Drepananthus vitiensis (A.C.Sm.) Survesw. & R.M.K.Saunders

Turner, Ian M. & Utteridge, Timothy M. A., 2017, Annonaceae in the Western Pacific: geographic patterns and four new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 339, pp. 1-44 : 16-17

Drepananthus vitiensis (A.C.Sm.) Survesw. & R.M.K.Saunders

Taxon 59 (6): 1731 ( Surveswaran et al. 2010). – Cyathocalyx vitiensis A.C.Sm. , Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 141: 64, fig. 31 ( Smith 1936). – Type: Fiji, Vanua Levu, Mbau Province, in the lower Wainunu River Valley, 7 May 1934, A. C. Smith 1720 (holo-: BISH1000665; iso-: GH, K, NY, P, S, UC, US, WIS).

Cyathocalyx insularis A.C.Sm. , Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 31: 161 ( Smith 1950). – Type: Fiji, Viti Levu, Mba Province, in hills between Nggaliwana and Tumbeindreketi Creeks, east of the sawmill at Navai, 2 Sep. 1947, A. C. Smith 5868 (holo-: A00039266, A00039267; iso-: BISH1000663, BRI, K, L, NY, P, S, US).

Cyathocalyx stenopetalus A.C.Sm. , Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 31: 162 ( Smith 1950). – Type: Fiji, Viti Levu, in the valley of Nggaliwana Creek, north of the sawmill at Navai, 21 Jul. 1947, A. C. Smith 5342 (holo-: A00039268; iso-: BISH, BRI, K, L, NY, P, S, US).

Cyathocalyx suaveolens A.C.Sm. , Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 31: 163 ( Smith 1950). – Type: Fiji, Vanua Levu, Mathuata Province, at the southern base of the Mathuata Range, north of Natua, 1 Dec. 1947, A. C. Smith 6778 (holo-: A00039269; iso-: BRI, K, L, NY, P, S, US).

Regional distribution

Fiji; Santa Cruz islands, Vanikoro (BSIP 7622, BSIP 5260, BSIP 3642).

Notes

Specimens of Drepananthus collected from Vanikoro Island in the Santa Cruz group have far broader petals than the material from the Melanesian part of the Solomon Islands. Surveswaran et al. (2010) reduced the four species of Cyathocalyx described by Smith from Fiji to Drepananthus vitiensis . The limited amount of material available from Vanikoro seems to fall within the variability exhibited by the Fijian taxon, so we refer the collections to that species.