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BLUMEA
30
21-29
(1984)
Berberidopsis
in
(Flacourtuaceae)
Australia
J.F. Veldkamp
The Netherlands
Rijksherbarium, Leiden,
Summary
Streptothamnus beckleri
Hook,
dopsis
the tribal
f.,
name
until
now
F.v.M.
a
(Flacourtiaceae)
monotypic
Berberidopsideae is
genus
from
Berberidopsis
was
Company.
based
thought
Hooker
and the
ceae
flowers and has
and
misplaced
A revision
to Berberi-
belongs
of both
genera
is
given
and
that
a
survey
Hooker f.
by
to
be
be
to
another
climber with
showy
very
with
the
as
only
spe-
Pearce for the Veitch
by
intermediate between the Berberida-
so
appeared
it
been cultivated in
fortunately
(1862)
collection from Chile
on a
the genus
Lardizabalaceae
families should be united. It is
let
described
originally
f.,
been
Chile.
validated.
General
cies B. corallina Hook,
has
a
that
proof
numerous
number of
these
coral-red
two
to scar-
because in its
places,
native country it has become very local.
Baillon
(1870)
pointed
great resemblance
the
out
which he also
regarded
spermeae DC.
(1824). Warburg (1893)
in the
ber
Flacourtiaceae,
of that
to
mum
a
Gilg (1925),
tance.
(1967)
for obscure
dopsideae.
to
family.
distinct
He
was
Streptothamnus
Queensland
The
in
use
latter
same
ic
for
a
and
Van
ever
since
Tieghem's proposal
on
first
changed
to
point
F.v.M., until
doubt does
not
affinity,
to
elevate
inval.)
nom.
the
tribe,
but
placed
has been considered
(1900)
F.v.M.,
Wales,
were
a note
name
the
at
has
Lamk.,
Erythro-
the tribe
be
to
least
a mem-
Erythrosper-
found
apparent
as
a
Erythrospermeae
resemblance of
no
accep-
bi-specific
published
description
that
name,
to
Berberi-
Berberidopsis
genus from southern
Australia.
more
or
who included it in
of which he
invalidate the
of the
considered
(1862),
Flacourtiaceae. His
under which he added
the
out
now
species
Von Mueller
genus, S. beckleri
Erythrospermum
distinct
the contrary, united the tribe with the Oncobeae. Hutchinson
reasons
the
to
a
with this
family ('Erythrospermacees',
genus and its
the
agreed
Berberidopsis
and northern New South
Berberidopsis by
F.v.M.,
as
Berberidacea, representing
was
perhaps
only
even
primarily
there
had
when it
less
was
fruiting
was
at
the
same
the Bixaceae,
not
based
another
time
a name
on
S. moorei
species
material. This
as
long
of the
taxonom-
mentioned in the index
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22
to
the
‘moorii’ is corrected
the
'
to
of
presence
moorei'
tribe
Jessup recently (1982)
5
caducous
much
petals,
connective and diffuse
a
inward
size
short,
connective.
These
ovary.
Heel
There
both papers
(1984;
5
is here
example
of
a
a
flower
partial
to
about
less
curved,
in fact
other
In
he
was
to
which in
be
logically
two
are
the
two
genera
Hutchinson
be
(1967),
called
but
invalid
would have been incorrect,
as
the
calyx
corolla)
seem
vate
and
tribes
as
a
the
tribe
the contrary
to
a
a
distinct
may postpone
is far
family
a
as
muriculate,
a
in
the
vegetative
the
reason
are
in Kew he
closely
had
only
small branchlet with
a
same
placed
in
a
This
it lacked
a
leaf and
a
Van
first
a
related
access to
single
fragmented
genus (Berberidopsis)
leaf
fruit of
species,
with each
solution.
name
was
and
palyno-
can
already proposed
diagnosis.
Erythrospermum,
In his
the type of the
still be used
(see
by
concept it
Erythro-
also Art. 63.3
Nomenclature, 1983).
two
Scolopieae
beyond
will
anatomically
separate tribe in the Flacourtia-
Latin
not
the
the
the
same
as
used
to
differentiation between
latter two's
scope
solve the
are
genera
(viz.
reconsideration between the
course
persis-
whorl with
single
Steenis, 1962).
morphologically,
he included
Oncobeae and
in order, which of
extra-
indicate that S. beckleri
Streptothamnus
affixed
of the differences between the
distinguish
in a
the
pollen morphology by
issue)
also Van
and
of the
best
of the International Code of Botanical
some
resembles
to
in-
gradual
lobed
large,
moorei, for which
spermeae, but when the latter genus is removed, it
Because
just
a
The latter genus thus becomes another
Berberidopsideae.
was
a
ones
an
genera.
probably
are
is
has
seem
number of collections of the latter
a
species
two
there is
hand,
with those observed in the
of but
satchel is
of their overall resemblance
which may
ceae,
comparing
inconspicuous
distinctly separate already
serpendituous
consisting
a
an
the other
on
muriculate anthers with
does S.
