DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15140058
title: Table 1 in Notes on cauliflory, sexual dimorphism and biogeography in Drypetes (Putranjivaceae, Malpighiales) and a taxonomic treatment for D. gabonensis and two new cauliflorous threatened species from Central Africa, D. aphanes sp. nov. and D. cauta sp. nov.

description: Table 1 (continued on next page). Summary of diagnostic characters useful to distinguish Drypetes gabonensis Pierre ex Hutch., D. aphanes Quintanar, D.J.Harris & Barberá sp. nov. and D. cauta D.J.Harris, Barberá & Quintanar sp. nov.
D. gabonensisD. aphanesD. cautaVegetative charactersBud scale (mm)2‒2.4 × ca 0.51.2‒1.4 × 1‒1.61.3‒1.7 × 2.1‒2.7Bud scale shapenarrowly triangularwidely ovateovate-suborbicularBud scale indumentumdensely puberulous, not ciliateglabrous, not ciliateglabrous, minutely ciliateIndumentum of young branchletsglabrescentglabrousglabrousPetiole length (mm)(4.2‒)7.7‒9.6(‒13.1)(5.3‒)7‒8.1(‒8.6)(3.4‒)5.8‒7(‒7.5)Petiole surfacesmooth, coarsely wrinkled and bullate when oldwrinkled, drying light- colouredwrinkled, drying dark- coloured or blackishLeaf blade basemarkedly asymmetrical, rounded on one side, less often obliqueobliqueobliqueLeaf blade marginsubentire to shallowly and obscurely crenulate- serrulateobscurely and shallowly crenulate-serrulateobscurely and shallowly crenulate-serrulateLeaf blade uppersideglossylustrelesslustrelessAngles of first order lateral veins to midrib58‒74º(54‒)58‒81º45‒60ºFirst order lateral veins loopingnear the marginwell within the marginnear the marginSecond order venationslightly raised above and beneathhardly raised above and very slightly beneathslightly raised above and beneathMales, reproductive charactersInflorescence category (disposition)III–IVIIPedicel, length and diameter (mm)(2.1‒)4‒5.3(‒6.6) × 0.1‒0.23.8‒4.3(‒5.2) × (0.6‒)0.9‒1.2(‒1.4)3.6‒7.7 × 0.3‒0.8Sepals, number(3‒)4(‒5)55Sepals, shapeovate to slightly oblong, slightly cucullate towards the apexwidely ovate to slightly obovate, slightly cucullatewidely ovate, cucullateSepals, indumentum of outer surfaceminutely and sparingly pubescentglabrousglabrousSepals, dimensions (mm)(1.2‒)1.9‒2.3(‒2.9) × (0.3‒)1‒1.8(3.9‒)4.4‒5.2(‒5.6) × (4.3‒)4.6‒5.2(‒6.5)4.2‒5.3 × 4.1‒4.7Disk, diameter (mm)(0.3‒)0.5‒0.8(‒1.2)3.4‒4.63.1‒3.3Disk, characteristicsconcave, cupular, thin, smooth, margin slightly lobed, glabrous, with a central conical projection to 0.1 mm, often absentconvex, very rugoseconvex, strongly plicateStamens, arrangementone-whorled, surrounding the disk and hardly entangled by the disk marginal lobesapparently one-whorled surrounding the disk, more or less entangled by the disk marginal lobesobscurely whorled, mainly surrounding the disk, entangled by the disk marginal lobes, some penetratingStamens, number3(11‒)14‒1516‒17Females, reproductive charactersInflorescence category (disposition)II–IIII (–II)IPedicel, length and diameter (mm)1.9‒3.2 × 0.9‒12.9‒3.2 × 1‒1.17.5‒10.9 × 0.7‒0.9Sepals, dimensions (mm)2.9‒3.9 × 2.5‒3.13.4‒4.1 × 3.9‒44.1‒4.7 × 4.2‒4.8Disk, diameter (mm)2.8‒3.33‒3.24.1‒4.3Style, length (mm)0.6‒1.1to 0.1 mm0.4‒0.6Style, branching3(‒4)-branchedunbranchedunbranchedStigma, shapespathulate to obdeltoidobdeltoidobdeltoidFruiting pedicel, length (mm)2‒4.6(‒8) × 2.3‒2.5(6.7‒)9‒12.6(‒13) × 1.3‒2.3(‒2.9)11.3‒12.2 × 0.8‒1.1Fruit, length and diameter (mm)19‒20.7(‒30) × 20‒23.4(‒30)(18.2‒)18.8‒22.6 × (15.7‒)18‒23.1(‒23.4)15‒16.8 × 12.1‒15.4Fruit, shapesubglobosesubglobosewidely ellipticFruit, surfaceunevenuneveneven
description: Published as part of Quintanar, Alejandro, Harris, David J., Nguema, Diosdado & Barberá, Patricia, 2023, Notes on cauliflory, sexual dimorphism and biogeography in Drypetes (Putranjivaceae, Malpighiales) and a taxonomic treatment for D. gabonensis and two new cauliflorous threatened species from Central Africa, D. aphanes sp. nov. and D. cauta sp. nov., pp. 178-179 in European Journal of Taxonomy 888 on page 178, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2241, http://zenodo.org/record/8269439