Falcatifolium sleumeri
Falcatifolium sleumeri is a low shrub of the genus Falcatifolium in the family of Podocarpus plants ( Podocarpaceae ). The species is known only as a single shrub from one location in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. Since the area was not investigated since the discovery, nothing is known about the actual distribution of the species, therefore it is listed in the IUCN Red List as near threatened.
Description
Falcatifolium sleumeri grows as a low, perhaps even lying down, 20 inches tall, evergreen shrub. The Stammborke is scaly gray and brown. The numerous branches spread or grow upright and form a broad, flat crown, which covers several square meters of soil. The leaves are linear - ovate, bent at the short -stalked base, falcate to almost straight, 0.6 to 1 cm long and 1.8 to 2 millimeters wide. The midrib is raised to the underside of leaves, leaf edges are slightly bent downwards and converge to a pointed equipped with a spike tip. Pollen and seed pin are known.
Distribution and ecology
The species is known only from the Vogelkop peninsula in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. Where it grows at an altitude of about 1920 meters at Mont Nettoti in a dark, mossy forest.
Threats and conservation
Falcatifolium sleumeri was classified by the IUCN Red List as near threatened ( " Near Threatened " ) in 2011. It is only a shrub of the kind known, but the area was not examined since the Fund. Therefore, nothing about the size of the range or stocks is known.
Systematics and etymology
Falcatifolium sleumeri is a species in the genus Falcatifolium, the family of the stone Yews ( Podocarpaceae ) is counted. David John de Laubenfels mentioned the Herbarium Specimens used for the description in 1969 papuanum in the description of Falcatifolium and thus speculated that it could be an own style. However, he described the findings as a separate species in 1988 together with John Silba in the journal Phytologia ( first description ). It differs from the other species of the genus by the growth habit than lower, only 20 centimeters tall shrub and small leaves. However, as is known neither pollen nor seed cones, the taxonomic status remains unclear. No synonyms of the species are known. However, James Eckenwalder assigns the instance found of the genus Falcatifolium papuanum and therefore sees the name Falcatifolium sleumeri only as a synonym of Falcatifolium papuanum.
The genus name derives from Latin Falcatifolium Falcis, "Sickle " and folia, "leaf" from, and thus refers to the sickle- curved blades. The specific epithet sleumeri honors the German botanist Hermann Otto Sleumer (1906-1993) who worked in Leiden on Rijksherbarium.
Use
About a use of the type is not known.