Field Ashley Raymond
Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Mt Cooth-tha Road, Toowong, Queensland 4066, Australia Queensland Herbarium Toowong Australia.
Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, P.O. Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland 4878, Australia James Cook University Cairns Australia.
PhytoKeys. 2018 Oct 8(109):53-66. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.109.29359. eCollection 2018.
A.R.Field is described as a new species for plants endemic to the islands of Vanuatu that were previously identified with (Blume) Ching. The Vanuatuan species differs from the widespread Asian-Oceanian species in several characteristics, most notably its acutely divergent leaf arrangement and thicker less branched fertile spikes. is here re-circumscribed as plants occurring in Asia and into Oceania as far east as the Solomon Islands, being replaced eastwards by . In addition, new nomenclatural combinations are made for , a species from Polynesia and for , a species from Malesia.
A.R.Field被描述为瓦努阿图群岛特有的一种新植物物种,此前它被鉴定为(Blume)Ching。这种瓦努阿图物种在几个特征上与分布广泛的亚洲 - 大洋洲物种不同,最显著的是其叶片排列急剧分歧以及较厚且分枝较少的可育穗状花序。在这里,(原物种)被重新界定为分布于亚洲以及东至所罗门群岛的大洋洲地区的植物,在东部被(新物种)取代。此外,还为来自波利尼西亚的一个物种和来自马来群岛的一个物种进行了新的命名组合。