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Issue: Vol. 455 No. 3: 12 August 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-08-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.455.3.4
Page range: 214–220
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Studies on the Homalomeneae (Araceae) of Borneo XXVI—A new and highly ornamental species of Homalomena [Punctulata Clade] from Triassic-Jurassic karst formations in SW Sarawak

Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia. Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA, USA. Department Biologie I, Systematische Botanik und Mykologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.
Department Biologie I, Systematische Botanik und Mykologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.
Araceae Homalomena Punctulata Clade Borneo Sarawak Karst Monocots

Abstract

Homalomena benedikii is described and illustrated as a new species from Serian Division, SW Sarawak, where it is restricted to forested Triassic-Jurassic karst formations, and compared with the two most similar described species H. cowleyae and H. imitator, from shales in NE Sarawak and Brunei, and C Sarawak, respectively.