Neoalsomitra schultzei
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Description
Small climber, annual? stem slender, subglabrous;
Leaves:
Inflorescences glabrous, all or predominantly male-flowered, sometimes with a few female flowers co-axillary with lowermost branch(es), branches few, consisting of 5-10 male-flowered racemes;
Fruit 1(-6) per infructescence, solitary at leafy node, or peduncled, 2.5-3 cm long, glabrous, base rounded, 1-1.2 cm wide at truncate apex;
Seeds 15-20, obovate with narrowed base, 6-7 by 4-5 mm, margin 5-7 coarsely dentate or tuberculate, faces finely warty, wing c. 9 by 4-5 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Papua New Guinea present, Sepik, lower Fly River, Central Prov present
New Guinea (Papua New Guinea, known from a few collections only (Sepik, lower Fly River, Central Prov.)).
Taxonomy
1 The present description of N. schultzei, drawn from the collections Brass 8149 and Pullen 6847, is somewhat doubtful because the type, Schultze 170, got lost, but Cogniaux’s protologue agrees very well. A designation of a neotype should wait for a good collection from the type locality, Sepik (Augusta River).
2 Neoalsomitra schultzii is characterised within the genus by a disc-like thickened receptacle. It forms together with N. capricornica (Australia), N. hederifolia and N. pilosa a group with fused filaments within Neoalsomitra.