Berberidopsis
seems
torus, filaments
convex
stamens
seed anatomy and
lobes
persistent calyx
superficially
are
distribution (see
thinking they represented
view
state
dozen
a
together
than it
S. beckleri. Otherwise in Kew there
so
that
Berberidopsis.
of S. moorei
isotype
very poor
and
it
only
placentas
that
suggestion
although
or
more
to
amphi-transpacific
correct
slightly
be found elsewhere in this
to
transferred
Hutchinson's
seems
S.
just specific.
5
differentiation. There
characters
resembles B. corallina much
species
usually
of which the outer, smallest
tepals
and in the
(1984)
Baas
are
more
are
phytographical
anatomy by
than
and smooth with
in fruit and then
persistent
filaments and
stout
wide
for
correct
realise that the
not
but did
more
on a
straight
are
clear
a
of S. moorei. There
calyx
were
field, but in the dried
without
staminal disk which is
tent
spelling
included in the
publication
placentas. Streptothamnus beckleri,
different colour in the
in
crease
original
Von Mueller de-
which is
corolla,
flower with
stamens
many
which
of 15—17 caducous
acyclic perianth
have
disk,
no
species
two
cyclic
a
anthers,
than the
longer
the
original diagnoses,
made
moorei has
Streptothamnus
and
from
the
since.
ever
until Hutchinson's
was
differences between the
numerous
where
Fragmenta,
of the Flacourtiaceae.
Scolopieae
L.W.
distinct
genus
1984
1,
it has been written
as
calyx
a
moorei, and therefore the
No.
30,
volume of Von Mueller's
pertinent
scribed
VOL.
-
of the
problem
delimitation would
elepresent paper. To
of its affinities, but
on
J. F.
in
Veldkamp: Berberidopsis
Australia
23
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This
study
assistance
of
of
helpful
ology,
Dr.
and
on
Directors
the
comments
Sleumer,
H.
notes,
much
was
present
and
on
Drs.
by
who
material
is
Keepers
sent coloured
Melbourne, kindly
various
based
primarily
was
their
W.A.
Baas,
allowed
to
me
Dr. C.
appreciated.
of the
pictures
P.
L
K,
and
and
see
the
NSW;
Br.
J. Muller
Heel,
make
free
and
in Chile
in
present
varied
living
MEL. The
of Flacourti-
correspondence
interesting
gave
and sent
Borrell, University
the Dean
of his
use
Maticorena, Conception,
and the
hospitality
O.W.
Von Mueller-collections
van
of Berberidopsis corallina
occurrence
in
seen
gratefully acknowledged.
information
seeds.
REFERENCES
BAAS,
P.
1984.
Vegetative
H.
BAILLON,
G1LG,
E.
ed.
HEEL,
1870.
1925.
2,
21:
W.A. VAN.
J.D.
JESSUP,
L.W.
affinites des
Berberidopsis
1862.
Erythrospermum.
A.
trib. iv.
Engler
and fruits in
and
and
&
Adansonia
Streptothamnus (Fla-
9: 311-313.
Prod.
Erythrospermeae.
K.
Die
Prantl,
Flacourtiaceae.
corallina.
Berberidopsis
Flacourtiaceae.
Blumea
Streptothamnus.
1967. The genera of
1982.
Berberidopsis
1: 257. Paris.
natiirliche
Pflanzenfamilien,
Berlin.
1984. Flowers
of
J.
In:
Leipzig,
of
taxonomy
(this issue).
1824. Flacourtiaceae
394-396.
HUTCHINSON,
39-44
Flacourtiaceae.
morphology
HOOKER,
Sur les
A.P. DE.
CANDOLLE,
and
anatomy
30:
Blumea
courtiaceae).
In:
Curtis's
B.G.
et
Briggs
The seed
30: 31-37
Bot.
Mag.
2: 206-207.
flowering plants
In:
V.
al.,
Flora
Ill,
anatomy
and
pollen
(this issue).
18:
t.
5343.
London.
Oxford.
of Australia
8:
76-78, fig.
21 a-f. Canberra.
MUELLER,
F. VON.
1862.
Australiae
Fragmenta phytographiae
3:
27-28; (1863)
172
(index).
Melbourne.
STEENIS,
C.G.G.J. VAN.
TIEGHEM,
PH. VAN.
1962. The
1900.
Sur
le
nouvelle, les Erythrospermacees.
WARBURG,
III,
6a:
O.
1893. Flacourtiaceae.
15,
30.
In:
Morot,
In: A.
Flowers
acyclic,
Stamens
6—13,
Flowers
tepals
in
1
in
a
whorl,
Engler &
K.
spiral,
TO
Leaves
255-265.
type
d'une famille
125-129.
