Argyrella richardsiae, a new species of Melastomataceae from the wet miombo woodlands of south-central Africa.

ABSTRACT: A new species from the wet miombo woodlands of Tanzania and Angola, Argyrella richardsiae Veranso-Libalah & G.Kadereit, sp. nov. (Melastomataceae, Melastomateae), is described and illustrated. Although the widespread Argyrella canescens also occurs in Tanzania and northeastern Angola, A. richardsiae is morphologically most similar to Argyrella bambutorum known only from the Northwest of Cameroon, but differs by its indumentum of glandular trichomes on the entire plant (versus a mixture of stellate and glandular trichomes in other species of Argyrella), leaf-blades with serrulate margins (versus entire margins in A. bambutorum) and lateral nerves that become faint mid-way and never reach the leaf apex (versus conspicuous lateral nerves percur

SUBMITTER: Veranso-Libalah MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5546389 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature