Abstract
Based on ongoing ecological research in mountain forests of Sulawesi, a new species, Elaeocarpus firdausii Brambach, Coode, Biagioni & Culmsee, sp. nov. is described and illustrated from mossy forests at > 2000 m and information provided on the species’ distribution, ecology and pollen morphology. Elaeocarpus firdausii is similar to Elaeocarpus luteolignum Coode but differs from the latter in having glabrous terminal buds, leaves with black gland dots, 4-merous, larger flowers, and more numerous stamens.
Highlights
Based on ongoing ecological research in mountain forests of Sulawesi, a new species, Elaeocarpus firdausii Brambach, Coode, Biagioni & Culmsee, sp. nov. is described and illustrated from mossy forests at > 2000 m and information provided on the species’ distribution, ecology and pollen morphology
Elaeocarpus is the largest genus of the Elaeocarpaceae, comprising approximately 350 species in the Old World tropics and subtropics, from Madagascar and Mauritius in the west, to Japan in the north, Australia and New Zealand in the south and Polynesia including Hawai’i in the east (Coode 2004, Baba 2013)
Our description is based solely on the material gathered during our (FB and HC) fieldwork in Central Sulawesi in 2011–2012, as no further matching specimens were found in herbaria
Summary
Elaeocarpus is the largest genus of the Elaeocarpaceae, comprising approximately 350 species in the Old World tropics and subtropics (excluding mainland Africa), from Madagascar and Mauritius in the west, to Japan in the north, Australia and New Zealand in the south and Polynesia including Hawai’i in the east (Coode 2004, Baba 2013). Academic editor: Ali Dönmez | Received 18 December 2015 | Accepted 16 February 2016 | Published 25 March 2016 Citation: Brambach F, Coode M, Biagioni S, Culmsee H (2016) Elaeocarpus firdausii (Elaeocarpaceae), a new species from tropical mountain forests of Sulawesi.
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