A new species of Combretum sect. Ciliatipetala (Combretaceae) from South Africa

dc.contributor.authorBoon, R.G.C.
dc.contributor.authorJordaan, Marie
dc.contributor.authorVan Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam)
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-03T10:38:16Z
dc.date.available2021-08-03T10:38:16Z
dc.date.issued2020-02
dc.description.abstractCombretum eugeneanum, a new species from northeastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and confined to the Maputaland Centre of Plant Endemism, is described, illustrated, mapped, and compared with southern African members of the genus with which it may be confused. In a narrowly defined genus Combretum, the new species belongs to Combretum sect. Ciliatipetala. In herbaria, it has usually been confused with close relatives C. apiculatum and C. edwardsii, as well as several other more distantly related members of the genus, in particular C. woodii. The new species is also closely related to the recently described C. stylesii. It is readily distinguished as an essentially glabrous woody climber or scrambling shrub needing other vegetation for support, leaf apices rarely apiculate, tertiary veins raised on the adaxial leaf surface, inflorescences few-flowered and subcapitate, upper hypanthium cupuliform, flowers with orange-red centres (discs) and peltate scales comprised of essentially eight radial cells, most of which are subdivided by at least one tangential wall, the resulting outer and inner cell(s) often with at least one additional radial wall. Combretum eugeneanum grows in Sand Forest and associated sandy bushveld, and its range and habitat does not overlap with that of C. edwardsii or C. stylesii, both of which are also very often lianas.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPlant Production and Soil Scienceen_ZA
dc.description.librarianpm2021en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal and University of Pretoria.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://www.mapress.com/j/pten_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBoon, R.G.C., Jordaan, M. & Van Wyk, A.E. 2020, 'A new species of Combretum sect. Ciliatipetala (Combretaceae) from South Africa', Phytotaxa, vol. 434, no. 1, pp. 1-12.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1179-3155 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1179-3163 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.sajb.2010.06.003.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/81101
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherMagnolia Pressen_ZA
dc.rights© 2020 Magnolia Press. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.en_ZA
dc.subjectAnatomyen_ZA
dc.subjectCombretoideaeen_ZA
dc.subjectCombretum eugeneanumen_ZA
dc.subjectEndemismen_ZA
dc.subjectMaputaland Centre of Endemismen_ZA
dc.subjectPeltate scalesen_ZA
dc.subjectScalesen_ZA
dc.subjectTaxonomyen_ZA
dc.titleA new species of Combretum sect. Ciliatipetala (Combretaceae) from South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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