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Type: Article
Published: 2020-02-17
Page range: 94–100
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Two new Noronhia species (Oleaceae) from the Guineo-Congolian forests in Africa

Botanic Garden Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium.
conservation fruit colour taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

A recent re-evaluation of the Noronhia species from the Guineo-Congolian forests resulted in a much more restricted circumscription of N. mannii. A part of the specimens excluded from N. mannii represents the two new species described here. Both new species, N. silvatica from Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana, and N. cameroonensis from Cameroon, have red fruits, while N. mannii has dark purplish fruits. Both new species are small trees or shrubs found in the undergrowth of evergreen forest.