Neocussonia fosbergiana (Bernardi) Lowry, G.M. Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin, 2017

Lowry Ii, Porter P., Plunkett, Gregory M., Gostel, Morgan R. & Frodin, David G., 2017, A synopsis of the Afro-Malagasy species previously included in Schefflera (Araliaceae): resurrection of the genera Astropanax and Neocussonia, Candollea 72 (2), pp. 265-282 : 276-277

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15553/c2017v722a4
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03838D52-FFB1-3E2A-BA4C-FBB5FD3AF86F
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scientific name	Neocussonia fosbergiana (Bernardi) Lowry, G.M. Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin
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B5. Neocussonia fosbergiana (Bernardi) Lowry, G.M. Plunkett, Gostel & Frodin View in CoL , comb. nov.

÷ Cussonia fosbergiana Bernardi View in CoL in Ber. Schweiz. Bot. Ges. 76: 363. 1966. ÷ Schefflera fosbergiana (Bernardi) Bernardi View in CoL in Candollea 24: 117. 1969.

Typus: MADAGASCAR. Prov . Antsiranana: vallée de la Lokoho, Mt. Beondroka au N de Maroambihy, 100- 1450 m, 17-22.III.1949, bud, fl. & y. fr, Humbert View in CoL 23439 (holo-: P [ P00442788 ]!; iso-: G [ G00015607 ]!, P [ P00442787 , P00498704 ]!) .

Habitat and distribution. – Neocussonia fosbergiana is known only from Marojejy National Park and the Betsomanga massif c. 25 km to the NNE ( MADAGASCAR CATALOGUE, 2017), where it grows in humid forest and ericoid thickets between 1,200 and 1,700 m elevation.

Notes. – The holotype of Cussonia fosbergiana at P bears a type label clearly affixed by Bernardi in Geneva, rendering the annotation made by Frodin in 2001 designating this specimen as a lectotype superfluous, and in any case this choice was never published .

[A: Lowry 7157; B: Lowry 7100; C: Callmander 384; D: Ravelonarivo 3340; E: Lowry 6705; F: Plunkett 2328; G. Lowry 4504]

[Photos: A-B, E-G: P. Lowry; C: M. Callmander; D: D. Ravelonarivo]