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67621F13FFD5F50F1E6D3B93FACD41E9.text	67621F13FFD5F50F1E6D3B93FACD41E9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia N. Snow & Guymer	<div><p>Genus Gossia N. Snow &amp; Guymer</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — Gossia is widespread across Grande Terre in New Caledonia and occasional on adjoining islands, but so far is unreported for the Loyalty Islands; mostly in maquis or more mesic forests and species rarely occurring in dense or extensive populations; near sea level to 1500 m.</p><p>GENERIC DESCRIPTION OF GOSSIA</p><p>Plants</p><p>Shrubs to large trees, (0.2-) 0.5- 18 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete, compressed, or rarely 4-angled.</p><p>Colleters</p><p>Absent to obscure, reddish and hair-like if present.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>2(-3-4) per node, pedicellate or sometimes sessile, venation brochidodromous, thinly to thickly coriaceous, blades flat or bullate.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>Axillary, terminal or ramiflorus, of monads, racemes, or panicles, solitary, paired, or fascicled; extrafloral bracts absent, scale-like or sometimes leafy.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>2, sometimes early caducous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>Campanulate, cupulate, obconic, or urceolate, not prolonged beyond ovary apex, smooth or sometimes ribbed or rugose; ovary apex glabrous to hairy.</p><p>Flowers</p><p>4-5(-8)-merous.</p><p>Locules</p><p>(1-)2(-3), placentation axile (or basal in G. angustifolia sp. nov.). Stamens numerous; filaments dorsifixed or subdorsifixed. Stigma apex terete, narrow to slightly globular.</p><p>Fruit</p><p>Baccate, green (immature) to yellow-orange or red but usually purplish-black at maturity.</p><p>Seeds</p><p>1-4(-12), testa hard, irregularly rounded and typically somewhat compressed with some angular edges; embryo coiled or less commonly C-shaped. Chromosome numbers unknown.</p><p>ARTIFICIAL KEY TO THE NEW CALEDONIAN SPECIES OF GOSSIA N. SNOW &amp; GUYMER</p><p>1. Branchlets 4-angled (check youngest material) ............................... G. diversifolia (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>— Branchlets rounded or compressed .............................................................................................................. 2</p><p>2. Leaf blades blades broadly linear to very narrowly elliptic, apex retuse ......................................................... 3</p><p>— Leaf blades broader than narrowly elliptic, apex obtuse to acute (rarely retuse) ............................................ 5</p><p>3. Leaves 4 per node, blades broadly linear to very narrowly obovate ............... G. virotii (Guillaumin) N. Snow</p><p>— Leaves 2(-3) per node, blades narrowly elliptic to broader ........................................................................... 4</p><p>4. Leaves thickly coriaceous, margins strongly revolute; internodes at branch tips mostly less than 5 mm long ... .............................................................................. G. conspicua (Vieill. ex Guillaumin) N. Snow, comb. nov.</p><p>— Leaves coriaceous, margins flat to only slightly revolute; internodes at branch tips mostly greater than 5 mm long ............................................................................................. G. alaternoides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>5. Flowers all or mostly 4-merous .................................................................................................................... 6</p><p>— Flowers all or mostly 5-merous .................................................................................................................. 10 6. Leaf blades (8.5-) 12 cm or longer ......................... G. aphthosa (Vieill. ex Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow (in part)</p><p>— Leaf blades less than 9.5 cm ........................................................................................................................ 7</p><p>7. Leaf blades mostly 6-9.5 cm ........................................................................ G. angustifolia N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>— Leaf blades mostly &lt;6 cm ........................................................................................................................... 8</p><p>8. Leaf base narrowly cuneate; petiole sometimes drying nearly black ............ G. nigripes (Guillaumin) N. Snow</p><p>— Leaf base rounded to cordate and conduplicate; petiole drying brownish .................................................... 