Mueller in 1856</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Telford, Ian R. H.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Renner, Susanne S.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2011</mods:date>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152026114" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:D54753D256E0012CD845A737CF715D23" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/D54753D256E0012CD845A737CF715D23" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="27" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">
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<taxonomicName LSID="D54753D2-56E0-012C-D845-A737CF715D23" authority="F. Muell. ex I. Telford" authorityName="F. Muell. ex I. Telford" authorityYear="2011" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Luffa saccata" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="3" pageNumber="24" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="saccata" status="sp. nov.">Luffa saccata F. Muell. ex I. Telford</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="3" pageNumber="24">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Holotype.</paragraph>
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AUSTRALIA. Northern Territory: Baines Creek [=Baines River, a tributary of the Victoria River], May 1856,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">F. Mueller</emphasis>
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(MEL000593093!, the fragment pocket contains three seeds; isotypes: K000634638, K000634639, K000634640, the latter with a tag in
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Mueller’s">Mueller's</normalizedToken>
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handwriting '
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<taxonomicName authorityName="F. Muell. ex I. Telford" authorityYear="2011" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="3" pageNumber="24" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="saccata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Luffa saccata</emphasis>
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Ferd. Mueller. Tropical Australia. Victoria River. May 1856').
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="24">
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A
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="3" pageNumber="24" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="graveolente">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Luffa graveolente</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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floribus masculis longe pedicellatis in racemo elongato dispositis (nec brevissime pedicellatis subfasciculatis) et pedicellis fructiferis quam 15 mm brevioribus (nec plusquam 15 mm longis) differt. Our
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. a Habit of Luffa saccata F. Muell. ex I. Telford b Old fruits. Photos taken near the type locality, Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, by A. Rodd." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/9923" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Figs. 2</figureCitation>
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and
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Typical herbarium specimens of Luffa saccata: Sands 4499 (L)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/9924" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">3</figureCitation>
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.
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<caption httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/9923" pageId="3" pageNumber="24" start="Figure 2" startId="F2">
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="24">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Figure 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">a</emphasis>
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Habit of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="F. Muell. ex I. Telford" authorityYear="2011" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="3" pageNumber="24" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="saccata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Luffa saccata</emphasis>
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F.Muell. ex I.Telford
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">b</emphasis>
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Old fruits. Photos taken near the type locality, Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, by A. Rodd.
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<caption httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/9924" pageId="3" pageNumber="24" start="Figure 3" startId="F3">
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="24">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Figure 3.</emphasis>
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Typical herbarium specimens of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="F. Muell. ex I. Telford" authorityYear="2011" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="3" pageNumber="24" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="saccata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Luffa saccata</emphasis>
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:
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Sands 4499</emphasis>
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(L).
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Trailing or climbing annual herb, monoecious; stems to 7 m long, 2-3 mm diam.,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
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glabrous, ribbed. Tendrils 3-5-branched, the stem 4.5-8 cm long, branches 5-9 cm long. Leaves: petiole 1.5-6.5 cm long; lamina ovate to broadly ovate in outline, 3-14 cm long, 2.5-13 cm wide, with 3 or 5 broad rounded or obtuse lobes, the lobes crenate, base cordate with the sinus wide, apex acute, hispid on both surfaces. Inflorescences usually unisexual, rarely with male and female flowers. Male flowers in elongate racemes, rarely solitary; racemes 10-16-flowered, 3
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<normalizedToken originalValue="–10(–">-10(-</normalizedToken>
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30) cm long; peduncles 1.5-12 cm long; bracts ovate, 2-3 mm long, glandular; pedicels of racemose inflorescences 5-20 mm long, of solitary flowers 8-64 mm long; hypanthium broadly campanulate, 2-3 mm long; calyx lobes 5, triangular, 4-10 mm long, puberulous abaxially; corolla lobes 5,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="ovate–broadly">ovate-broadly</normalizedToken>
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spathulate, 12-20 mm long,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
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glabrous, yellow; stamens 3, inserted towards the base of the hypanthium; anthers one 1-thecous, two 2-thecous, flexuose; disc absent. Female flowers: solitary, sometimes paired in axils; pedicels 3
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<normalizedToken originalValue="–15(–">-15(-</normalizedToken>
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20) mm long; ovary ovoid, 8-12 mm long, long-attenuate, pilose, shortly echinate; hypanthium above the constriction and perianth similar to male; staminodes 3; style c. 3 mm long; stigmas 3, 2-lobed, c. 2 mm long. Fruit ovoid, 2.5-4.5 cm long, 2-4 cm diam., glabrescent, echinate, many-seeded, dehiscing by an apical operculum; fruiting pedicel 2
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<normalizedToken originalValue="–15(–">-15(-</normalizedToken>
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20) mm long. Seeds elliptic, 7-8 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, smooth or slightly rugose, dark brown mottled black, the margin narrowly winged.
