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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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R.D.Stone
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M. dolichophyllo Naudin
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TYPUS. —
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near
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(
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[Mahavelona],
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Evergreen shrub or small tree up to
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high; branchlets virgate, leafy toward the apex, up to
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in diameter; young branchlets strongly 4-winged (wings greater than
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wide), the older rapidly excoriating and becoming terete, thickened at the nodes; internodes
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long. Leaves subcoriaceous, sessile, yellowish green on the upper surface (when dry), bright to pale green or violaceous on the lower, finely rugose on both surfaces; blades broadly lanceolate,
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long,
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wide, rounded and narrowly cordate at base, attenuate and acute at apex; only the mid-nerve clearly visible, canaliculate on the upper surface, prominent on the lower, very wide at the base (up to
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), becoming progressively narrower toward the apex; transverse veins obscure on the upper surface, ± visible on the lower, perpendicular or slightly oblique relative to the mid-nerve, ± straight or occasionally forked; lateral veins situated
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from the narrowly revolute margin; young leaves strongly violaceous. Cymes contracted, ± sessile, 1-3-flowered, fascicled at the nodes below the current leaves; bracts broadly ovate, auriculate at base, ± cucullate,
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long, persistent; bracteoles similar but smaller. Flowers at anthesis not seen, in bud with hypantho-calyx obconic, the margin 4-lobed, the lobes broadly triangular and apiculate, the corolla acute. Fruits globose,
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in diameter, on pedicels
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long; calycinal crown
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long, spreading, the margin sinuate and 4-microdentate; epigynous chamber deep, lacking radial partitions.
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FIG. 3. —
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<emphasis box="[191,396,1657,1674]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="343">Memecylon pterocladum</emphasis>
R.D.Stone
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, habit;
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, inflorescence with flower buds;
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, fruit. A, D,
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; B,
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; C,
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. Scale bars: A, 5 cm; B, 2 cm; C, 1 mm; D, 5 mm.
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The type is a fruiting specimen that was previously cited but not described in detail (Jacques-Félix 1985b: 36). In addition there are two recent collections including one (
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) with flower buds but no fully developed flowers. The prominently winged young branchlets of
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<emphasis box="[483,647,1135,1161]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="344">M. pterocladum</emphasis>
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resemble those seen in
<taxonomicName authority="Jacq." authorityName="Jacq." box="[379,592,1167,1193]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Memecylon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="344" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="capuronii">
<emphasis box="[379,524,1167,1193]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="344">M. capuronii</emphasis>
Jacq.
</taxonomicName>
-Fél.,
<taxonomicName authority="H. Perrier" authorityName="H. Perrier" box="[115,390,1199,1225]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Memecylon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="344" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pterocarpum">
<emphasis box="[115,283,1199,1225]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="344">M. pterocarpum</emphasis>
H.Perrier
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName authority="Jacq." authorityName="Jacq." class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Memecylon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="344" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="fernandesiorum">
<emphasis box="[447,647,1199,1225]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="344">M. fernandesiorum</emphasis>
Jacq.
</taxonomicName>
-Fél. The new species is also somewhat similar to
<taxonomicName authority="H. Perrier" authorityName="H. Perrier" box="[140,366,1262,1288]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Memecylon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="344" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="subsessile">
<emphasis box="[140,262,1262,1288]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="344">M. subsessile</emphasis>
H.Perrier
</taxonomicName>
, which notably differs in its slender, terete branchlets; papyriferous, short-petioled leaves that are smaller and strongly acuminate at the apex; and axillary cymes.
</paragraph>
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A collection of
<taxonomicName box="[300,496,1389,1415]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Memecylon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="344" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="dolichophyllum">
<emphasis box="[300,496,1389,1415]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="344">M. dolichophyllum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="344">Capuron SF- 28114</emphasis>
, P) from the
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locality of
<taxonomicName authorityName="R. D. Stone" authorityYear="2006" box="[483,647,1420,1446]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Memecylon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="344" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pterocladum">
<emphasis box="[483,647,1420,1446]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="344">M. pterocladum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
suggests that the two species are at least partially sympatric. Their fruits are identical; they also resemble one another in having subcoriaceous leaves and cymes borne at the nodes below the current leaves. They are however quite different since
<taxonomicName box="[454,646,1579,1605]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Memecylon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="7" pageNumber="344" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="dolichophyllum">
<emphasis box="[454,646,1579,1605]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="344">M. dolichophyllum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has petiolate leaves that are merely rounded (not cordate) at the base and with transverse veins oblique; its fruiting pedicels are also
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long.
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