Prantl,
Die
natiirlichen
Pflanzenfamilien
THE SPECIES
13—17, deciduous. Disk present, persistent.
filaments
very
short,
connective broad,
muriculate,
2
cyclic. Sepals 5, quincuncial, persistent.
inconspicuous
numerous,
filaments
except for
a
Petals 5,
longer
terminal
nus)
2a.
14:
Bot.
11:
comme
( Berberidopsis )
Disk absent. Stamens
nective
J.
Blumea
considere
Leipzig.
anthers muriculate
b.
botany.
Erythrosperme,
GENERAL KEY
la.
in
land-bridgetheory
genre
lobe,
quincuncial,
than the
deciduous.
anthers, filiform,
Streptothamnus
pergamentaceous, entire
paired. Tepals
to
slightly
15—17, pink, puberulous
crenulate. Flowers
outside. Stamens 12
or
Leaves coriaceous,
coarsely, pungently
dentate. Flowers in
moorei
solitary, rarely
13. Placentas 5
Berberidopsis
b.
con-
anthers smooth ( Streptotham-
racemes.
beckleri
Tepals
13—
15, purple, glabrous but for the ciliolate margins. Placentas 3
Berberidopsis
corallina
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VOL.
No.
30,
1984
1,
VEGETATIVE KEY TO THE AUSTRALIAN
la.
Leaves
ous,
hastiform, pergamentaceous
never
waxy
glaucous,
Basal lateral
domatia
shortly
nerves
subcoriaceous, both sides concolor-
to
sideways (at
apex folded
absent,
SPECIES
with the midrib
concurrent
at
least when
Streptothamnus
b.
Leaves
on
and
cous
the vegetative
pale
hastiform, pergamentaceous,
domatia present, apex
beneath,
Basal lateral nerves
shoots often
branching
off
not
folded
Gen.
PI.
2
(1967) 205,
Veldk., trib.
nom.
glau-
when dried.
sideways
beckleri
Berberidopsis
Berberidopsideae Hutch.,
moorei
waxy
from the midrib
immediately
BERBERIDOPSIDEAE
dried).
base
inval.
nov.
superfl. pro Berberidopsidi Strepto-
thamnoque.
Frutices
scandentes, ligni
non-septatis
floribus
foveis
sine
ordine
u s:
valde
form,
developed,
either
into the inner
berry-like.
with
a
tecto
exterioris
ubi
6-13,
uno
stomatibus
evolutis aut
dense
aut
sepalis
strato
crystallo
in
positis
fructibus
distinctis aut
sine
torum ubi
baccoideis,
singulo
fibris
cyclocitosis bicyclicisve,
petaloideis transientibus,
epidermide interiore
unaquaeque
vessels
ones;
on
numerosis,
modo
testa
cellularum
tepalis
squamis
endo-
pallisadearum
continens, embryone
minuto.
-
Flowers
exclusively solitary, perforations
bordered
pits. Stipules
bisexual
hypogynous,
sepals,
outer
or
scalari-
absent. Leaves with
Petals well-
(always?).
tepals sepaloid gradually changing
basal scales absent. Stamens either in
single whorl,
a
6—
the torus, otherwise without an apparent arrangement. Fruit
developing
of
almost
distinctly
stomata.
petaloid
Testa
unico
bene
pollinis imperforato,
distinct from the
palisade layer
laminis
interioribus
tepalis
verticillo
Wood
bicyclic
densely placed
solitariis, perforationibus scalariformibus,
Hook. f.
shrubs.
to
or
in
fibres non-septate, with
cyclocytic
omnino
bisexualibus, petalis
lignificatarum
Berberidopsis
Scandent
13,
aut in
manifesto,
orienti, integumenti
foveolatarum
Ty p
fere
sepaloideis gradatim
staminibus
basalibus,
testali
vasis
areolatis, stipulis nullis,
hypogynicis (semper?)
exterioribus
cetera
distincte
endotestally,
strongly
inner
of the
epidermis
each with
lignified pitted cells,
outer
one
integument
crystal. Embryo
small.
BERBERIDOPSIS
Berberidopsis
Hook.f.
in
(1867) 964; Warburg
Fam.
ed.
2,
21
Curtis,
in E. &
Bot.
P.,
Mag. Ill,
Nat.
(1925) 394; Hutch.,
Pfl.
18
(1862)
Fam.
Gen. Fl. PI.
Ill,
2
t.
6a
Benth.
5343;
&
(1893) 15; Gilg
(1967)
207.
Hook.f.,
in
E.
&
Gen.
P.,
PI.
1
Nat. Pfl.
-Type: Berberidopsis coral-
lina Hook. f.
Scandent
Leaves
sub-3-
shrubs, branching sympodially,
estipulate,
or
in
a
5-plinerved.
spiral,
blades
Pedicels with
hypogynous, axillary, solitary
or
in
ovate
in flushes.
to ±
Axillary
hastiform,
buds collateral,
entire
to
1—several bracteoles. Flowers
many-flowered
racemes.
scaly.
coarsely dentate,
bisexual, acyclic,
Tepals 13—17, caducous,
J. F.
many lobes
anthers
introrsely
stamens.
as
from
dehiscing
into
cal, inconspicuous
tropous, 2—many
blackish
stigma.
