Hypselodelphys triangularis Jongkind, 2008

Jongkind, Carel C. H., 2008, Two new species of Hypselodelphys (Marantaceae) from West Africa, Adansonia (3) 30 (1), pp. 57-62 : 58-59

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4601941

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BA488451-7B26-FFF4-FD05-FD30FEC5FC69

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Hypselodelphys triangularis Jongkind
status

sp. nov.

Hypselodelphys triangularis Jongkind View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Fig. 2 View FIG )

A Hypselodelphyde violacea (Ridl.) Milne-Redh. differt internodiis inflorescentiae aliquantum brevioribus et costa folii subtus glabra praeter basim.

TYPUS. — Côte d’Ivoire. 24 km W of Sassandra , 31.X.1968, Breteler 5876 (holo-, WAG; iso-, B, BR, C, MO, P, US).

PARATYPES. — Liberia. Tapeta , Blepie road, few miles SW of town , 12.I.1967, Bos 2713 (WAG). — Road Tappita- Tchien, 21.I.1964, van Harten 254 (WAG).

Côte d’Ivoire. 8 km SSW of Kpata-Aidou , 9. V .1975, Beentje 118 ( WAG). — Soubré, 21. VI .1907, Chevalier 19144 ( P). — Along the road from Sassandra to Monogaga, 12.IV.1973, de Koning 1448 ( K, WAG). — Road from Sassandra to Monogaga, 12.IV.1973, de Koning 1466 ( WAG). — Near Louga, behind Fuyt plantation, 12.XI.1973, de Koning 2700 ( K, MO, WAG). — C . 34 km N of Sassandra , c . 2 km W of Kokolo-Pozo , 19. VI .1963, W . de Wilde 292 ( BR, K, P, WAG). — FC Niégre , E of Keitadougou , 23.III.2000, Jongkind, Hawthorne & Assi- Yapo 4671 ( WAG) . — 5 km N of Sassandra , 19.XII.1958, Leeuwenberg 2258 ( WAG). — Taï NP , 7 km E of Research Station , 15.XI.1986, van der Maesen 5275 ( BR, G, K, MO, P, WAG) .

Ghana. Asafo road junction, 26. V .1954, Morton A 249 ( GC, K) .

Togo. Danyi Plateau , between Dzogbégan and Bago, 15.II.1978, Ern 3153 ( K) .

DESCRIPTION

Small liana scrambling up to 5 m high in vegetation. Leaves slightly asymmetric; blade very variable in size, 3.5-12.5 × 2-4 cm, with some hairs at the base below otherwise glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, simple or branched at base, up to 17 cm long, with internodes c. 5 mm long with the surface still easily visible through the indumentum of half-erect short hairs; bracts c. 2 cm long. Flower white with pink or violet, equal to the flowers of the other species in the genus. Fruit yellow and green, strongly acute three-lobed, flattened, muricate, 4 cm wide, with 3 large seeds.

HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION

Regrowth in wet evergreen forest from Liberia to Togo ( Fig. 3 View FIG ).

W

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

WAG

Wageningen University

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

P

Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

MO

Missouri Botanical Garden

C

University of Copenhagen

N

Nanjing University

BR

Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection

E

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

G

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève

GC

Goucher College

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