Balanophora coralliformis Barcelona, Tandang & Pelser 2014, sp. nov.
- 1. School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
- 2. Philippine National Herbarium (PNH), Botany Division, National Museum of the Philippines, P. Burgos St., Manila, Philippines. E-mail: sue 93653 @ yahoo. com
Description
Balanophora coralliformis Barcelona, Tandang & Pelser, sp. nov. (Figs. 1 & 2)
Type: — PHILIPPINES. Luzon: Aurora Province, San Luis Municipality, Mt. Mingan, beside trail en route to summit, 15°27’48.8” N, 121°23’43.3” E, c. 1725 m, 23 February 2014, Barcelona 3895 with Pelser & Tandang (staminate plant; holotype: PNH, isotypes: CHR, K, PUH, US).
Balanophora coralliformis differs from all other described Balanophora species in the coral-like growth of repeatedly branched aboveground tubers.
Also the poorly known B. fungosa J.R. Forster & G. Forster (1775: 99) ssp. indica (Arnott 1838: 37) Hansen (1972: 100) var. minor (Eichler in De Candolle 1873: 145) Hansen (1972: 106) from south India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand (Hansen 1972, Nickrent 1997 onwards, Su et al. 2012) is described as having elongated, cylindrical tuber segments (Hansen 1972, Su et al. 2012), but photos on the Parasitic Plant Connection website (Nickrent 1997 onwards) suggest that these are subterranean. Furthermore, amongst others, the leaves of this variety are more numerous (15–35 vs. 4 or 5) and spirally arranged (vs. opposite), and the staminate flowers are actinomorphic (vs. bisymmetric).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PNH, CHR, K, PUH
- Event date
- 2014-02-23
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-02-23
- Scientific name authorship
- Barcelona, Tandang & Pelser
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Santalales
- Family
- Balanophoraceae
- Genus
- Balanophora
- Species
- coralliformis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Balanophora coralliformis Pelser, Tandang & Barcelona, 2014
References
- Forster, J. R. & Forster, G. (1775) Characteres generum plantarum. London, pp. 1 - 150. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 4448
- Arnott, G. W. (1838) Some account of the genus Langsdorffia. Annals of Natural History 2: 36 - 39. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933809496649
- Hansen, B. (1972) The genus Balanophora J. R. & G. Forster. A taxonomic monograph. Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 28: 1 - 196.
- De Candolle, A. L. P. P. (1873) Balanophoraceae. Prodromus 17: 117 - 150.
- Nickrent, D. L. (1997 onwards) The parasitic plant connection. Available from: http: // www. parasiticplants. siu. edu.
- Su, H. - J., Murata, J. & Hu, J. - M. (2012) Morphology and phylogenetics of two holoparasitic plants, Balanophora japonica and Balanophora yakushimensis (Balanophoraceae), and their hosts in Taiwan and Japan. Journal of Plant Research 125: 317 - 326. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10265 - 011 - 0447 - 5