Streptothamnus
beckleri
beckleri
ribbed when
Nat.
Fl. PI.
K, NSW, photo
in
Austr.
in
nervature, but
136
Ser.
et
al.,
to
±
New
3
dry,±
thecae,laterowhich
comb.
of the
1—4
with
thin
a
smooth when
nerves.
3
and
Checklist
(1982) 78,
Wales,
f.
Flowers
Beckler
the basal
nerves
f.
map
two nerves
as
N.S.W.
with small
pale,
with
to
on
the
first
years'
0.5
c.
shoots,
1.5—5.5
mm
cm
with
broadly ovate,
obovate
12
or
triangular,
±
hairs
simple
mens
to
c.
5,
mm
spathulate,
and
small
in
the
apex
hairs,
up
13; filaments 0.75—1
c.
0.35
each with
8
to
by
at
mm
long
many
to
4
mm
lobe.
mm
long;
Pistil
ascending
ones
loop-
those of the
nervature,
1.8—5.5
acuminate,
dots,
these also
or
cm,
to
folded
not
waxy
on
not
entire
glau-
the main
paired,
base with 1
secund.
2(—several)
15—17, broadly sessile,
rounded,
glabrous.
anthers 3-4.75
flask-shaped,
the inner
c.
mm
long,
6.5
mm
descending
ovules. Fruit
the
broadly ellip-
outside
Disk-lobes
long; stigma irregularly lobed;
to
blades
acuminate bracteoles with ciliolate
7 mm, apex
inside
606823,
in the
mucro,
main
axillary, solitary, rarely
wide, abruptly acuminate,
minutely papillose,
smooth; style in fruit up
centas
2
2
&
flowering
partaking
scattered, glandular
long, glabrous,
2,
Morley
no.
slightly cordate, margin
glands,
long, abruptly
in
Contr.
ed.
1862.
the
on
not
a
partaking
rounded
Austr. 1
b; Sleumer,
77; Morley
anno
down
margins, sometimes with another along its length. Tepals
to
attached
pulvinate, glabrous;
not
lower
122
(MEL, holo,
s.n.
River,
terminally produced
involute,
pendulous, slender,
minute, broadly ovate,
tic
epi-
boiled, raphe
endosperm
Rainforests
21d-f,
Clarence
shoot and
mucronate; beneath
(i.s.),
outermost
api-
pericarp;
(' becklerii')', Benth., Fl.
(1976) 262,
base with excavated domatia often with septate
Pedicels
an
ovules
minute.
28
(1862)
long, slender,
cm
sterile
smaller, basal
branches ovate,
3
Lectotype:
-
South
hastiform, large,
straight
Austr.
Fl. Austr. 8
New
Petioles
slightly crenulate, slightly
at
soon
nov.
South Wales
pergamentaceous, sub-3-plinerved, base
cous,
with
5, parietal,
or
excurrent, always branching off immediately from the midrib, 3—8.5 by
sideways
disk-
in Australia.
one
(1963) 2; Williams,
f. 52a.
(1983)
L), Australia,
those
trullate
Fl. N.E.
Briggs
subglabrous.
heterophyllous,
flowering
Chile,
in
of the
fruit, club-shaped
oily droplets; embryo
one
inner
endotesta crustaceous;
wing,
F.v.M., Fragm. Phyt.
Fl.
Herb.,
(1980) 7; Jessup
triangular,
with
sinuses
broad, dark, muriculate,
berry-like, indehiscent,
(F.v.M.) Veldk.,
Stud.
(1863) 108; Beadle,
Plants
in
as
short, muriculate;
pore-like apertures,
connective
Style persistent
Fruit
lateral
species,
2
the
narrower
1-locular; placentas
Ovary
disk, copious,
Berberidopsis
Toelken,
their bases in
with
fruit,
in
persistent
filaments stout,
row;
margins;
25
Montane rainforest.
Ecology.
ing
scarious
placenta.
per
Distribution. Two
N.S.W.
1
first with
at
top,
small lobe.
a
sausage-shaped
±
narrow,
1.
6—13,
fleshy, finely longitudinally
exotesta
extra-staminal,
in
in bud with
the
with wavy
apically produced
a
Disk
Australia
in
curved inward because of the smaller and
into slits
elongate
with
Stamens
subbasifix, muriculate,
lobes, slightly
a
smallest.
outermost
the
imbricate,
Veldkamp: Berberidopsis
12
puberulous
13. Sta-
or
incl. the
long,
ovary
apical,
glabrous,
ribbed; pla-
subglobose,
11—14
26
BLUMEA
10—12
by
3
to
up
2
diam.;
mm
blackish brown,
exotesta
Distribution. Australia: Queensland
Nat.
