Coprosma reticulata (Wagner, Warren L. & Lorence, David H. 2011)
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Ordo: Gentianales
Familia: Rubiaceae
Genus: Coprosma
Name
Coprosma reticulata Florence (Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, B, Adansonia, Ser. 4, 8: 6. 1986). – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Coprosma reticulata Wagner, Warren L., 2011, PhytoKeys 4: 109-109.
Description
Description. Shrubs or small trees 3-10 m tall, up to 12 cm diam., stems glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, decussate, the blades 8.5-19.7 x 3-13 cm, oblanceolate, oblong or elliptic-oblanceolate, glabrous, pinnately veined with 8-13 pairs of secondary veins, higher level venation conspicuously reticulate, raphides conspicuously visible on lower surface along the major veins, which are dark-colored, domatia small, slightly elongated, located along midrib near juncture with secondary veins, apex acuminate, base attenuate; petioles 0.3-1.3 cm long, narrowly winged; stipules ca. 3-5 mm long, connate 1/2-4/5 of length, glabrous externally, strigose internally, margins ciliate and dentate with conspicuous colleters, apex obtuse to a conspicuous appendage. Inflorescences axillary, simple or occasionally trichotomously branched with 7 flowers, rarely more, each branch with 1-3 nodes the uppermost with a 3-flowered cymule, the others usually with only 1-2 flowers developing on each, these 4-6-merous, peduncles finely, sparsely strigulose. Flowers: male flowers with calyx tube 0.5-1.5 mm long, the lobes 0.3-0.9 mm long, the corolla 6.9-8 mm long, the tube 3.5-4.2 mm long, the lobes 3.4-4 mm long, the stamens with filaments 10-13 mm long, the anthers ca. 5 mm long; female flowers with calyx tube 0.4-0.8 mm long, the lobes 0.3-0.6 mm long, corolla narrowly funnelform, the tube 1.5-2 mm long, the lobes 2.2-2.5 mm long, the styles 8-10 mm long. Fruit 7-8 x 3.5-4 mm, obovoid to ellipsoid, ripening orange, apex with persistent calyx teeth. Pyrenes ovoid-ellipsoid, compressed, 6 x 3 mm, rugulose, dorsally weakly 1-ribbed.
Distribution
Distribution. Known only from the Toovii area of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, at elevations from 800 to 1100 m.
Etymology
Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the distinctive reticulate network of tertiary veins.
Taxon Treatment
- Wagner, Warren L.; Lorence, David H.; 2011: Revision of Coprosma (Rubiaceae, tribe Anthospermeae) in the Marquesas Islands, PhytoKeys 4: 109-109. doi
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