Lepidocupania glomeriflora (Radlk.) Buerki, Callm., Munzinger & Lowry, 2020

Buerki, Sven, Munzinger, Jérôme, Lowry Ii, Porter P. & Callmander, Martin W., 2020, Two new genera of Sapindaceae (Cupanieae) from the southern Pacific: Lepidocupania and Neoarytera, Candollea 75 (2), pp. 269-284 : 276

Lepidocupania glomeriflora (Radlk.) Buerki, Callm., Munzinger & Lowry , comb. nov. ( Fig. 3A).

 Cupaniopsis glomeriflora Radlk. in Sitzungsber. Math.- Phys. CI. Konigl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Munich 9: 589. 1879.

Lectotypus (first step designated by ADEMA, 1991: 116; second step designated here): NEW CALEDONIA. Prov. Sud: Bourail, dans les bois, III.1869, Balansa 1447 ( P [ P00639131 ]!; isolecto-: P [ P00639133 , P00639134 ]!) .

Distribution and ecology. – Lepidocupania glomeriflora is endemic to New Caledonia, where it occurs on Grande Terre, the Ile des Pins, and the three larger Loyalty Islands ( ADEMA, 1991; BUTAUD, 2014). It is found in maquis vegetation, dry to mesic forests, or forest remnants, along the coast, on hills or mountainsides, often along rivers, and occurs on calcareous substrates, serpentinite and schist, but appears not to favor peridotitic substrates and is completely absent from Grande Terre’s large southern ultramafic massif. Lepidocupania glomeriflora has been recorded from 10 to 500 m.

Notes. – Nine syntype collections were cited in the protologue of Cupaniopsis glomeriflora: Balansa 153 p. p., 1447, Baudouin 354 p.p., “ Culta in hort. Paris ”, Deplanche 83, Labillardière 169, Pancher 782, Vieillard 228, and 233. ADEMA (1991: 116) designated Balansa 1447 as the lectotype. Original material at P is, however, mounted on three sheets, necessitating the second step lectotypification designated here, for which we have selected the most complete and best-preserved sheet [ P00639131 ] .