Psychotria corrugata (Rubiaceae, Psychotrieae), a new species from the Hindenburg Wall, Western Province, Papua New Guinea
Stephanus Venter
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Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia. Email: fanie.venter@viewnaturalhistory.com
Australian Systematic Botany 32(3) 134-138 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB18012
Submitted: 13 March 2018 Accepted: 13 November 2018 Published: 31 May 2019
Abstract
Psychotria corrugata S.Venter is newly described from the Hindenburg Wall area in the Star Mountains of Papua New Guinea. It can easily be distinguished from other Psychotria species by the curved, narrow, coriaceous and corrugated leaves, contracted panicle and papillate corolla lobes.
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