Garcinia section Dicrananthera Pierre, Fl. Forest. Cochinch. 1, Fasc. 6, 8 (1883).

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11. Garcinia section Dicrananthera Pierre, Fl. Forest. Cochinch. 1, Fasc. 6, 8 (1883).

Type.

Garcinia thorelii Pierre, Fl. Forest . Cochinch. t. 62 .

Distinguishing sectional characters.

Leaves with prominent stipuliform structures. Staminate flowers with a pistillode, stamens united into an annular mass encircling and attached to the pistillode, anthers two-thecous. Ovaries one to two locular, stigmas unlobed and smooth. Fruits with smooth walls. Inflorescences axillary or terminal with three to many flowers. Indomalaya.

Garcinia nujiangensis C.Y.Wu & Y.H.Li occupies an isolated position in the phylogeny, in a polytomy with clades 4 and 9. We resurrect Pierre’s Garcinia Dicrananthera for a morphologically coherent group of species that was designated the " Garcinia stipulata " group in Sweeney et al. (2022). Jones (1980) treated this group, using Pierre’s sectional name, as a subsection of Discostigma ( Garcinia section Discostigma subsection Dicrananthera (Pierre) S.W.Jones nom. inval. Art. 30.9, Turland et al. 2018). Species in this group collectively range from eastern India and Bhutan, east to southwest China, and south to Myanmar and Laos. In addition to G. nujiangensis , the section contains G. yaatapsap K. Armstr. & P.W. Sweeney, G. paucinervis Chun & F.C.How (1956: 12), G. stipulata T.Anderson, and G. thorelii Pierre (1882: t. [plate] 62). These species all share prominent stipuliform structures (rare in Clusiaceae , Stevens 2007), leaves with prominent, widely spaced, curved secondary veins and percurrent tertiaries, staminate flowers with numerous stamens united into an annular mass encircling and attached to the pistillode (in G. paucinervis and G. nujiangensis the stamens are described as being in four bundles ( Chun and How 1956; Li 1981)), and ellipsoid fruits with a discoid stigma and one to two seeds. Future molecular phylogenetic analyses will confirm if species of the ' Garcinia stipulata ' group are monophyletic and whether they will remain a distinct clade separate from clade 4/section Garcinia Discostigma .

Species.

Garcinia nujiangensis C.Y.Wu & Y.H.Li; G. paucinervis Chun & F.C.How; G. stipulata T.Anderson; G. thorelii Pierre; G. yaatapsap K.Armstr. & P.W.Sweeney.