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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 BLUMEA 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 BLUMEA 24 - 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,