9</p><p>9. Leaf blade conduplicate only at base, surface flat to slightly undulate; apex of inflorescence rigid, not nodding ..................................................................................................................... G. bourailensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>— Leaf blade conduplicate up to half or more of its length, surface moderately to strongly undulate; apex of inflorescence sometimes nodding ...................................................................... G. conduplicata N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>10. Petals&gt; 9 mm ........................................................................................................................................... 11</p><p>— Petals &lt;9 mm (petals unknown in G. conduplicata N. Snow, sp. nov., which probably keys here) ............. 13</p><p>11. Base of leaf cordate to rounded; petiole 1.5-2 mm .......................................................................................... ........................................................ G. aphthosa subsp. longipedunculata N. Snow &amp; Munzinger, subsp. nov. — Base of leaf round to cuneate, petiole 2-30 mm ......................................................................................... 12</p><p>12 Calyx lobes sparsely sericeous above; petals sericeous-tomentose below (sometimes densely so); hypanthium surface smooth; leafy bracts along inflorescence axis prominent (but typically soon caducous) ........................................ ......................................................................................................... G. clusioides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>— Calyx lobes sparsely ciliate only on margins; petals minutely ciliate apically but otherwise glabrous below; hypanthium surface sometimes slightly ribbed; leafy bracts along inflorescence mostly absent ........................... ............................................................................................................. G. colnettiana (Guillaumin) N. Snow</p><p>13. Base of leaf blade moderately to strongly conduplicate, blade surface undulate ............................................... .................................................................................................................... G. conduplicata N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>— Base of leaf blade more or less flat (slightly conduplicate in G. katepahiensis N. Snow, sp. nov.), surface mostly flat ............................................................................................................................................................ 14</p><p>14. Leaf blades mostly 10 cm or longer .......................................................................................................... 15</p><p>— Leaf blades mostly 10 cm or shorter ......................................................................................................... 16</p><p>15. Base of petiole sometimes encircled by a corky ring; base of leaf blade cordate to rounded, sometimes clasping; lowermost inflorescences often ramiflorous below leaves; bracteoles very narrowly elliptic to very narrowly obovate ...................................................... G. aphthosa (Vieill. ex Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow (in part)</p><p>— Base of petiole lacking corky outgrowths; base of leaf rounded or cuneate, never clasping; lowermost inflorescences axillary; bracteoles narrowly ovate to ovate............................... G. clusioides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>16. Leaf surface bullate (sometimes strongly) or margins strongly and irregularly undulate; bark of second and third year growth often dark and breaking in irregular rectangle patches ............................................................ 17</p><p>— Leaf surface smooth or margins to flat or somewhat undulate; bark of second and third year growth mostly somewhat smooth, grayish-brown (or dark and flaking in G. kuakuensis or G. pancheri (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow) .......... 18</p><p>17. Leaf margins more or less flat; lowermost inflorescences axillary, extrafloral bracts of inflorescence leafy; hypanthium sparsely sericeous in flower; petals sericeous to tomentose below .......................................................... ........................................................................................... G. clusioides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow (in part)</p><p>— Leaf margins irregularly undulate; lowermost inflorescences on naked branches below leaves, extrafloral bracts absent or scale-like; hypanthium sparsely to moderately sericeous in flower; petals ciliate ............................... ......................................................................................................................... G. ramiflora N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>18. Leaf apex mostly retuse (rarely obtuse) ...................................................................................................... 19</p><p>— Leaf apex obtuse to acute ........................................................................................................................... 