A new species of Freycinetia Gaudich. (Pandanaceae; Freycinetoideae) with pseudopetioliform leaves from Arfak Mountains, Papua, Indonesia

Abstract

A new species of Freycinetia Gaudich. (Pandanaceae; Freycinetoidea) with obvious pseudopetiolate basal leaf from Mount Tombrok in the vicinity of the Arfak Mountains, West Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, is newly described as Freycinetia pseudopetiolata A.P.Keim, K.Kartawinata & W.Sujarwo. The possession of the pseudopetiolate basal leaf form places this new species in the section Pseudopetiolosae; thus marking the first presence of the section for mainland New Guinea.