SCINDAPSUS SALOMONIENSIS

PROTOLOGUE: Scindapsus salomoniensis , published in Das Pflanzenreich IV.23B (Heft 37): 70 (1908). The protologue is reproduced below.

DISTRIBUTION: Solomon Is.: Solomon Islands.

DISTRIBUTION NOTE: Papua New Guinea: Bougainville.

SPECIES DESCRIPTION:

Translated from protologue: Petiole stout, about 20 cm long, furnished up to the base of the geniculum, which is 1.8–2 cm long, with a leathery, persistent sheath nearly 1 cm wide on each side below and slightly narrower above; blade leathery, obliquely oblong, apex subacute or rounded, base obtuse and not emarginate, slightly unequal-sided with one side about 5–7 mm narrower, 30–35 cm long and 14–16 cm wide at the middle, with 15–17 primary lateral veins on each side leaving the rather stout midrib, which is slightly impressed above and strongly prominent beneath, at an angle of about 75° and ascending in a slight arc toward the margin, clearly thicker than the parallel secondary and tertiary lateral veins, which are joined to one another in a network.²

INFLORESCENCE:

Translated from protologue: Peduncle and spathe unknown.²

ECOLOGY:

Found in dense coastal forest on Bougainville.²

ETYMOLOGY:

Of the Solomon Islands; the type was collected on Bougainville during the voyage of the Gazelle.²

NOTES:

1. Described from leaves alone, collected by Naumann on Bougainville during the voyage of the Gazelle in August 1875; the inflorescence remains undescribed.²

REFERENCES:

1. Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew — Scindapsus salomoniensis

2. Das Pflanzenreich IV.23B (Heft 37): 70 (1908) — protologue.