Garcinia section Allanblackia (Oliv.) P.W. Sweeney, comb. &, 2024

Gaudeul, Myriam, Sweeney, Patrick & Munzinger, Jerome, 2024, An updated infrageneric classification of the pantropical species-rich genus Garcinia L. (Clusiaceae) and some insights into the systematics of New Caledonian species, based on molecular and morphological evidence, PhytoKeys 239, pp. 73-105 : 73

3. Garcinia section Allanblackia (Oliv.) P.W. Sweeney, comb. & stat. nov.

Basionym.

Allanblackia Oliv., Gen. Pl. [Benth. & Hook.f.] 1(3): 980 (1867), J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 10: 43 (1867).

Type.

Allanblackia floribunda Oliv., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 10: 43 (1867) [≡ Garcinia oleosperma P.W. Sweeney, nom. nov.; non Garcinia floribunda Miq., Stip. Surin. Sel. 39, non Garcinia floribunda Mast. ex Vesque, Monogr. Phan. [A.DC. & C.DC.] 8: 488 (1893)]

Distinguishing sectional characters.

Flowers five-merous. Staminate flowers with stamens united into five phalanges, anthers subsessile, two-thecous. Pollen 4-colporate ( Jones 1980). Ovaries incompletely five-locular containing multiple ovules per carpel/locule, placentation parietal. Afrotropics.

Note.

There are nine currently accepted species in the genus Allanblackia Oliv., all native to Africa ( Bamps 1969; Stevens 2007; POWO 2023). Here we create the Garcinia Allanblackia (Oliv.) P.W. Sweeney for these species when they are treated as Garcinia and below provide names for them in Garcinia .

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