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THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF THE EAST MALESIAN GENUS HOLLRUNGIA K. SCH. WITHIN THE PASSIFLORACAE
Author(s) -
STEENIS C. G. G. J.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
acta botanica neerlandica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.871
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1438-8677
pISSN - 0044-5983
DOI - 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1966.tb00210.x
Subject(s) - genus , citation , combinatorics , library science , zoology , biology , computer science , mathematics
In 1888 K. Schumann described a new, monotypic genus of the Passifloraceae from Papua, Hollrungia aurantioides K. Sch. (Bot. Jahrb. 9: 212). Its generic distinction was largely ascribed to the peculiar sessile, cap-shaped, undivided stigma (“tellerformige Narbe”) and a 3-angular ovary.Harms, who elaborated Passifloraceae for the first and second editions of the “Pflanzenfamilien”, provided a figure of a section of the flower and a cross-section of the ovary (1.c. 3, 6a: 86, fig. 25 E-F. 1893, and 21: 495, fig. 218 E-F. 1925), maintaining Schumann’s observation that Hollrungia possesses an androgynophore which brings it alongside Passiflora, but differing from that genus by the undivided cap-shaped stigma. This kind of stigma is rare in the Passifloraceae and Harms recorded it in the family only for two other, monotypic African genera Crossostemma and Schlechterina.