20</p><p>19. Hypanthium c. 3 mm; bracteoles and calyx lobes sparsely to densely sericeous; leaves 2 per node ................... .......................................................................................................... G. pancheri (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>— Hypanthium 2.0- 2.5 mm; bracteoles and calyx lobes hairy; leaves 2 or 3 per node ......................................... ...................................................................................................... G. alaternoides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>20. Calyx lobes drying mostly whitish or cream-colored (“petaloid” of some authors) ..................................... 21</p><p>— Calyx lobes drying mostly greenish ............................................................................................................ 22 21. Leaves mostly over 8 cm long, apex acute; adaxial leaf surface somewhat glossy, secondary veins prominently raised; margin somewhat undulate ................................................................. G. kaalaensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>— Leaves mostly shorter than 7 cm long, apex obtuse; adaxial leaf surface matte, secondary veins flush; margin slightly revolute ...................................................................................... G. ouazangouensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>22. Leaf base cordate or round ........................................................................................................................ 23</p><p>— Leaf base cuneate to narrowly cuneate ....................................................................................................... 27</p><p>23. Hypanthium sparsely to moderately sericeous ........................................................................................... 24</p><p>— Hypanthium glabrous or very sparsely sericeous near apex ........................................................................ 25</p><p>24. Extrafloral bracts of inflorescence leafy; bracteoles c. 3.5 mm long; petals 8-13 mm ....................................... .............................................................................................................. G. colnettiana (Guillaumin) N. Snow</p><p>— Extrafloral bracts of inflorescence leafy; bracteoles scale-like, 0.5-1.4 mm long; petals (4-) 5-7 mm ............. ........................................................................................................ G. vieillardii (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>25. Older branchlets with dark, rectangular flakes; extrafloral bracts of inflorescence leaf-like .............................. .................................................................................................................... G. kuakuensis (Baker f.) N. Snow — Older branchlets smooth; extrafloral bracts of inflorescence lacking or small and scale-like ........................ 26</p><p>26. Petioles 1-3 mm, rounded above; leaf apex broadly acute to obtuse; ovary apex hairy ..................................... ..................................................................................................................... G. bourailensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>— Petioles 2.5-4 mm, sometimes slightly sulcate; leaf apex broadly rounded or slightly retuse; ovary apex glabrous........................................................................................................... G. katepahiensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>27. Secondary veins on adaxial leaf (in sicco) surface prominently raised ......................................................... 28</p><p>— Secondary veins on adaxial leaf surface (in sicco) flush or only slightly raised ............................................ 29</p><p>28. Leaves elliptic, apex rounded (occasionally retuse); hypanthium sericeous, oil glands of uniform size; ovary apex densely tomentose ............................................................................. G. pancheri (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>— Leaves narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate or somewhat elliptic, apex acute; hypanthium mostly glabrous, oil glands large and small; ovary apex glabrous .................................................... G. kaalaensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>29. Oil glands on abaxial leaf surface absent to sparse; style villous lower ½-¾, sometimes densely so; base of fruit</p><p>rounded or often prominently tapered ............................................ G. vieillardii (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow — Oil glands on abaxial leaf surface dense; style sericeous to tomentose; base of fruit rounded ...................... 