New South Wales
Park),
teau, N
of
Montane rainforest and
Acronychia
nervata,
Daphnandra
Baloghia
sp.,
from
January
from March, June,
Vernacular
Wood
Note.
stable
Beckler
6554
(NSW),
(L,
NSW; K, MO,
id.
(April
Very
Carron
(NSW),
BISH,
&
McGillivray
Coveny
Schodde
NSW),
s.n.
7070
RSA, n.v.), Earp
(L; A,
Orites
Flowering
m.
collections
(No
seen
&
(Williams
liana,
or
Harden).
4.5
to
up
glossy
to
high
m
or
more.
green, below
(sub)-
floriferous.
Fraser
Vickery
423
(K,
(NSW),
s.n.
Johnson
Moore
135
s.n.
Williams
et
al. 6017
(L),
Heron
Colvin
Fraser
s.n.
(NSW),
s.n.
Rod
(K, NSW),
10944
Smith
(BRI, n.v.),
White
&
681
(Jan.
s.n.
the
s.n.
'berry'.
Boorman
(NSW),
Con8451
(L, NSW; BRI, n.v.),
Johnson
(NSW),
in
(BRI, n.v.),
s.n.
(NSW),
s.n.
(Jan. 1934, NSW),
Hewitt
Briggs
(NSW),
s.n.
(K, NSW),
s.n.
(NSW),
L, NSW; CANB, n.v.), Shirley 2293/18 (NSW,
(E,
Streptothamnus moore!),
NSW),
&
1381
(NSW), Floyd
s.n.
&
Bird
Chisholm
(NSW),
be present
to
seems
(K, NSW), Coveny
CANB, n.v.),
3245
pulp
no
(K, NSW; MEL, n.v.),
s.n.
1952, K, NSW),
37
Jackson
(K,
November.
to
Vine
Redberry
Sleumer's remark
to
Sept. 1909, NSW),
s.n.
sassaphras,
pretty, pink and old gold. Fruits pendulous, red when ripe.
very
Contrary
(May,
Cissus antarctica,
825—1525
linearifolius, etc.,
Scrambling shrub, vine,
common.
Specimens.
s.n.
Mountain
notes.
Flowers
Scarce, locally
with Acacia bi-
vegetation
actinophylla, Nothofagus moorei,
brittle, much interlaced. Leaves above mid dull
glaucous.
Hastings
151°45'—153°E).
and
Diploglottis australis, Doryphora
(May—)July
Pla-
River, Mt
December.)
name.
Collectors'
Range, Lamington
Cephalaria cephalobotrys,
sp.,
from
March, fruiting
to
secondary
Senecio
excelsa, Polyosma cunninghamii,
Birdwood,
ellipsoid,
rows,
Spirabo, Dorrigo
head of
of
sp., Heritiera
Eucalyptus fastigiatus, Eugenia
Mt
Big
28°-32°S
Dicksonia antarctica,
sp.,
10
McPherson
between
edges
in
without stone-cells.
mesotesta
(Mt Roberts,
N of
Ebor,
Comboyne, Barrington Tops); roughly
Ecology.
1984
1,
of Clarence River,
(head
NNE of
Daisy Plains,
No.
30,
reddish. Seeds many,
diam., glabrous, smooth,
mm
by
VOL.
-
1878
Rodway
number
same
7568
1919, NSW),
for
(K; A,
BRI, n.v.).
2.
Berberidopsis
B.
corallina
Ill,
2
Chile
Pfl.
corallina Hook. f.
Hook. f.
in
(1891) 274;
1
Fam.
ed.
144;
2,
f.
Pfl.
Fam.
in
E. &
P.,
Nat.
Pfl.
Fam.,
f.
167
21
map
Blumea
Chile,
Plant
with
to
7
Univ.
Ann.
Arn.
(1979) 523,
in
Arauco,
K,
but
S
see
subglabrous.
some
by
Bol.
J.
Prov.
394,
Pizarro,
1; Keating,
25
holotype
(1925)
Fl.
Chile
Missouri
Arbor.
f.
of
Sin.
46
Bot.
56
g
Chil.
&
460-610
Gunckel,
1964).
Petioles
0.6—1.3
m,
-
v.
Heel,
Type:
Feb.
cm
Mus.
Bol.
1860
long,
J.
Linn.
Nac.
cm, coriaceous, sub-3-
or
5-plinerved,
Soc. Biol.
f.
Blumea
Pearce
1 &
23
126
rather
Nat. Pfl. Fam.
h; Reiche,
in
E. &
Bot.
Nat.,
2;
Grana
40
15
Fl.
Nat.
Mens.
58
93
(1966)
(1975) 35,
(1977) 361,
f.
46-53;
(K, holo; B, SGO, n.v.),
6
August
slender, pulvinate
lateral
P.,
London
Not.
Conception
('Prov. Valdivia,
outer
P.,
3 g &
Soc.
Hist.
septate hairs; blades ovate-oblong, the larger perhaps
3.5
f.
