Drypetes bathiei Capuron & Leandri, 1958

McPHERSON, Gordon, 2000, Drypetes (Euphorbiaceae) in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, Adansonia (3) 22 (2), pp. 205-209 : 207

Drypetes bathiei Capuron & Leandri

Flore de Madagascar et des Comores 111: 156

(1958), nom. nov. — Brexiopsis aquifolia H. Perrier ,

Notul. Syst. (Paris) 10: 193 (1942), non Drypetes

aquifolium (Scott-Elliot) Pax & K. Hoffm. — Type:

Perrier de la Bâthie 17804 (holo-, P).

Drypetes capuronii var. grandiflora Leandri, Mém. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Sér. B, Biol. Vég. 8: 246 (1957). This name was not validly published since no Latin description or type was provided either at its first mention or later in the Flore ( LEANDRI 1958: 156). Most of the specimens assigned to it in the latter publication represent Drypetes bathiei .

DISTRIBUTION. — Eastern, northern and northwestern forests, from Fort Dauphin to Montagne d’Ambre, and from the Montagnes des Français to Majunga.

Resembling D. capuronii in having leaves sometimes up to 18 × 7 cm, 3 sepals and 4-5 carpels, but distinguished by its longer stipules (> 1 mm), often dentate leaf margins, fewer stamens (8-12 vs. 12-16), and lobed fruit.