30</p><p>30. Hypanthium sericeous ............................................................................. G. mandjeliaensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>— Hypanthium glabrous ............................................................................................................................... 31</p><p>31. Petioles reddish (drying dark brown); mature leaves mostly 5.0 cm or longer, surface flat, margin slightly recurved; Île des Pins ............................................................................................ G. ngaensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>— Petioles dark red (drying nearly black); mature leaves mostly 4.5 cm or shorter, blades undulate, margin flat; Massif du Panié ......................................................................................... G. nigripes (Guillaumin) N. Snow</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFD5F50F1E6D3B93FACD41E9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFD7F5001FA83AF1FE91438E.text	67621F13FFD7F5001FA83AF1FE91438E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia alaternoides (Brongn. & Gris) N. Snow	<div><p>Gossia alaternoides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>(Figs 1-3)</p><p>Austrobaileya 8 (2): 180 (2010). — Myrtus alaternoides Brongn. &amp; Gris, Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 12: 177 (1865). — Austromyrtus alaternoides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 504 (1941).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Montagnes de Balade, 1855-1860, E. Vieillard 495 (holo-, P [P00602575]).</p><p>Gossia alaternoides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow var. pulchrifolius (Guillaumin) N. Snow, Austrobaileya 8: 180 (2010). — Myrtus pulchrifolius Guillaumin, Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, sér. B., Botanique 8: 144 (1959); Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, sér. B., Botanique 8: 289 (1962) (as M. pulchrefolius).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov., au-dessus du campement de Bernier, Montagne des Sources, 3.X.1951, Hürlimann 3021 (holo-, P[P00751827]; iso-, A[A00255461], NY, US, Z [Z- 000050850]) .</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Possibly from a superficial resemblance to the Mediterranean species Rhamnus alaternus L., but its exact application here uncertain.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Across much of Grande Terre (Fig. 3) but most common in the South Province; in maquis including over ultramafics, 100-700 m. Flowering November through May; in fruit yearround but evidently peaking in April and May.</p><p>SPECIMENS EXAMINED.— New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov., au-dessus d’Ouroué à l’embouchure du Dotio, I.1872, Balansa 3398 (P[P00459516]); Goro-Nickel, relevé 37-38, 20. VI.2002, Dagostini 525 (NOU) ; Fetscherin s.n., 1910, entre Thio et Houaïlou (P[P00459523]) ; Route de Houaïlou à Kouaoua, vers 400 m, 7. V.1969, Jaffré 231, (BISH [fragment], NOU [NOU053232], P[P00462828]) ; Boulinda, 100 m, 9.XI.1971, Jaffré 480 (NOU [NOU028887], P[P00462829]) ; Massif du Boulinda, 530 m, 12.X.1972, Jaffré 973 (NOU [NOU028885], P[P00462831]); Au pied du Massif du Boulinda, 110 m, 10.X.1972, Jaffré 1030 (NOU [NOU028853]) ; Plaine des Gaiacs, 10.XII.1977, Jaffré 2018 (NOU [NOU028886]) ; Massif du Boulinda, col de Nékoro, 11.X.1972, Jaffré 2203 (NOU [NOU028884]); Massif du Boulinda, 23.II.1978, Jaffré 2367 (NOU [NOU028852], P[P00462833]); Koniambo, 534 m, 26.X.2000, Jaffré 3452 (NOU [NOU028919], P[P00316477]) ; Mt. Koniambo, vers 400 m, 5.I.1961, MacKee 7965 (CANB, P[P00462840], US) ; Boulinda, 10.XI.1977, Morat 5705 (NOU [NOU028876], P[P00462843]) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=166.13611&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.591667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 166.13611/lat -21.591667)">Dothio</a>: le fort américain, [21°35’30.00”S, 166°08’09.99E], 17.XII.1981, Veillon 4767 (NOU [NOU030916], P[P00462845], WELTU). — South Prov., Col de Vulcain, 900 m, 11.XI.1950, Baumann-Bodenheim 8120 (A, P[P00459518]) ; Sommet W du Mt. Humboldt, 21.IX.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 15430 (A, BRI, P[P00459521], US, Z) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=165.26666&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.3825" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 165.26666/lat -21.3825)">Mine Pin-Pin</a>, 21°22’57.00”S, 165°16’00.00”E, 677 m, 20.XI.2015, Callmander 1273 (G[images of living material seen], MO n.v., NOU n.v., P n.v.) ; Massif du Kouakoué sur la crête, VII.1955, Chevalier 6 (NOU [NOU028915, NOU028921]); Goro-Nickel relevé 37-38, 20. VI.2002, Dagostini 525 (NOU [NOU028874]) ; Prony, bords de la Yaté, Franc 1787 (P[P00459524], [P00459525]; ibid. loco, Franc 1787a (P[P00459526, P00462814, P00462815]); Prony, 20.XII.1914, Franc 1901a (A, BRI, P) ; Hürlimann 597 (P[P00462820]); Vallée de la Fausse Yaté, 12.I.1951, Hürlimann 669 (A, P[P00462821], RSA, US, Z) ; Pic 576 