Bopopia Munzinger & J.R.Morel, 2021

Morel, Jérémie, Duminil, Jérôme & Munzinger, Jérôme, 2021, Bopopia, a new monotypic genus of Gesneriaceae (Gesnerioideae, Coronanthereae) from New Caledonia, European Journal of Taxonomy 736, pp. 82-101 : 88

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.736.1253

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4578335

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Bopopia Munzinger & J.R.Morel
status

gen. nov.

Genus Bopopia Munzinger & J.R.Morel View in CoL gen. nov.

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Type species Bopopia parviflora Munzinger & J.R.Morel View in CoL gen. et sp. nov., by present designation.

Diagnosis

Bopopia gen. nov. differs from other genera of Coronanthereae in its inflorescence: an axillary indeterminate thyrse with ultimate axes being pair-flowered cymes and inferior axes being indeterminate thyrses with three to five levels of branching (vs 3-flowered cymes or solitary flowers); it differs from Depanthus in floral symmetry (zygomorphy vs actinomorphy), stamen number (4 vs 5); from Negria in inserted (vs exserted) stamens, and connate (vs free) anthers; from Lenbrassia in bilobed (vs spatulate) stigma.

Etymology

The genus is named after the land and people of Bopope (Pŵpŵp), in the vicinity of Mt Katalupaik.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Gesneriaceae

SubFamily

Gesnerioideae

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