Anisophyllea globosa Madani (1993: 53)

Chen, Xin, He, Hai & Zhang, Li-Bing, 2015, A monograph of the Anisophylleaceae (Cucurbitales) with description of 18 new species of Anisophyllea, Phytotaxa 229 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

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Anisophyllea globosa Madani (1993: 53)
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27. Anisophyllea globosa Madani (1993: 53) View in CoL ( Figure 52 View FIGURE 52 )

Type:— MALAYSIA. Sabah: Kudat, Bengkoka Peninsula , ca. 1.3 km northeast of Kampong Bawing , 150 m, 13 September 1972, G. Shea & F. Minjulu 76131 (holotype SAN!, isotypes K-H2008/00218110!, L-0520738!) .

Trees to 10 m tall, 9 cm in diam.; outer bark smooth, grayish, inner bark red-brown, sapwood white; young branches pannose with hairs to 0.2 mm long, glabrescent when mature, with protuberantly glandular lenticels; buds densely pannose. Leaves dimorphic, internodes between similar types of leaves 0.8–2.0 cm long, between two adjacent different types of leaves 1–8 mm long; small leaves caducous, only leaving minute scars on young twigs; large leaves petiolate, petiole 3–4 mm long, 0.6–0.8 mm in diam., glabrous and sparsely glandular; leaf blade elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, 5–7 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, base acute, apex acute or acuminate, margins often slightly revolute, thickly chartaceous, glabrous, sparsely and conspicuously glandular on both surfaces with tiny protruding dot-glands protuberant and transparent, 0.12–0.38 in diam., and 0.6–2.4 mm apart; main longitudinal veins 5–7, springing from blade base, or with two inner lateral veins from midrib at ca. 1 cm above blade base,

MONOGRAPH OF ANISOPHYLLEACEAE

Phytotaxa 229 (1) © 2015 Magnolia Press • 75 outermost 2 veins very fine and almost merged with blade margins, slightly impressed or flat adaxially, prominent abaxially, other lateral veins as bold as midrib; transverse veins numerous, subparallell or irregular, at angles of 45–60° with midrib; veinlets reticulate. Inflorescence and flowers unknown. Fruit a drupe, globose, to 5.5 cm in diam., surface irregularly roughed when dried, greenish grey. Seed 1, to 1 cm in diam.

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Flowering and fruiting: —Flowering time unknown; fruiting in September.

Habitat and distribution: — In lowland open secondary forests; ca. 150 m. Malaysia (Sabah) ( Figure 53 View FIGURE 53 ) .

Taxonomic notes: —Though Anisophyllea globosa was suggested to be closely related with A. beccariana when it was published ( Madani 1993), it has glandular leaves, obvious parallel main veins, and globoid fruits that ensure its discrepancy from A. beccariana . Its difference from another similar species, A. impressinervia , included in our key was based on observation of limited material. Its inflorescence and flowers are unknown.

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Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève

F

Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department

SAN

Forest Research Centre

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