au-dessus de la vallée de Boulari, 30.I.1951, Hürlimann 799 (A, NY, P[P00462822], US, Z) ; Pic 576 au-dessus de la vallée de Boulari, 30.I.1951, Hürlimann 802 (P[P00462823]) ; Pente nord du Pic du Casse-Cou, 3.III.1951, Hürlimann 1016 (P[P00462825]) ; Route de Yaté, 10.I.1969, Jaffré 141 (NOU [NOU053233], P[P00462826, P00462827]) ; Kouaoua, 7. V.1969, Jaffré 231 (P[P00462828]) ; Route de Yaté, 20.I.1978, Jaffré 2254 (CANB n.v., L n.v., MO[MO-5813358], NOU [NOU028883], P[P00462832]) ; Vallée de la Riv. Ouha-Tontouta, 2.XI.1995, Jaffré 3275 (BISH [fragment], NOU [NOU053039]), P[P00462834] ); N. Dumbéa valley between the 1 st and 4 th bunkers of abandoned mine, 13.XI.1955, MacKee 3337 (P[P00462837, P00462838]) ; Plaine des Lacs: NE Grand Lac, 30.XII.1978, Mac-Kee 36304 (NOU [NOU028854]) ; Yaté, 250 m, 18.XII.1985, MacKee 42946 (MO[MO-6751083], NOU [NOU028879], P[P02089890]) ; 5 km en aval de la Chute de la Rivière des Lacs, 200 m, 9.XI.1989, MacKee 43339 (BRI, NOU [NOU028875], P[P02089861] + spirits) ; Rivière des Lacs, 5 km en aval de la chute, 200 m, 5.IV.1987, MacKee 43489 (MO[MO-6751077], NOU [NOU028887], P[P02089889]) ; Yaté, Barrage, 150 m, 25. V.1987, MacKee 43555 (P[P02089859]) ; Rivière des Lacs, 220 m, 19.XI.1987, MacKee 43776 (P[P02089860]) ; Grand Lac, 250 m, 29.XII.1989, MacKee 44239 (BRI, NOU [NOU028878], P[02089887] + spirits) ; Grand Lac, 250 m, 29.XII.1988, Mac-Kee 44240 (BRI, MO[MO-6751071], NOU [NOU028855], P[P02089888] + spirits) ; Port Bouquet, Rivière Koum, au bout de la piste longeant la rivière, berge ouest, 105 m, 24.XI.2001, Munzinger 1019 (MO[MO-04771341], NOU [NOU028880]) ; Dothio: le fort Américain, 17.XII.1981, Veillon 4767 (NOU, P[P00462845]) ; Tontouta, rive gauche du creek Wanewano entre 20-30 m, 26.III.1993, Veillon 7917 (NOU [NOU028920]) ; Baie de Prony, Vieillard 2618 (P[P00462847]) ; Entre Goro et la Grand Lac, 29.III. 1942, 230 m, Virot 680 (P[P00462851]) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=166.5&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-22.1" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 166.5/lat -22.1)">Riv. des Lacs</a> near beginning of Route de Carenage, 22.10°S, 166.50°E, 150 m, 11.XII.1973, Webster 19208 (DAV, P[P00462852]). — Ab. loco: Le Rat &amp; Le Rat 768 (P[P00462835]) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00751827.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs</p><p>0.5- 3 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete, emerging densely lanate to glabrous; internodes at branch tips mostly&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Stiffly coriaceous, 2-3(-4) per node; petioles 1.5-2.5 mm, slightly sulcate distally; blades 1.5-5.7 × (0.6-) 1.2- 2.5 cm, narrowly obovate (or rarely obovate [e.g., Vieillard 2618]) to narrowly elliptic or elliptic, base cuneate to attenuate, surface flat in center but margin typically recurved (often strongly) throughout, apex prominently retuse or less often obtuse, midnerve slightly sulcate proximally becoming more or less flush, secondary veins invisible above, oil glands below (when not obscured by indumentum on branchlets) common to dense but often indistinct.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>2-4 cm, of monads, triads or few-flowered cymes, terminal or (mostly) axillary, pedicels 0-6 mm; extrafloral bracts typically at base of inflorescence branches.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>0.6-1.2 mm (occasionally two pairs in decussate arrangement below solitary flowers), very narrowly obovate, glabrous to densely lanate.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>2.0-3.0 mm, cupulate, smooth to slightly ribbed, glabrous to densely lanate; ovary apex densely hairy.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, (0.6-) 1-2 mm, narrowly obovate to narrowly oblong, glabrous to velutinous above and below.</p><p>Petals</p><p>(1.4-)2-4 × 2.5-3.5 mm, glabrous to densely hairy above and below, white to maroon.</p><p>Filaments 2-3 mm, white; anther sacs (0.1-) 0.3-0.7 mm, stramineous.</p><p>Style 4-5 mm, sometimes hairy proximally, whitish.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>c. 4.0-5.5 × 4 mm, globose to subcylindrical, yellow-green maturing dark bluish-black.</p><p>Seeds</p><p>Two.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>The indumentum on the emerging branchlets, young leaves, and floral parts varies considerably; in many specimens most or all of it falls away with age. Three or sometimes four leaves per node often occur on this generally sparsely-branched shrub. The apex of the bracteoles in some specimens exceeds the base of the calyx lobes, but this character is inconsistent. The dried immature fruits can appear to be almost capsular and only slightly fleshy. Additional research is needed to test the distinctness of G. alaternoides, G. conspicua comb. nov., and G. virotii . One focal area in particular for additional collections should be near Tontouta, an area from which specimens can be challenging to attribute to these three species.