Key to the Species of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands based on Pistillate material

 

1a.

Leaves with 1–2 pairs of marginal glands at the base (Fig. 22B), up to 2.2 cm long. Pistillate plants unknown

52. Antidesma vaccinioides

1b.

Leaves eglandular, up to 30 cm long

2

2a.

Leaf apex retuse, rounded or obtuse. Fruits with terminal style

3

2b.

Leaf apex acute or acuminate. Fruits with lateral to terminal style

4

3a.

Leaves usually oblong, base rounded to cordate, rarely acute, (2–)3–4.5(–9) cm wide. Leaves: petioles 4–17 by 0.7–1 mm. Stipules 3–6 mm long. Infructescences 4–7 cm long, usually much-branched, consisting of (1–)10–20 branches. Fruits pilose, 3–4(–5) by 2.5–3(–3.5) mm

21. Antidesma ghaesembilla

3b.

Leaves spathulate, base cuneate-acute, (0.7–)1–2.5(–3.5) cm wide. Leaves: petioles 1.5–4 by 0.5–0.7 mm. Stipules 1–3 mm long. Infructescences 1.5–3 cm long, simple. Fruits glabrous, 4–6 by 3–5 mm

47. Antidesma spatulifolium

4a.

Midvein raised adaxially. Sepals free or nearly so; disc glabrous. Fruits and ovaries glabrous, with terminal style

10. Antidesma contractum

4b.

Midvein impressed to flat adaxially. Sepals fused to free; disc hairy or glabrous. Fruits and ovaries glabrous or hairy, with lateral to terminal style

5

5a.

Stipules 3–4mm wide. Fruits, ovaries and disc pilose

46b. Antidesma riparium subsp. ramosum

5b.

Stipules up to 3 mm wide. Fruits, ovaries and disc glabrous or hairy

6

6a.

Calyx 1–1.5 by c. 1.5 mm, sepals fused for 2/3–3/4 of their length. Fruits 5–11 mm long, always laterally compressed. Inflorescences (4–)8–17 cm long, infructescences 10–17 cm long; disc glabrous. Leaves glabrous or nearly so, without domatia. Often cultivated

5. Antidesma bunius

6b.

Calyx 0.4–1 by 0.4–1.5 mm, sepals free or fused. Fruits 2–5 mm long and laterally compressed, or up to 8 mm long and terete. Inflorescences 1.5–10 cm long, infructescences 2–20 cm long; disc hairy or glabrous. Leaves glabrous or hairy, with or without domatia

7

7a.

Fruits with a terminal (Fig. 3G) to subterminal (Fig. 3J) style

8

7b.

Fruits with a distinctly lateral style (Fig. 3L)

14

8a.

Leaves: petioles 15–45 by 1.5–2 mm. Leaves 10–30 cm long. Fruits 2–3 mm long

41. Antidesma petiolatum

8b.

Leaves: petioles 2–18 by 0.5–2 mm. Leaves 2–30 cm long. Fruits 2.5–15 mm long

9

9a.

Sepals free or nearly so

10

9b.

Sepals fused for half or more of their length

11

10a.

Fruits terete, (3–)4–8(–8) mm long; fruiting pedicels 1–4 mm long. Sepals often glandular-fimbriate. Leaves: petioles 1–2 mm wide. Leaves 2–6.6 times as long as wide, base acute to obtuse, rarely rounded. Inflorescences 4–10 cm long; infructescences 6–20 cm long, simple or consisting of up to 5 branches. Sepals free, to fused to half of their length, glabrous to pilose outside. Ovaries and fruits usually glabrous

33. Antidesma montanum

10b.

Fruits laterally compressed, 3–4(–5) mm long; fruiting pedicels 0–2 mm long. Sepals never glandular-fimbriate. Leaves: petioles 0.7–1 mm wide. Leaves 1–2.25 times as long as wide, base rounded to cordate, rarely acute. Inflorescences 2–3 cm long; infructescences 3–7 cm long, consisting of (1–)10–20 branches. Sepals free, pubescent outside. Ovaries pubescent, fruits pilose

(21. Antidesma ghaesembilla)

11a.

