Gossia colnettiana (Guillaumin) N. Snow

Snow, Neil, 2020, A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae), Adansonia 42 (7), pp. 131-177 : 151-152

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3883285

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13-FFC7-F51E-1CEC-3CF3FDC941AF

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Tatiana

scientific name

Gossia colnettiana (Guillaumin) N. Snow
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Gossia colnettiana (Guillaumin) N. Snow ( Figs 6 View FIG ; 12A-D View FIG )

Austrobaileya 8: 180 (2010). — Eugenia colnettiana Guillaumin, Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, sér. B, Bot. 8: 242 (1962). — Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov ., Mt Colnett , 1370 m, 13.IX.1951, Hürlimann 1973 (holo-, P [ P00602541 ]; iso: Z [Z-000050851]).

ETYMOLOGY. — Based on the type locality.

DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Mt Colnett and Mt Panié ( Fig. 6 View FIG ); forests and forested slopes, presumably over metamorphics, 1000-1500 m. Flowering September through November; fruiting confirmed for early May, but likely extending into mid June or longer.

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov. Mt. Colnett, 1000 m, 27.X.2003, McPherson 18973 et al. (MO); Mt. Colnett , forested eastern slopes, 1000 m, 29.X.2003, McPherson 19021 (MO) ; ibid. loco, 29.X.2003, MacKee 19062 (MO) ; ibid. loco, 1250-1500 m, 31.X.2003, McPherson 19108 ( BISH, KSP [ KSP004707 ], MO, NOU [ NOU004355 ]) ; Mont Panié , 20°35’09.96”S, 164°46’14.99”E, 1300 m, 5. V.2007, Munzinger 4337 et al. ( NOU [ NOU 21487], P[P06668691]) GoogleMaps .

REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P06668691.

DESCRIPTION

Shrubs or trees

1- 5 m.

Branchlets

Terete, surface smooth; internodes> 5 mm.

Leaves

Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 2-2.8 mm, terete; blades 2.0- 6.5 × 1.2-3.5 cm, elliptic, base rounded, surface flat, margin flat to somewhat revolute, apex obtuse to slightly acute, midnerve above sulcate, secondary veins above flush, oil glands of lower surface common, sometimes faint.

Inflorescence

(2.0-) 3.5-7.5 cm, of monads, simple cymes, or few-flowered racemes, terminal or axillary along upper nodes; pedicels 5-30 mm; extrafloral bracts leafy if present.

Bracteoles

c. 3.5 mm, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, glabrescent to sparsely sericeous.

Hypanthium

Campanulate, 4-5 × 4.5-5 mm, sometimes slightly ribbed, more or less sericeous; ovary apex hairy.

Calyx

Lobes 5, 3.5-5 mm, broadly ovate, sparsely ciliate on margins, glabrous above, glabrous to sparsely sericeous below, greenish-white (in vivo).

Petals 8-13 × 6-8 mm, glabrous above and below,minutely ciliate apically.

Filaments 8-14 mm; anther sacs 0.6-0.8 mm.

Style

11-16 mm, sparsely hairy at base.

Fruit

Not seen but said to be greenish when young (e.g., Munzinger 4337).

REMARKS

The species closely resembles G. kuakuensis , but the latter has a glabrous hypanthium and occurs from 100-600 m in areas farther west or south, whereas G. colnettiana has a sericeous hypanthium and occurs at 1000 m or above.

BISH

Bishop Museum, Botany Division

KSP

Pittsburg State University

NOU

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Myrtales

Family

Myrtaceae

Genus

Gossia

Loc

Gossia colnettiana (Guillaumin) N. Snow

Snow, Neil 2020
2020
Loc

Gossia colnettiana (Guillaumin)

Snow 2010: 180
2010
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