(1897) 170; Gilg
(1973) 277,
50
E. &
(1893) 15,
h; Bate-Smith,
Card.
8.
6a
Nachtr.
(1959) 153;
(1975) 20;
in
5343; Engl,
Ill,
(1964) 24, fig.;
46-48, phot.
Lota,
t.
(1862)
Nat.
Munoz
11-22; Miller,
18
P.,
(1964) 4; Gunckel,
33,
Mag. Ill,
E. &
(1895) 30; Engl,
(1962)
Bot.
Curtis,
Warb. in
1861' on
at
base,
slightly hastiform,
nerves
always
up
branch-
J. F.
off
ing
in the
especially
sideways
at
punctate,
Racemes terminal
puberulous
ciliolate
to
with 1
nally
8
mm,
6—10;
angular,
c.
style
brown,
mm
3
to
up
c.
Distribution.
for
waxy,
rows
of
very
finely
stiff, septate
many-flowered,
up
together, slender,
2—4.5
broadly
subglobose,
14
up
by
9
the
up
to
Disk-lobes 6—10.
inch the
long,
apical,
tri-
long, glabrous, smooth,
mm
ovary ribbed;
to
circular,
ovate to
glabrous.
mm
6
c.
cm
the smallest bracts, occasio-
to
4
c.
flask-shaped,
20
to
septately
placentas 3,
diam.;
mm
each with
shiny,
exotesta
Osorno
9766)
no.
de
(Cordillera
Lara-
Conception (Fundo Colcura,
de Lota, Centulmo,
(Bahia
Lota),
Calminahue,
Rio
Cautin
(Alma-
Bueno).
noted that the Puente Melizos in the Fundo Colcura
of the
locality
species (same
date and
locality
but Marticorena and party have found it still in Quebrada Honda in
be
yet in
extant
gardens
some
in
e.g. the
Chile,
one
of Mrs. Ana Manns,
Bocas, N of Valdivia, in the Botanical Garden of the University of Valdivia, and
elsewhere,
men
the inner
anthers
long;
mm
Pistil
Arauco
(San Ramon),
237),
1976. It may
Tres
folded
ovate-linear-lanceolate,
ciliolate, otherwise
would be the last known wild
Walker
not
length. Tepals (5?-) 13—15, broadly sessile,
its
coastal Cordilleras: Prov.
Chile,
Meyer (anno 1966,
Forest
0.5
2
or,
margin
with many stone-cells.
mesotesta
Valdivia
along
Fruit
quete, Quebrada Honda),
gro),
nervature,
base truncate,
not
or
secund,
to
bracts. Pedicels 1 (—3)
long; stigma 3-lobed;
mm
ovules.
upward
wide, acuminate,
lobe.
long
with 1
usually
2 bracteoles similar
or
but
glaucous
years' shoots,
rounded, margin
mm
ascending
axils
nerve
glabrous
filaments
0.5
in fruit
2—14
1
c.
apex
Stamens
looping
marginal teeth;
paler, slightly
the first
with 1
2 bracteoles
or
outermost ovate,
by
on
to
base
at
into the
27
in the main,
partaking
base, bracts reduced
at
long, glabrous,
8
slightly
the inner
base with
long, leafy
cm
excurrent
Australia
in
dentate, teeth glandular-tipped, apex acute, apiculate,
beneath
(i.s.);
the midrib,
leaves
larger
coarsely, pungently
hairs.
from
immediately
Veldkamp: Berberidopsis
e.g.
in White
in
Banks of streams,
Ecology.
Phytochemistry.
and small
Britain, where there is
Great
Craggs, Ambleside,
shaded
dense,
Presence of
enormous,
richly flowering speci-
175—610
places,
m.
from
quercetin, cyanidin (derived
of coffee- and
amounts
an
Westmoreland.
p-cumaric
acid in
scrambling
shrub
hydrolised
leaf
leucocyanidin)
(Bate-
extracts
Smith, 1962).
Collectors'
over
to
the tops
the
ground.
terminal,
Evergreen,
notes.
of
trees
Leaves
flowers
and
shrubs,
15
bright glossy
pendulous,
Sephanoides sephanoides.
December
to
setting
more
or
scarlet,
cuttings in
when available. It is very
Notes.
Engler (1891)
10, but I always
Gunckel
saw
the
in the
and from
per
pendulous, weeping
beneath. Inflorescence
fruit. In Chile
et
al.
field,
layers
in
Britain
remarked that the
too.
It is known
to
in
Sep-
species
be
easily
autumn, but also from seed,
as
few
as
6 anthers, others
say
there may be 7—
10.
as
from
flowering
flowering
in flower.
described
(1964) reported
masses
showy, possibly pollinated by
very
fruit. Marticorena
spring
showy
high,
liana, forming dense
branches
in December, in Great
might predominantly propagate vegetatively
grown from
or
strongly glaucous
Seeds 12—24
April, August, fruiting
never
or
green,
coral red
the colibri
tember, but there
m
few
as
5
tepals,
I
never
saw
less than 13.
