Gossia clusioides subsp. bleuensis N. Snow, subsp. nov.

(Figs 7; 8A; 10B)

Leaf blades strongly bullate, 4.0-8.0(-11.5) cm, narrowly elliptic. The inflorescence can be up 8.5 cm long, exceeding adjacent leaves. The growth form in profile often is slender.

TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov., Rivière Bleue reserve, forested slopes 300 m, 30.VII.1981, McPherson 4001 (holo-, P [P00402735]; iso-, BISH [fragment], MO, NOU [NOU030915], PTBG, WELTU).

PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. GrandeTerre, South Prov., Rivière Bleue, 22.II.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 10873 (P[P00402729]) ; Bon Secours, Baumann-Bodenheim 11847 (P[P00402730]) ; Rivière Bleue, Mois de Mai, 23. VI.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 14045 (MO[MO-5163034], P[P00402727]) ; Forêt Faux Bon Secours, 9. V.1981, MacKee 39042 (NOU [NOU029540], P[P02089862, P02089863]) .

REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P02089863.

ETYMOLOGY. — From its occurrence in the vicinity of Rivière Bleue.

DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Southeast Grande Terre (Fig. 7); forested slopes over ultramafics, 300- 450 m. Flowering May and June; fruiting confirmed only for July to December.

REMARKS

Further fieldwork may reveal this as being the same taxon as G. a. subsp. avanguiensis subsp. nov., which is diagnosed primarily by its longer leaves, but which occurs much farther north.