Ngoc Nguyen Van, Dung Luong Van, Tagane Shuichiro, Binh Hoang Thi, Son Hoang Thanh, Trung Vo Quang, Yahara Tetsukazu
Center for Asian Conservation Ecology, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan; Department of Biology, Dalat University, 01 - Phu Dong Thien Vuong, Dalat, Vietnam.
Department of Biology, Dalat University, 01 - Phu Dong Thien Vuong, Dalat, Vietnam.
PhytoKeys. 2016 Aug 18(69):23-30. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.69.9821. eCollection 2016.
Ngoc & L. V. Dung, a new species from the Central highland of Vietnam, is described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically similar to (M. R. Hend.) Barnett or (Korth.) A. Camus in having completely entire leaf margin, solitary cupule, long stalks of fruits, deeply cup-shaped or turbinate cupules, with a number of horizontal filiform lines. The species differs in its nut enclosure ca. 1/2 - 2/3 of the nut, adaxially glabrous leaf blades, secondary veins 11-12 pairs and faintly to very faintly visible hairs on the outside of the cupule. A table showing the morphological comparison of with and is also provided.