Download large, simple, exstipulate leaves. Inflorescences axillary

BLUMEA
21
87—89
(1973)
a new
Anakasia,
genus
from west
of Araliaceae
New
Guinea
W.R. Philipson
Department
specimens of
Four
neighbouring
area
Araliaceous
an
Meryta, but the flowers
endosperm
but their
general facies
as
require
to
a
new
genus.
a
The
the ends of the branches recall the habit of
is
distinctive features of that
well-defined, and
articulation below the
an
smooth),
is
at
share the highly
not
The technical floral and fruit
ovary.
there is
distinctive
so
hermaphrodite, the calyx
are
below the
occurs
Polyscias (e.g.
leaves clustered
do
Peninsula and
collected in the Vogelkop
species
are
Zealand.
Canterbury, New
of
Botany, University
of SW. New Guinea
large, simple, oblanceolate
particular, they
of
characters
the
flower,
is unlike that
a
distinct
are not
style
arms
genus,
genus:
in
articulation
unlike those of
free, and the
are
and this, together with
the distinctive inflorescence and leaf, makes the plant quite different from
species of
any
Polyscias.
ANAKASIA Philipson,
Frutex foliis
grandibus simplicibus exstipulatis.
Pedicelli brevissimi infra flores articulati.
praedita.
deltoidea.
Stamina
5 vel
5 vel
6-loculatum.
sulcatus.
Exocarpium
(4)
Shrub with
racemosely
crassis,
stylis (4)
Pyrenae
large, simple,
Inflorescentiae
antheris
5
vel 6
amplis,
compressae
R. harms
umbellules. Pedicels
very
with
6-celled.
fleshy with (4)5
Disc
6
or
stylar
arms.
when dry. Exocarp fleshy. Pyrenes compressed,
Anakasia
Frutex
sessilia vel
integro
simplicifolia Philipson,
glaber,
altus.
m.
5
petiolo brevi.
vel
indistincto.
undulato,
Rhachis
costa
simplex
lanceolatas ferens. Pedunculi
usque
ad
annularis
15
mm.).
dentibus
Rami
Lamina
sp.
lenticellis
lanceolata,
prominenti,
vel
divisa,
axillary. Rachis
circa
n
ad 135
Ovarium
glabrum.
x
cm.
notati.
18 cm., base
lateralibus
ad 70
bearing
below the
Stamens
triangular.
broadly obconic,
Endosperm
Folia
ad
apices
attenuata,
(4)5
—
smooth.
ubi
matura
5
minutis. Alabastra
mm.
2
mm.
longa.
Discus umbone centrali
in sicco 3 —4
reticulo
crassa,
3 —4
mm.
Stamina filamentis
formato arctc
ramorum
congesta,
apice acuminata, margine
arcuato-adscendentibus,
longa,
(inferioribus exceptis) exorientes,
bracteis
6 minutis. Petala leviter carnosa,
longis, 4-locularibus.
articulation
an
broadly obovoid, strongly ribbed
crustaceous.
prominentibus
nervis
bractearum axillis
Umbellulae
obconicum,
pronunenter
nov.
usque
usque
Fruit
late
laeve.
6, valvate,
or
5
racemnsis
sicco
inferum,
Ovarium
late obovoideus in
Inflorescences
short
timhelliilis
minutes. Petala 5 vel 6, valvata,
Endospermium
crustaceae.
leaves.
exstipulate
dorsifixis.
coronatus.Fructus
short rim with minute lobes. Petals
a
axillaris.
Calyx annuliformis,lobis
6, filaments thick, anthers large, dorsifixed. Ovary inferior,
or
or
crassus,
carnosum.
arranged
flower. Calyx
5
6, filamentis
Discus
nov.
gen.
mm.
longi (in
longa. Calyx
lads,
appressis
aliquantum
bracteas parvas
fructu
brevis
antheris 0.75
subulatis ramis
mm.
mox
w
ultra
calycem pandentibus.
sistentibus in
depressione
Fructus
terminali.
c.
2 x
1,5 cm,
in
sicco
sulcis
(4)
5 vel
6
prominentibus, styli
ramis per-
88
BLUMEA
Anakasia
fruit,
x
simplicifolia
6; 4.
flower
1.
bud,
Leaf,
x
x 0.15;
12; 5.
2.
VOL.
inflorescence,
mature
fruit,
X 2.
XXI,
x 0.3;
(1—4:
No.
3.
a
I,
1973
single umbellule, bearing
Beccari
P.
P.
282.)
one
immature
W.
Glabrous shrub,
crowded
135
at
Anakasia
the ends of the branches, sessile
18 cm,
X
PHILIPSON:
narrowed gradually
or
forked,
to
70
long,
cm
at
with
or
the base,
to
mid-rib prominent, lateral veins arching
simple
Nov.
gen.
(Araliaceae)
a very
acuminate, margin entire
apex
upwards, reticulation rather
maturity
mm
5
3
15
mm
mm
in fruit. Umbellules with about
long.
rim with
Calyx
Stamens: fdaments
or
5
11
0.75
sistent
Fruit
with (4)
stylearms
BW
6312 (L).
Notes.
a
5
mm
ca.
65
m,
1954,
Southwest.
—
A
shrub with
Ramoi,
Royen
4023
Anakasia,
stout
outer
female, though he
occurs
in
attached
primary forest
The generic
Babo,
50 m,
ca.
name
is
2
mm
long.
with
Disc
with the
cm
to
dry about
>
a
the
spread beyond
2x1.5
as
erect
are
(FI, type);
1941, Aet
bearing tufts
branches
all
Evidently
are
the disc yellow, the anthers
It
near
flowers of the umbellules
seen
soon
to
cream,
near
sea
flowers
per-
of
one
between Steenkool
10 m,
40—50
large simple leaves.
probably male and those
are
mature
1958,Kalkman
in flower and reflexed in fruit. He
cannot
structurally
at
the
centre
be confirmed from
hermaphrodite,
green
and
but
soon
all
falls,
fruit blue (azure-violet) and aromatic.
level.
derived from
ca.
98 (L).
central pedicels. The corolla is
and the
road
south ofTeminaboean,
could not be certain of this. His observations
the material available.
developing fruits
slightly fleshy,
which
arms
1872, Beccari P.P. 282
(L); Wersar,
branches
Beccari described the inflorescence
noted that the
long, elongating
depression.
Pen.
van
mm
long. Ovary glabrous.
prominent ridges when dry, about
6
or
terminal
Vogelkop
NEW GUINEA.
and Teinboeni,
in
to
undulate,
indistinct. Rachis
minute bracts. Flower buds when
central boss formed by closely appressed subulate
calyx.
or
thick, bearing small lanceolate bracts.
minute teeth. Petals
6
broad; anthers 4-celled,
Leaves
short petiole, lanceolate, up
Peduncles arising from the axils of all but the lowest bracts, 3 —4
ca.
89
high, with branches marked with prominent lenticels.
m.
5
R.
of the localities.