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<mods:title>Plukenetia kwangoensis sp. nov. (Euphorbiaceae, Acalyphoideae, Plukenetieae), a new species of Plukenetia L. sect. Hedraiostylus (Hassk.) Müll. Arg. from Democratic Republic of Congo</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName authority="L.J.Gillespie" authorityName="L. J. Gillespie" authorityYear="2023" box="[888,1287,1557,1584]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Plukenetia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="3" pageNumber="142" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="kwangoensis" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[888,1144,1558,1584]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="142">Plukenetia kwangoensis</emphasis>
L.J.Gillespie
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,
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(
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;
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;
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)
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<taxonomicName authority="Gillespie, 2023" authorityName="L. J. Gillespie" authorityYear="2023" box="[813,1032,1659,1683]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Plukenetia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="3" pageNumber="142" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="kwangoensis" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis box="[813,1032,1659,1683]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="142">Plukenetia kwangoensis</emphasis>
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belongs to sect.
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<emphasis box="[1270,1394,1659,1683]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="142">Hedraiostylus</emphasis>
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based on the character combination of short styles (&lt;
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long), small dry capsules (≤
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in diam.), small lenticular seeds, and foveolate pollen. It is distinguished from all other species in the section by its very short petioles (
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vs
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long) and leaf blades with narrowly acute bases that are often attenuate along the petiole (vs obtuse to cordate, hastate, or sagittate), pinnate venation (vs palmate or 3-nerved venation except rarely appearing pinnate in
<taxonomicName authority="Sond." authorityName="Sond." box="[814,981,1871,1895]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Euphorbiaceae" genus="Plukenetia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Malpighiales" pageId="3" pageNumber="142" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="africana">
<emphasis box="[814,914,1871,1895]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="142">P. africana</emphasis>
Sond.
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), and numerous secondary veins (10-16 vs 2-8). Additionally, it differs from
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<emphasis box="[1100,1112,1898,1921]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="142">P</emphasis>
.
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and
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<emphasis box="[1260,1396,1897,1921]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="142">P. procumbens</emphasis>
Prain
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by its shorter pistillate flower pedicels (
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vs ≥
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), from
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by its linear-oblong leaf blades (L/W = 6-10 vs elliptic or ovate and L/W &lt;2), and from
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<emphasis box="[1223,1322,1977,2001]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="142">P. africana</emphasis>
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by its lack of stipels at the petiole apex.
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FIG. 1. —
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<emphasis box="[213,411,1986,2003]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="143">Plukenetia kwangoensis</emphasis>
L.J.Gillespie
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,
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,
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(MO):
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, habit;
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, pistillate flower;
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, immature fruit;
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, mature fruit;
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, seed. Illustration by Jessica Cosham. Scale bars: A, 1 cm; B, C, E, 1 mm; D, 5 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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FIG. 2. —
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<emphasis box="[374,572,2008,2025]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="144">Plukenetia kwangoensis</emphasis>
L.J.Gillespie
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,
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, holotype specimen:
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(BR0000015669865).
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FIG. 3. —
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<emphasis box="[214,412,704,721]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="145">Plukenetia kwangoensis</emphasis>
L.J.Gillespie
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,
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,
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(BR0000015669865):
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, staminate flowers;
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, pistillate flower;
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immature fruit. Scale bars: A, B, 1 mm; C, 2 mm.
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<collectionCode box="[132,181,822,845]" pageId="6" pageNumber="145">TYPE</collectionCode>
</typeStatus>
. —
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<collectingCountry box="[220,556,822,847]" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo" pageId="6" pageNumber="145">Democratic Republic of the Congo</collectingCountry>
</emphasis>
. [Kwango Prov.].
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[
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], savane herbeuse (incinérée)
<collectorName box="[641,770,848,872]" pageId="6" pageNumber="145">de la Ngambi</collectorName>
,
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<collectingDate box="[131,246,875,899]" pageId="6" pageNumber="145" value="1944-08-04">4.VIII.1944</collectingDate>
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,
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<collectionCode box="[255,272,875,898]" country="Chile" name="Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile" pageId="6" pageNumber="145">R</collectionCode>
.
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.
<collectionCode box="[298,316,875,898]" country="USA" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15406" name="Harvard University - Arnold Arboretum" pageId="6" pageNumber="145" type="Herbarium">A</collectionCode>
.
</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[322,456,875,899]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="145">
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:701A8781FFCE5700AA6DF9B16E336D03:FD6C604CFFCB5700A857FCCC6BD36A8E" box="[322,403,875,898]" country="Democratic Republic of the Congo" name="Germain" pageId="6" pageNumber="145">Germain</location>
2617
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(holo-,
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[
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]!, iso-,
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!,
<collectionCode box="[242,260,901,925]" country="France" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15763" name="Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants" pageId="6" pageNumber="145" type="Herbarium">P</collectionCode>
!)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY. —
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<emphasis box="[457,676,949,973]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="145">Plukenetia kwangoensis</emphasis>
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is known from a single collection made in
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, between the Kwango and Lufimi [Lufuna on label] rivers in westernmost Kwango Province (see Notes below) (
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). The collection, with both flowers and fruit, was made in early August in herbaceous, seasonally burnt, open savanna.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="145" type="etymology">
<paragraph blockId="6.[130,776,822,1206]" pageId="6" pageNumber="145">
ETYMOLOGY. — The specific epithet refers to
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, the province and region where the species is found, and also to the
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and valley, which borders the savanna on the east.
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Monoecious perennial herbs,
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high; caudex elongate,
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diam., branched; stems erect to steeply ascending, older stems at base short, thick (
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diam.), woody, many-branched, leafy stems often purplish, especially basally and near leaf insertion, slender (
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diam.), pubescent.
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Alternate, simple; stipules linear-triangular to narrowly triangular,
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long; petiole
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long, pubescent; blade linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, widest near or below the middle, 4-7 ×
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, L/W = 6-10, chartaceous, abaxial surface glabrate with pubescent midrib and scattered hairs on secondary veins, adaxial surface pubescent with major veins densely pubescent, base narrowly acute and often attenuate along the petiole, margins revolute, serrulate, teeth glandular, apex narrowly acuminate to narrowly acute; venation pinnate, often faintly 3-nerved at base, secondary veins 10-16 on each side of midrib, semicraspedodromous, sometimes brochidodromous, tertiary veins weakly percurrent or reticulate; stipels absent; adaxial basilaminar glands 2 (-6), often purplish, circular or elliptic,
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in diam., on revolute margin, usually lateral- or sometimes abaxial-facing, basal pair
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from blade base, sometimes additional 1-2 (-4) glands/side along margins on proximal 1/5of blade; abaxial laminar glands absent.
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Bisexual, terminal (becoming leaf-opposed), narrow racemes,
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long, axes moderately pubescent; peduncle
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long; flowers 1/node, pistillate flower(s) 1 (2) at basal-most node(s), staminate flowers numerous above on axis
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long; bracts triangular-ovate to lanceolate,
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long, glabrate to sparsely pubescent.
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