Pandanus grayorum (Pandanaceae), a new species endemic to north-eastern Queensland (Australia)
Martin W. Callmander
A G , Sven Buerki B , Frank A. Zich C D , Ashley R. Field C E and Timothy Gallaher F
A Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève, Chemin de l’Impératrice 1, CP 71, CH-1292 Chambésy, Switzerland.
B Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA.
C Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Cairns Campus, McGregor Road, Smithfield, Qld 4878, Australia.
D National Research Collections Australia, Commonwealth Industrial and Scientific Research Organisation (CSIRO), GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
E Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Qld 4870, Australia.
F Herbarium Pacificum, Bishop Museum, Department of Natural Sciences, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI 96817-2704, USA.
G Corresponding author. Email: martin.callmander@ville-ge.ch
Australian Systematic Botany 34(4) 327-335 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB20033
Submitted: 10 December 2020 Accepted: 27 April 2021 Published: 7 June 2021
Abstract
Pandanus grayorum Callm., Buerki & Gallaher (Pandanaceae) is newly described from the Wet Tropics of north-eastern Queensland in Australia. It is the second Australian species other than P. gemmifer H.St.John known to reproduce by axillary plantlets on aerial branches. It can be distinguished from P. gemmifer and P. solms-laubachii F.Muell. by the dimensions of its leaves, shape and dimensions of its syncarps, and by the morphology of its phalanges. The placement of P. grayorum in a molecular phylogeny confirmed morphological evidence and showed that the new species clusters with P. gemmifer and P. solms-laubachii in a clade closely related to the P. tectorius Parkinson complex. Pandanus grayorum is known from near the banks of the lower reaches of Mulgrave, Russell, Johnstone and Moresby rivers and associated subcoastal flood plains. Most collection records are from areas outside national parks and a preliminary conservation assessment of Vulnerable is suggested using the IUCN Red List. Finally, a key to north-eastern Queensland Pandanus species is also provided.
Keywords: Pandanaceae, Pandanus, Queensland, vegetative propagation.
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