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<subSubSection lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="25" pageId="3" pageNumber="24" type="representative specimens examined">
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Representative specimens examined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="25" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">
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AUSTRALIA. Western Australia: Fitzroy River floodplain, river road from Minnie River bridge to Udialla homestead, 27 Apr
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<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="25" start="start">.</pageBreakToken>
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1993,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">A.A. Mitchell 3040</emphasis>
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(CANB); Geikie Gorge, mouth of gorge, 14 May, 1992,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">I.R. Telford 11721</emphasis>
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(CANB); Napier Range, flood plain of Lennard River within Windjana Gorge, 23 Apr. 1988,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">M.J.S. Sands 4499</emphasis>
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(K, L, PERTH); Napier Range, Tunnel Creek, 8 Apr. 1988,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">C.R. Dunlop 7757</emphasis>
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(BRI, DNA); c. 2 km SW of Crystal Heads,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">A.A. Mitchell 3352</emphasis>
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(CANB, PERTH); Mitchell River Falls, Mitchell Plateau, 22 Jan. 1982,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">K.F. Kenneally 7896</emphasis>
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(BRI, PERTH); Lower Ord River, 4 km W of Tarara Bar, 6 July 1994,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">K.F. Kenneally 11519</emphasis>
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(CANB, PERTH); Ord River,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">C.R. Dunlop</emphasis>
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, seeds cultivated at Bloomington University,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">C.B. Heiser 1979</emphasis>
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(IU). Northern Territory: Victoria River, 12 km W of Timber Creek, 14 Jul. 1977,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">J. Must 1630</emphasis>
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(BRI, CANB, DNA, NT); Lejeune Station, Barramundi Dam, 21 Feb. 1994,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">G.J. Leach 4086</emphasis>
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(BRI, DNA); Wickham River,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">J. Russell-Smith 7752 & D.E. Lucas</emphasis>
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(BRI, CANB, DNA); McArthur River area, sandstone plateau above Glyde River, 17 Feb. 1977,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">L.A. Craven 3898</emphasis>
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(CANB, DNA).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="26" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="25">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="26" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">
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Widespread in the Kimberley, Western Australia and the adjacent north-western Northern Territory, with a disjunction to the McArthur River area of the Northern Territory.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Australia’s">Australia's</normalizedToken>
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Virtual Herbarium (http://avh.rbg.vic.gov.au/avh/
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<pageBreakToken pageId="5" pageNumber="26" start="start">accessed</pageBreakToken>
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23 March 2011) provides locations for some 50 collections in Australian herbaria, still under the name
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="graveolens">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="26">Luffa graveolens</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="27" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" type="habitat">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="26">Habitat.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="27" pageId="5" pageNumber="26">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="F. Muell. ex I. Telford" authorityYear="2011" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="saccata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="26">Luffa saccata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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grows in riverine or littoral habitats on sand or clay, sometimes on rocky ridges of limestone or sandstone to 300 m of altitude. Associated species recorded include
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Eucalyptus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtiflorae" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="camaldulensis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="26">Eucalyptus camaldulensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tachinidae" genus="Melaleuca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Diptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leucadendra">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="26">Melaleuca leucadendra</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName class="Strophomenata" family="Linoproductidae" genus="Barringtonia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Productida" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" phylum="Brachiopoda" rank="species" species="acutangula">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="26">Barringtonia acutangula</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<pageBreakToken pageId="6" pageNumber="27" start="start">in</pageBreakToken>
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gallery forest or woodland, and
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Eucalyptus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Myrtiflorae" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="miniata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Eucalyptus miniata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Adansonia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Araneae" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gregorii">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Adansonia gregorii</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName class="Rosopsida" family="Malvaceae" genus="Brachychiton" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Malvales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Brachychiton</emphasis>
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spp. and
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<taxonomicName class="Hexapoda" family="Hepialidae" genus="Triodia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Triodia</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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spp. on ridges and littoral
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Poaceae" genus="Cenchrus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Poales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Cenchrus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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grassland.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Phenology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Flowers and fruits March to October.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Conservation Status.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="27">The species is widespread and common, and we therefore do not consider it at risk. Conserved in Mitchell River and Bungle Bungle Ntional Parks in Western Australia and Gregory National Park in the Northern Territory.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Etymology.</paragraph>
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From Latin
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">saccatus,</emphasis>
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bag-like, obviously in reference to the fruit (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. a Habit of Luffa saccata F. Muell. ex I. Telford b Old fruits. Photos taken near the type locality, Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, by A. Rodd." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/9923" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Figs 2</figureCitation>
