Garcinia costata Hemsley ex King (1890: 161)

Nazre, M., Newman, M. F., Pennington, R. T. & Middleton, D. J., 2018, Taxonomic Revision of Garcinia Section Garcinia (Clusiaceae), Phytotaxa 373 (1), pp. 1-52 : 47

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https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.373.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13728436

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scientific name

Garcinia costata Hemsley ex King (1890: 161)
status

 

Garcinia costata Hemsley ex King (1890: 161) View in CoL .

Lectotype (designated here):— MALAYSIA, Peninsular Malaysia, Larut, Maxwell’s Hill, King’s Collector 5375 (K!; isotypes: KEP!, L!).

Distribution and Habitat:—Hill forest to 700 m in Peninsular Malaysia.

Taxonomic Notes:—Vegetatively, the large, cabbage-like, ribbed leaves are distinctly different from those in Garcinia sect. Garcinia . The inflorescences are thyrses rather than in clusters as in Garcinia sect. Garcinia , the male flower is similar to G. anomala in the mass of stamens surrounding the pistillode and the fruit has a lobed or segmented wall.

King, G. (1890) Materials for flora of Malay Peninsula. Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Part 2, Natural History, 60 (1): 113 - 206.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malpighiales

Family

Clusiaceae

Genus

Garcinia