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Issue: Vol. 159 No. 4: 18 February 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-02-18
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.159.4.5
Page range: 287–290
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 25

Salacca acehensis (Arecaceae), A New Species from Sumatra, Indonesia

1Plant Biology Graduate Program, Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University, Darmaga Campus, Bogor 16680, Indonesia. 2Department of Biology, Mathematics and Sciences Faculty, Syiah Kuala University, Jl. Syech Abdur Rauf, Darussalam Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University, Darmaga Campus, Bogor 16680, Indonesia.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University, Darmaga Campus, Bogor 16680, Indonesia.
Department Agronomy and Horticulture, Bogor Agricultural University, Darmaga Campus, Bogor 16680, Indonesia
Herbarium Bogoriense, Botany Division, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jl Raya Jakarta Bogor Km 47, Cibinong, Indonesia.
Science Museums, Aarhus University, Building 1137 Universitetsparken, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Aceh dwarf salac section Salacca

Abstract

A new species of Salacca sect. Salacca from Sumatra is described and illustrated. It is characterized by dwarf habit, with leaves to 2.5 m long; erect and slender staminate inflorescences to 7 cm long; and small infructescences, to 10 cm long, with up to 3 branches The most similar species, S. rupicola from Borneo, is different in having the apical leaflets composed ca. 8 united segments versus 2 in the new species, and in having larger inflorescences, the staminate to 15 cm long and the pistillate to 40 cm long.