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Volume 49, No. 01, Month JANUARY, Year 2021, Pages 66 - 72


Two new species of ilex (aquifoliaceae) from thailand

Kanchana Pruesapan, Peter C. van Welzen


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Two new species of Aquifoliaceae are reported for Thailand. Ilex depressifructu is newly recorded from Umphang District, Tak Province (leaf blades ovate, ovate-oblong or oblong, base obtuse; infructescences solitary dichasia; fruits depressed globose with capitate stigma; pyrenes 5, shallowly-5-sulcate, 6-striate) and Ilex phanganensis (like I. umbellulata, but glabrous, smaller leaves, less veins, diplothyrsoid inflorescences with mainly alternate branches, less pyrenes), is newly recorded from Ko Phagnan Islands, Surat Thani Province. The descriptions and illustrations of the taxa are presented.


Keywords

Depressed globose fruit, dichasial infructescences, diplothyrsoid inflorescences, endemic, Surat Thani, Tak.



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