BLUMEA
28
Grau
(L),
(G*), Junge
s.n.
marked
(Those
Specimens
11120
(3
s.n.
9766
Walker
(=
n.v.), Philippi
lost), Sangwin
G*), Wagner
Wygnanki
US, n.v.),
237; K;
(Sept.
s.n.
s.n.
1089
Lester-Garland
1966,
1140
693
(= Meyer
Manns
(L; CONC, n.v.), Meyer
Pearce
Suarez
126
(K; SGO,
Reiche
(March 1884, HBG, n.v.),
(24 Sept. 1967, L),
237
Boom
seen).
none
(Sept. 1921, K),
s.n.
(Feb. 1964, G*),
s.n.
s.n.
s.n.
Walker
1943, G*),
Gunckel,
(Sept. 1946, G*), Hollermayer
s.n.
(L; CONC, n.v.),
Pizarro
Sleumer
1886, K),
Feb.
(21
al.
et
Munoz
1984
1,
cf.
Gunckel,
Gunckel
1878, SGO, US, n.v.),
(March
s.n.
Hb.
No.
30,
1936, CONC, LIL, n.v.),
Marticorena
(1951, G, LIL, n.v.),
s.n.
in
April 1968, M, n.v.),
March
(11
G*
VOL.
-
(B,
s.n.
(March 1943,
s.n.
9766; A, BR, GH, F, LL, n.v.),
(March 1925, G*).
s.n.
STREPTOTHAMNUS
Streptothamnus F.v.M.,
Sleumer,
in
Jessup
Briggs
Scandent
Leaves
et
Austr.
Fl. Ser.
al.,
Fl. Austr.
8
in
blades
spiral,
a
lobes
Disk
but
absent.
filaments
introrse with 2
small lobe.
in
or
densely
numerous,
unequally
Anthers
long.
with
berry-like, indehiscent,
a more or
Petals
median-lateral
not
wings; endosperm
seen;
Distribution. One
Ecology.
1.
a
basifix,
1
Fl.
N.E.
(1863)
New
in
Plants
3—10
or
et
3
F. v. M.
collateral, scaly.
ovules
raceme.
deciduous.
not
in
groups,
latero-
smooth,
glabrous,
usual-
Calyx
quincuncial,
receptacle,
straight,
apically produced
into
a
vaguely 3-lobed. Ovary
not
epitropous,
and after
dry
with
very many.
leathery, thin, possi-
exotesta
subcoriaceous
to
moorei
lobed, sub-3-pli-
not
leafy
5,
the
pericarp;
boiling,
with
a
longitudinal
irregular,
be minute.
rounded to
28
('moon/'); (1863)
Herb.,
Checklist
(1976) 262; Williams,
Austr. 8
606827, photo
in
(1982) 76,
L, K,
Fl. Ser.
NSW?
f.
Cmoorei'); Benth.,
(1963) 3; Beadle,
Rainforests
21a-c,
see
172
136
map
note),
76.
New
-
N.S.W.
Type
South
Fl.
Stud.
ed.
2,
2
C. Moore
:
Wales,
Clarence
anno 1862.
Petioles
in
concurrent
(1862)
Contr. N.S.W. Nat.
al.,Fl.
±
pergamentaceous
partaking
shortly
Wales
Briggs
no.
before
glabrous.
cm,
nerves
tusely
in
(MEL, holo,
River,
on
108;
(1967) 206;
in Australia.
Austr. 3
108; Sleumer,
South
(1980) 7; Jessup
s.n.
less
foveolate when
embryo reported
buds
(1863)
2
moorei F.v.M.
F.v.M., Fragm. Phyt.
Austr.
endotesta
species
1
Montane rainforest.
Streptothamnus
S. moorei
aril,
Austr.
bracteoles. Flowers bisexual
usually
inserted
thickish
bly slightly fleshy, finely, longitudinally
chalazal
3
rarely
1-locular; placentas indistinct, possibly 3, parietal;
Fruit
Axillary
fruit; stigma mushroom-shaped,
in
Fl.
Fam. Fl. Pl.
elliptic, entire,
slits; connective inconspicuous,
longitudinal
Style persistent
to
with 2,
quincuncial, persistent.
Stamens
Benth.,
(1963) 2; Hutch.,
in flushes.
ovate
Pedicels
glandular-dotted.
not
5-lobed,
(1862) 27;
136
(1982) 76,-Lectotype: Streptothamnus
(always?), cyclic, hypogynous, axillary
ly
3
shrubs, branching sympodialiy,
estipulate,
nerved,
Phyt.
Herb.,
Fragm.
