A revision of the Loranthaceae of New Guinea and the south-western Pacific

1974 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 531 ◽  
Author(s):  
BA Barlow

The Loranthaceae of New Guinea and the south-western Pacific comprise 12 genera, 59 species, 11 subspecies and 2 varieties. Of the species recorded, approximately one-half are endemic to the New Guinea mainland. About 20 other species are endemic in the area dealt with, most having distributions in New Guinea and adjacent islands. Nine species also occur in Australia, and five species extend to Indomalaya. Twelve species are described as new, viz. Amylotheca acuminatifolia, Lepeostegeres deciduus, Amyema angulare, A. apodum, A. brassii, A. canaliculatum, A. dilatipes, A. involvens, A. kebarense, Sogerianthe cupuliformis, Dendrophthoe pelagica and D. trichanthera. Five subspecies are described as new, viz. Amyema conspicuum subsp. fulvicalyx, A. scandens subsp. crassifolium, A. seemenianum subsp. flexuosum and A. wichmannii subspp. purum and aggregatum. One variety is described as new, viz. Macrosolen cochinchinensis var. lanceolatus. There are 15 new combinations, viz. Decaisnina djamuensis, D. micranthes, D. papuana, D. parvifolia, D. pedicellata, D. stenopetala, Amylotheca banksiana, Amyema scandens subsp. plicatulum, A. artense var. papuanum, A. seemenianum subsp. melastomifolium, A. squarrosum subsp. rhopalanthes, A. strongylophyllum subspp. rigidgorum and barbellatum, A. tetraflorum and .A. tetrapetalum. Chromosome numbers are given where known.

Author(s):  
Ian M. Turner ◽  
Timothy M.A. Utteridge

The taxonomy and distribution of Pacific Annonaceae are reviewed in light of recent changes in generic delimitations. A new species of the genus Monoon from the Solomon Archipelago is described, Monoon salomonicum I.M.Turner & Utteridge sp. nov., together with an apparently related new species from New Guinea, Monoon pachypetalum I.M.Turner & Utteridge sp. nov. The confirmed presence of the genus in the Solomon Islands extends the generic range eastward beyond New Guinea. Two new species of Huberantha are described, Huberantha asymmetrica I.M.Turner & Utteridge sp. nov. and Huberantha whistleri I.M.Turner & Utteridge sp. nov., from the Solomon Islands and Samoa respectively. New combinations are proposed: Drepananthus novoguineensis (Baker f.) I.M.Turner & Utteridge comb. nov., Meiogyne punctulata (Baill.) I.M.Turner & Utteridge comb. nov. and Monoon merrillii (Kaneh.) I.M.Turner & Utteridge comb. nov. One neotype and four lectotypes are designated. The geographic patterns exhibited by nine native Annonaceae genera, that range in the Pacific beyond New Guinea, are discussed.


1991 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 299 ◽  
Author(s):  
NC Duke

In Australasia (including Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and other islands in the south-western Pacific) the mangrove genus Avicennia L. consists of five species: A. alba Bl., A. integra N. C. Duke, A. marina (Forsk.) Vierh., A. oficinalis L. and A. rumphiana Hallier f. Based on morphological characters and supported by allele patterns in isozyme studies (reported elsewhere), A. marina is divided into three varieties. Keys, descriptions, brief synonymy, descriptive figures and distribution maps are provided for each of the seven taxa.* Aust. Inst. Marine Sci. Contrib. No. 520.


Author(s):  
Modest Guţu ◽  
Thomas Iliffe

Leptochelia Vatulelensis(Crustacea: Tanaidacea), A New Species From Anchialine Caves of the South-Western PacificLeptochelia vatulelensisn. sp., discovered on the small islands of Vatulele (Fijian group) and Ouvéa (Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia), is described and illustrated. The new species is distinguished from the others of the"Leptochelia-dubiagroup" (to which it is generally similar) by the following combination of morphological characteristics: (1) the presence of three to four distal setae on the maxilliped basis; (2) merus of pereopods III and IV with only a distosternal seta; (3) endopod of the uropods formed of four (rarely three) articles; (4) males with two (sometimes three) relatively short aesthetascs on the first five articles of the antennular flagellum; (5) male cheliped with a diminished dimorphism; (6) males with a vertical comb-row of setae on the cheliped propodus. Although it inhabits inland, anchialine caves, the new species lacks morphological features that are characteristic of some cave species.


Antiquity ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (265) ◽  
pp. 818-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Hope ◽  
Jack Golson

At the south and north limits of our region are mountainous areas very different from the open arid spaces of the Australian continent between. In the north, the high country of New Guinea offers a complex and well-studied environmental sequence as the arena for early and puzzling human adaptations, precursor of the extraordinary societies of the island today.


Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4991 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
MING KAI TAN ◽  
SIGFRID INGRISCH ◽  
CAHYO RAHMADI ◽  
TONY ROBILLARD

Heminicsara Karny, 1912 is a katydid genus of Agraeciini from the Axylus genus group. It currently comprises 62 species from mainly New Guinea and surrounding archipelagos. Based on recent fieldwork in Lobo in West Papua, Indonesia, a new species of Heminicsara is described here: Heminicsara incrassata sp. nov. It is most readily characterised from congeners and other species of the Axylus genus group by the male tenth abdominal tergite forming a large shield-shaped plate. This represents the first species of Heminicsara described and known from the south-west of New Guinea.  


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