Infructescences 6–20 cm long; fruiting pedicels 1–4 mm long. Fruits (3–)4–6(–8) by 2.5–4(–6) mm. Leaves without domatia in the axils between the midvein and secondary veins abaxially (Fig. 2B). Sepals often glandular-fimbriate. Leaves: petioles 1–2 mm wide

(33. Antidesma montanum)

11b.

Infructescences 2–6 cm long; fruiting pedicels 0–1(–2.5) mm long. Fruits 2.5–4(–6) by 2–3 mm. Leaves with hairtuft domatia. Sepals never glandular-fimbriate. Leaves: petioles 0.5–1.5 mm wide

12

12a.

Leaf base acute-cuneate. Leaves usually dull, tertiary venation well-differentiated from finer venation, not tessellated (Fig. 9A). Leaves: petioles 2–7 mm long. Stipules 1–3 by 0.2–0.7(–1) mm. Inflorescences 1.5–3 cm long; disc with long hairs (about as long as the disc) at the margin

45. Antidesma rhynchophyllum

12b.

Leaf base rounded to cordate, rarely obtuse. Leaves usually shiny, tertiary venation hardly differentiated from finer venation, giving it a tessellated appearance (Fig. 9D). Leaves: petioles (5–)7–18 mm long. Stipules c. 10 by 1.5 mm. Inflorescences 4–7 cm long; disc glabrous or with short hairs (much shorter than the disc) outside and at the margin

13

13a.

Leaves glabrous, or puberulous only along the midvein adaxially and along the major veins abaxially

35a. Antidesma myriocarpum var. myriocarpum

13b.

Leaves hairy all over abaxially

35b. Antidesma myriocarpum var. puberulum

14a.

Leaves: petioles 1–3 by 0.5–1 mm. Leaves 2.2–8.5 by 1–3 cm, usually ovate, chartaceous, without domatia in the axils between the midvein and secondary veins abaxially (Fig. 2B). Fruits 4–6 mm across

15

14b.

Leaves: petioles (2–)3–30 by 1–3 mm. Leaves 4–30 by 2–13.5 cm, usually elliptic, chartaceous to coriaceous, with or without domatia. Fruits 2.5–15 mm across

16

15a.

Indumentum appressed or lacking

9. Antidesma concinnum

15b.

Indumentum spreading

25. Antidesma jucundum

16a.

Exocarp in dry material loosely enfolding the endocarp, thick, neither areolate nor reticulate, without ridges or keels, brittle, minutely scaly. Fruits globose, not compressed. Infructescences simple, more rarely consisting of of 2–4branches

2. Antidesma baccatum

16b.

Exocarp in dry material closely enfolding the endocarp, thin, reticulate, areolate or wrinkled (fleshy when fresh), not brittle or scaly. Fruits laterally compressed. Infructescences simple or branched

17

17a.

Leaves: petioles 3–6 by 1–1.5 mm. Leaves 5.5–10 by 2.5–5 cm. Inflorescences, infructescences and pedicels slender; fruiting pedicels 3–4 mm long

8. Antidesma chalaranthum

17b.

Leaves: petioles (2–)6–30 by 1–3 mm. Leaves (5–)7–30 by (2–)3–13.5 cm. Inflorescences, infructescences and pedicels not particularly slender. Fruiting pedicels 0.2–3(–5) mm long

18

18a.

Leaves glabrous, or hairy only along the midvein adaxially and along the major veins abaxially. Indumentum lacking or whitish to pale yellow. Fruits glabrous to sparsely pilose. Occasionally cultivated

18a. Antidesma excavatum var. excavatum

18b.

Leaves hairy all over abaxially. Indumentum pale yellow to ferrugineous. Fruits pilose

19

19a.

Fruits (3–)5–8 by (3–)5–6 mm; calyx bowl-shaped to cupular, sepals fused for 2/3–4/5 of their length; disc at anthesis longer than or as long as the calyx; fruiting pedicels 0.3–5mm long

18b. Antidesma excavatum var. indutum

19b.

Fruits 2.5–3.5 by 2–3 mm; calyx campanulate with a truncate base, sepals fused for 2/3–4/5 of their length; disc at anthesis shorter than the calyx; fruiting pedicels 0.2–1.5 mm long

19. Antidesma ferrugineum