Contr. N.S.W. Nat.
the
with
bipulvinate,
to
looping
the
1.2—5
subcoriaceous,
main
nervature,
midrib before
slightly cordate, margin
cm
waxy
long, slender;
glaucous
never
on
blades 5—11.5
both
excurrent
branching off,
domatia
entire with minute
glands,
sides,
into the
absent,
apex
by
basal
margin,
base
ob-
acuminate,
J. F.
folded
years'
to
times
the inner up
largest,
outer
ciliolate,
glabrous,
15
2
by
mm
the seeds
Lismore,
25'
long,
mm
Pistil
long; stigma
of the conical
Seeds up
flask-shaped,
1.5
c.
25,
obli-
slightly
inch the narrow, 0.25—
up
receptacle, ellipsoid,
somewhat
6
to
mm
diam.; ovary
mm
up
pyramidal,
up
not
25
to
blackish
(i.s.), smooth, glabrous,
to c.
the
outer
red,
3.5
to
Queensland (Mt Roberts, Lamington
New
Mts),
South Wales
of Clarence
(head
between
28°10'—29°30'S
Park, Purling
Nat.
Tweed
River,
and
Range,
152°25'-153°
E.
gether
with
Montane rainforests and
Flowers very
ing in May, August,
on
the
Jessup
duplicate
is
One
the type,
not
date,
no
closed
the
flower of
may therefore be
open all flowers; this
The
flowers
of
Floyd
were
sepals
and 7
or
Specimens.
Dunn
381
Sept.
1979, L),
a
(ante 1862, K,
Smith
NSW).
s.n.
(30
Bauerlen
37
1864
labeling
in MEL
(L)
s.n.
be checked
s.n.
5
were
of each,
was
but
(!).
sometimes
to-
recorded
once).
both
sides.
on
green
locally
common.
but
data
had 6
the
s.n.
The sheet cited
are
Flowerinsuffi-
two
the
1943, BRI, n.v.),
date?).
The
pistil altogether, androdioecy
the
available,
number of
flowers had 5
it seemed wasteful
petals,
and 4
sepals,
4
one
sepals
4
and
petals
and 6
sepals
petals:
and
an
in
inter-
petals,
and
innermost smaller than the others.
some
pulp,
we
(August 1894, NSW),
(NSW),
(accession
seen.
in the field.
variable in
sepals
is in-
(NSW)
twice and the NSW
species
made
was
not
lacked
easily
two
Elvers
&
Johnson
NSW; MEL, n.v.), Shirley
Dec.
anno
mistake in
(NSW; BRI, n.v.),
Johnson
Rare
either Moore collected the
Sleumer said the fruits contained
n.v.),
cream.
only
Harden).
shiny
In view of the few collections
one
petals,
so
holotype
can
mediary sepaloid petal,
5
&
Leaves
December, fruiting in October,
Tomlins
possible.
three flowers there
to
type C. Moore
as
deed marked with that date,
sheet in K has
(Williams
liana.
vegetation,
altitude
(but
few collections.
too
gave
Vine
scrub,
pale pink
secondary
1000 m
c.
Redberry
October,
of
edges
(q.v.),
Scandent
Petals
fragrant.
ciently given
Coast
name.
notes.
Collectors'
Notes.
beckleri
Berberidopsis
Vernacular
one
mm
the
thick, margin
anthers
long, glabrous, smooth;
appendage.
style.
rather
broadly sessile,
apical
Alstonville, Cangai), roughly
Ecology.
to
mm,
some-
below
one
(4-)5(-7), slightly unequal,
obtuse. Petals
visible outside
not
fourth
a
recurv-
long, glabrous,
mm
and
the first
on
pedicels
fleshy, margin ciliolate,
thecae,
2
0.3
c.
pedicel
1.5—2.25
to
Flowers
mucronate.
brownish.
exotesta
Tambourine
mm
because
slightly stipitate
diam.;
4
up
Distribution. Australia:
Falls,
to
mm,
4.75—7
by
smooth
attenuated into the
abruptly
not
loose raceme, secund;
the
along
3.25
by
smooth; style
diam.,
mm
a
broadly elliptic,
8—9
elliptic,
glabrous,
long,
mm
10 in
to
up
of the smaller inner
ribbed. Fruit
by
2.5
to
obtuse. Filaments up
que because
long,
±
apiculate,
somewhere
one
(4—)5(—6),
Calyx-lobes
smallest,
0.35
third
a
or
29
Australia
bracteoles basal, minute,
long, glabrous,
cm
with
calyx.
the
somewhat
(i.s.),
shoots, axillary, solitary
2—3
ed,
side
one
in
Veldkamp: Berberidopsis
Francis
have
Clemens
s.n.
& Constable
s.n.
(30
Oct.
s.n.
seen
any.
(20-25
Oct.
1943, L; BRI,
(Nov. 1933, BRI, n.v.), Floyd
s.n.
2293/18 (NSW,
Tomlins
not
(14
June
same nr.
1957, NSW),
for B.
1908, L, NSW),
beckleril),
White
s.n.
s.n.
(7
Moore s.n.
Smith &
(Jan. 1919,