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A NEW SPECIES OF DISSOCHAETA BLUME (MELASTOMATACEAE) FROM KALIMANTAN (BORNEO, INDONESIA)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2006

G. KADEREIT
G. KADEREIT
Affiliation:
Institut für Spezielle Botanik und Botanischer Garten, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Dissochaeta atrobrunnea (Melastomataceae–Dissochaeteae) from Kalimantan (Borneo, Indonesia) is described and illustrated. The species can be assigned to Dissochaeta sect. Dissochaeta and is easily recognized by its dense cover of light brown, sessile, stellate hairs and dark brown, 4–6 mm long bristles on branches, leaf undersurfaces, petioles, inflorescences, bracts and hypanthia. Like all other species of Dissochaeta sect. Dissochaeta, D. atrobrunnea shows heterantherous flowers.

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BorneoDissochaeta sect. DissochaetaheterantheryKalimantanMacrolenes
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Edinburgh Journal of Botany , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 3 - 8
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2006, Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

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