Notes on new world Salacioideae (Celastraceae including Hippocrateaceae): 1. New species of Salacia
Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen Series C Biological and Medical Sciences
1984
Journal Article
87
1
81-90
Parque Nacional del Manu plants trees lianas Celastraceae Hippocrateaceae new species Salacia taxonomy systematics Madre de Dios Bibliography
Three new species of Salacia are described. S. bullata sp. nov., a liana, characterized by bullate leaves, was collected in Brazil, Territorio Amapa. It is related to S. amplectens. A.C. Smith's key (1940) should be amended to include a new group AMPLECTENTES. This group, containing S. bullata and S. amplectens would be near Arboreae. S. alwynii, sp. nov., a vining species comes from Peru, Maynas and is characterized by very large leaves and large cauliflorous flowers. It belongs to the species group Ellipticae sensu Smith. It was also collected in Venezuela. S. paradoxa sp. nov. is a liana collected in Brazil along the Manaus-Caracarai road. Its long leaves are narrowly elliptic, its flowers are extremely small. In leaf characters it is strikingly similar to S. solimoesensis of Smith's species group Ellipticae, the shape of the disk suggests the species group Crassifoliae. Specimens with fruits, collected in western Brazil may belong either to S. paradoxa or to S. solimoesensis.