10. Popowia clavata Diels
Popowia clavata Diels in Engl. Jahrb. III 1915 181. - Type : Kaiserin Augusta
Fluss, Felsspitze, im Gebirgswald 1400 - 1500 m alt, bluehend am 5 Aug 1913, Ledermann 12633 B n.v.; paratype Ledermann 10099 BO,L,
12711, 12827 BO,L. Shrub or trees 1 – 15 m high. Young twigs greyish - dark brown, glabrous,
striate. Petioles 3 – 6 mm long. Leaves length 12 – 19 cm, breadth 4.5 – 6.5 cm, dry shining, narrowly ovate, elliptic, apex acuminate or obtuse, base
cuneate, unequal-sided, chartaceous, on both side pilose when young leaves, upper surface glabrous and lower surface pubescent in adult leaves, the lower
glabrous on the midrib and veins, nerves 6 – 7 pairs, angle acute ascending having a direction up wards with an oblique base, reticulation prominent,
scalariform, variously size. Flowers in corymb little a cluster of flowers, peduncle with few flowers, 2 – 12 mm long; pedicel 6 – 10 mm long, very
straight conspicuous clavate club-shapegradually thickening up wards from a very tapering base – thickened sub middle bracteole. Sepal , 3 mm length,
2.5 mm wide, triangular – ovate, concave, pubescent; Petals whitish, base connate; outer petal, 4.5 mm length, 2.5 mm wide, obovate – elliptic,
pubescent; inner petal 2.5 mm length, 3 mm wide, thick, excavatus. Stamens 18, carpel 4; stigma sub-pyriform, obtuse. Ripe carpels 1.
DISTRIBUTION : NEW GUINEA. PAPUA NEW GUINEA PNG: Sepik District Sepik Gebit and Morobe District Aseki valley.
ECOLOGY :
Disturbed in primary forest on limestone hill, with altitude up to 120 meters above sea level.
NOTES : The upper surface of leaf glabrous, chartaceous, petioles up to 6
mm long and ripe carpel 1.
SPECIMEN EXAMINED. PAPUA NEW GUINEA PNG. S e p ik D i s t r i c t : Sepik Gebit, 1912-1913, C.L. Ledermann 10099 paratype: BO, L; Sepik
Gebiet, 1912 – 1913, C.L. Ledermann 10208 L; Sepik Gebiet, fr. 1912 – 1913, C.L. Ledermann 12827 paratype : BO, L. Morobe District: Aseki valley ca. 2
miles South East of Aseki, fr. 27 Apr 1966, R. Schodde and L.A. Craven 5059 L.
1
2
1. Sepik Gebit 2. Morobe Aseki valley
Fig. 24. Distribution of Popowia clavata
Diels
MALESIA REGION
MALESIA REGION
11. Popowia shefferiana Diels
Popowia shefferiana Diels in Engl. Jahrb. 49 1912 136. - Type : Beccari 291, New Guinea FI n.v. BO, L.
Shrub or small tree 2 – 10 meter high with spreading, slender. Young twigs the grey - blackish colored, glabrous. Petioles 4 mm long, glabrous. Leaves
6.5 – 12 by 2.8 – 4.5 cm, elliptic - lanceolate, shortly acuminate, base cuneate, unequal-side, chartaceous, both surface subgranular, the upper glabrous –
glossy, the lower glabrous on the midrib and nerves; nerves 7 – 9 pairs; reticulation prominent, scalariform fine. Flowers extra-axillary. Petals at the
base connate; the outer ones more than shorter, their shape and size about the same as the sepals the inner ones two times as long, at the base not clawed but
subcordate, the top margin swollen, and lightly coherent, folded in wards; stamens 12, in two rows, the connective at the base, ovaries 8, ovule one;
stigma falled, papillose; fruit small, globose.
DISTRIBUTION : MOLUCCAS : Kairatu Ceram Island; Totodoku Morotai Island. NEW GUINEA : PAPUA IRIAN JAYA Province Aru
Archipelago Kobroor Island; Mamberamo Jayapura; Pami, Tafelberg, and Sidei Manokwari and PAPUA NEW GUINEA PNG Yapa Sepik District;
Morobe Morobe District; Middle Tauri R. Gulf District, Brown R., Kurira, Maipa, Mori R., and Port Moresby Central District, Brahman Madang
District.
ECOLOGY :
Disturbed in lowland rain forest on flats, on coral covered limestone by primary forest.
NOTES : Native name: Mak’lum, fafima - afuy Kobroor; kumiyagka Waskuk - ambunti, Fahabi Wagu- Ambunti – Sepik District.
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