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,
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Typical herbarium specimens of Luffa saccata: Sands 4499 (L)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/9924" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">3</figureCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Notes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="27">
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The MEL holotype has two labels in
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handwriting, one with '
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<taxonomicName authorityName="F. Muell. ex I. Telford" authorityYear="2011" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="saccata">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa saccata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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Baines Creek, May 1856', the other with '
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="graveolens">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa graveolens</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, Tributaries of the Victoria River, N.W. Australia, May 1856,' the latter obviously attached after communication with, or reading of,
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<bibRefCitation author="Naudin, CV" journalOrPublisher="Revue des Cucurbitacees cultivees au Museum en 1859 Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, ser. 4" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" pagination="79 - 164" refId="B10" refString="Naudin, CV, 1859. . Revue des Cucurbitacees cultivees au Museum en 1859 Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, ser. 4 12: 79 - 164" volume="12" year="1859">Naudin (1859)</bibRefCitation>
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. It is surprising that Naudin failed to accept
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Mueller’s">Mueller's</normalizedToken>
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Australian
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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as a good species, since C.B. Clarke (1832-1906), who knew the Indian cucurbits well, made a note on one of the three Kew specimen, saying 'not near [
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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]
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">graveolens</emphasis>
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which has the males [male flowers] on very short subfasciculate pedicels.' This is indeed one of the differences between the Indian and the Australian species, the latter having the male flowers mostly in elongate racemes. Detailed measurements of living Indian
|
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="graveolens">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa graveolens</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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plants, black and white photos, and observations on their chromosome numbers are contained in (
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<bibRefCitation author="Dutt, B" journalOrPublisher="Genetica" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" pagination="7 - 18" publicationUrl="doi: 10.1007/BF01787335" refId="B3" refString="Dutt, B, Roy, RP, 1969. Cytogenetical studies in the interspecific hybrid of Luffa cylindrica L. and L. graveolens Roxb. Genetica 40: 7 - 18, doi: 10.1007/BF01787335" title="Cytogenetical studies in the interspecific hybrid of Luffa cylindrica L. and L. graveolens Roxb." url="doi: 10.1007/BF01787335" volume="40" year="1969">Dutt and Roy (1969</bibRefCitation>
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,
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||
<bibRefCitation author="Dutt, B" journalOrPublisher="Genetica" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" pagination="139 - 156" publicationUrl="doi: 10.1007/BF00154845" refId="B4" refString="Dutt, B, Roy, RP, 1971. Cytogenetic investigations in Cucurbitaceae I. Interspecific hybridization in Luffa. Genetica 42: 139 - 156, doi: 10.1007/BF00154845" title="Cytogenetic investigations in Cucurbitaceae I. Interspecific hybridization in Luffa." url="doi: 10.1007/BF00154845" volume="42" year="1971">1971</bibRefCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="27">
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No material of
|
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="graveolens">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa graveolens</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
from India is held in the following major herbaria: CGE, E, GH, L, MO, NY, US. This lack of material in western herbaria probably contributed to the Indian and Australian species having been confused for so long. The confusion also affected a recent treatment of
|
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<taxonomicName genus="Cucurbitaceae" lsidName="" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" rank="genus">Cucurbitaceae</taxonomicName>
|
||
in the
|
||
<taxonomicName genus="Flora" lsidName="" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Malesiana">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Flora Malesiana</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
series (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="De Wilde, WJJO" journalOrPublisher="Flora Malesiana" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" pagination="1 - 342" refId="B2" refString="De Wilde, WJJO, Duyfjes, BEE, 2010. Cucurbitaceae. Flora Malesiana 19: 1 - 342" title="Cucurbitaceae." volume="19" year="2010">De Wilde and Duyfjes 2010</bibRefCitation>
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||
), which states that
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="aegyptiaca">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa aegyptiaca</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
forma
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">sylvestris</emphasis>
|
||
(Miq.) W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes is common in Australia (and elsewhere) and comprises "all wild-growing and naturalized small-fruited feral forms" of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. Several Australian specimens of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="F. Muell. ex I. Telford" authorityYear="2011" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="saccata">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa saccata</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, such as
|
||
<taxonomicName genus="Sands" lsidName="" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Sands</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
4499 (
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Typical herbarium specimens of Luffa saccata: Sands 4499 (L)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/9924" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
|
||
), thus are annotated as
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="aegyptiaca">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa aegyptiaca</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
forma
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">sylvestris</emphasis>
|
||
. The
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
specialist C.B. Heiser, on the other hand, cultivated both Australian species,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="aegyptiaca">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa aegyptiaca</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="F. Muell. ex I. Telford" authorityYear="2011" class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="saccata">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa saccata</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(under the name
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Cucurbitaceae" genus="Luffa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Cucurbitales" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="graveolens">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="27">Luffa graveolens</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
), and distinguished them without hesitation (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Heiser, CB" journalOrPublisher="Biotropica" pageId="6" pageNumber="27" pagination="185 - 191" publicationUrl="doi: 10.2307/2388233" refId="B6" refString="Heiser, CB, Schilling, EE, 1988. Phylogeny and distribution of Luffa (Cucurbitaceae). Biotropica 20: 185 - 191, doi: 10.2307/2388233" title="Phylogeny and distribution of Luffa (Cucurbitaceae)." url="doi: 10.2307/2388233" volume="20" year="1988">Heiser and Schilling 1988</bibRefCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |