New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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B00018
Received 6 June 2000; accepted 10 October 2000

On several little known species of Plagiochila in Australasia and the Pacific with description of Plagiochila sublyallii sp. nov. from Papua New Guinea

M. L. SO

Biology Department
Hong Kong Baptist University
224 Waterloo Road, Hong Kong
email: mlso@hkbu.edu.hk

Abstract  Plagiochila sublyallii sp. nov. from Papua New Guinea is described and illustrated. Eleven species names are newly placed in synonymy. Plagiochila paschalis Steph. is conspecific with P. biciliata Steph. Plagiochila choristophylla Dugas, P. dogniensis Steph., P. levis Steph., P. parisii Steph., P. sanguinea Steph., and P. taetera Steph. are treated as conspecific with P. cristophylla Steph. Plagiochila sinclairii Mitt., Plagiochila litoralis Steph., P. reischeckiana Steph., and P. traversii Steph. are conspecific with P. intertexta Hook.f. & Taylor. Plagiochila biciliata and P. cristophylla are described and illustrated. Lectotypes are designated for P. cristophylla, P. parisii, and P. sanguinea.

Keywords  new species; new synonyms; Plagiochila; Australasia; Pacific

New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2001, Vol. 39: 109-114

0028-825X/00/3901-0109 $7.00 (c) The Royal Society of New Zealand 2001

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