Lepidocupania glabra (Adema) Buerki, Callm., Munzinger & Lowry, 2020

Buerki, Sven, Munzinger, Jérôme, Lowry Ii, Porter P. & Callmander, Martin W., 2020, Two new genera of Sapindaceae (Cupanieae) from the southern Pacific: Lepidocupania and Neoarytera, Candollea 75 (2), pp. 269-284 : 274-276

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15553/c2020v752a9
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D1503E49-FFBA-FFD4-FC88-F967FF77FD75
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Lepidocupania glabra (Adema) Buerki, Callm., Munzinger & Lowry
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Lepidocupania glabra (Adema) Buerki, Callm., Munzinger & Lowry , comb. nov.

 Cupaniopsis glabra Adema in Leiden Bot. Ser. 15: 113. 1991.

Holotypus: NEW CALEDONIA. Prov. Sud: Basse Tontouta , rive gauche, terrain serpentineux, 50 m, 10.II.1962 ,

[ A: Callmander et 788; B: Munzinger 379; C: Munzinger 7700; D: Munzinger 7395; E: Munzinger 7404; F: Hequet 3525]

[Photos: A–B, D– E: P. Lowry; C: J. Munzinger; F: V. Hequet]

MacKee 40234 (L [L0013372]!; iso-: NOU [NOU006523]!, P [P05213382]!).

Distribution and ecology. – Lepidocupania glabra is endemic to the Tontouta River valley (Grande Terre). It is found in maquis and continuous tall maquis (“maquis paraforestier”, see MCCOY et al., 1999 for details) dominated by Gymnostoma chamaecyparis (J. Poiss.) L.A.S. Johnson ( Casuarinaceae ) on ultramafic substrate, primarily alluvium, between 20 and 400 m ( ADEMA, 1991; D'ANGELO, 2017).

Notes. – This species has been assigned an IUCN risk of extinction status of “Critically Endangered” [CR] based on its narrow distribution and reduction in population size ( IUCN, 2020).