Syzygium ignambiense, Snow, Neil, Byng, James W., Munzinger, Jérôme, Callmander, Martin W. & Dawson, John W., 2017

Snow, Neil, Byng, James W., Munzinger, Jérôme, Callmander, Martin W. & Dawson, John W., 2017, New Caledonian Piliocalyx transferred to Syzygium (Myrtaceae) with an updated conspectus of the species, Candollea 72 (2), pp. 239-248 : 244

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15553/c2017v722a1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6080519

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/877687BA-FF8A-DD01-A865-E772660DFB57

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Syzygium ignambiense
status

comb. nov.

Syzygium ignambiense View in CoL (Baker f.) N. Snow & Byng, comb. nov. ( Fig. 1D View Fig ).

Ξ Eugenia ignambiensis Baker View in CoL f. in J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 45: 315. 1921.

Typus: NEW CALEDONIA. Prov. Nord: Ignambi, 30.VII. 1914, Compton 1512 (holo-: BM [ BM001119178 ]!) .

Shrubs or trees, 4- 18 m. Bark unknown. Branchlets terete or sometimes weakly quadrangular, emerging maroon but becoming greenish-yellow. Petioles 3-5 mm. Leaf blades 3-6.5 × 1.5-2.5 cm, narrowly elliptic, base cuneate, margin slightly revolute, apex obtuse to acute, pale yellowish on emergence. Flower in bud obpyriform, cream-colored. Inflorescences ramiflorous, terminal or axillary, in fasciculate clusters, to c. 1.5 cm. Hypanthium 1.5-2 × 1.8-2.5 mm, obpyriform, cream-colored, calyptrate, slightly umbonate or not. Fruits 0.7-1.3 × 0.7-1.5 cm, globular, often sessile to sub-sessile, greenish-white to reddish.

Notes. ‒ This species remains incompletely characterized. However, specimens collected since the original description generally agree with the protologue.

Additional specimens examined. ‒ NEW CALEDONIA. Prov. Nord: Mandjélia , above Pouébo , 13.XI.1981, McPherson 4373 ( NOU [ NOU013808 About NOU ], P [ P04807654 ]) ; N end of Panié Massif , 26.XI.1983, McPherson 6059 ( MO, NOU [ NOU013807 About NOU ]) ; La Guen , Parcelle 2 , 19.XI.2010, Munzinger et al. 6359 ( NOU [ NOU063540 About NOU ], P [ P00805949 ]) . Prov. Sud: Table Unio , N of Col d’Amieu , 10.V.1984, McPherson 6550 ( MO-3216417 , NOU [ NOU013809 About NOU ], P [ P05265251 ], WELTU-14484 ) .

NOU

NOU

BM

Bristol Museum

NOU

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

P

Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants

MO

Missouri Botanical Garden

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Myrtales

Family

Myrtaceae

Genus

Syzygium

Loc

Syzygium ignambiense

Snow, Neil, Byng, James W., Munzinger, Jérôme, Callmander, Martin W. & Dawson, John W. 2017
2017
Loc

Eugenia ignambiensis

Baker 1921: 315
1921
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