</p><p>Previously (in ms.), I recognized up to four infraspecific taxa of this species, but further study only corroborated the distinctness of Gossia conspicua comb. nov., in contrast to tentatively having recognized G. a. subsp. pulchrefolius and earlier tentative names of Gossia alaternoides vars. “tomentosa” and “velutinosa”. Many specimens bear annotations of those tentative names between 2004 and 2017.</p><p>Sterile specimens of G. alaternoides can resemble Uromyrtus emarginata (Pancher ex Brongn. &amp; Gris) Burret, but that species has pendulous solitary flowers. The leaves also can resemble Eugenia stricta Pancher ex Brongn. &amp; Gris, but its vegetative and reproductive parts are glabrous and the embryos are globular and lack the hardened testa characteristic of Gossia .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFD7F5001FA83AF1FE91438E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFD8F5031CCC3FFCFE70438E.text	67621F13FFD8F5031CCC3FFCFE70438E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia angustifolia N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia angustifolia N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 3; 4A-C)</p><p>Leaves narrowly elliptic, cuneate at base, the margin slightly sinuous, about three times longer than broad, abaxial surface glands dense, placentation basal.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.81999&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.5925" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.81999/lat -20.5925)">Grande Terre</a>, North Prov. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.81999&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.5925" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.81999/lat -20.5925)">Entre Tao</a> et Ouaième: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.81999&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.5925" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.81999/lat -20.5925)">Vallée Pouai</a>, 20°35’33.00”S, 164°49’12.00”E, 11.IX.1961, MacKee 15612 (holo-, NOU [NOU053037]; iso-, BISH [leaf fragment], MO[MO-5906585]).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, Haute Diahot, Paala, 600 m, 15.VII.1977, MacKee 33461 (BISH [fragment], NOU [NOU053245]) ; Col d’Amos, 20°17’60”S, 164°25’42”E, 13.X.2002, Munzinger 1489 et al. (MO [MO-5841144], NOU [NOU002733], P [P00354502]); Col d’Amoss, 20°18’22”S, 164°23’48”E, 14.X.2002, Tronchet 387 (K n.v., MO [MO-5906585], NOU [NOU003170], P [P00354930]); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=21.143972&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-165.22641" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 21.143972/lat -165.22641)">Vallée de Néouna</a> (Goapin), entre Aoupinié NW et <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=21.143972&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-165.22641" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 21.143972/lat -165.22641)">Forêt</a> plate, 165°13’35.1”S, 21°8’38.3”E, 31.VII.2012, Vandrot 597 &amp; Chambrey (MO, n.v., MPU [MPU028535], P [P02089718]).</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — In reference to the relatively narrow leaves, compared to most congenerics in New Caledonia.</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00354930.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Gossia angustifolia sp. nov. occurs on the edge of the Massif du Panié and at Col d’Amoss (Fig. 3), sometimes common locally; in gallery forests over micaschistes, c. 100-600 m altitude. Flowering November (material scant); fruiting July through October.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs or trees</p><p>3-8 m, sometimes densely branched.</p><p>Bark</p><p>Brownish and somewhat rough.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete to laterally compressed; internodes&gt; 5 mm., emerging reddish.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 1.2-3.5 mm, terete; blades 5.0-9.0 × 1.9-3.3 cm, narrowly elliptic, base cuneate, surface flat, margin flat to slightly wavy, apex acute, midnerve above sulcate, secondary veins slightly raised above, oil glands of lower surface dense but faint. Inflorescence 2-2.5 cm, of few-flowered racemes or panicles, terminal and axillary; pedicels 0.3-1.4 cm; extrafloral bracts lacking or scale-like.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>1.5-2 mm, narrowly oblanceolate, sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>2.5-3.5 mm, campanulate or urceolate, width in flower unknown, surface smooth, sparsely sericeous; ovary apex glabrous.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 1.2-1.5 mm, broadly rounded, glabrous above, sparsely sericeous below, greenish.</p><p>Petals stamens and style</p><p>Unknown.</p><p>Berry</p><p>6-8 × c. 7 mm, globular, base rounded, whitish to reddish; seeds 2.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Gossia angustifolia sp. nov. is recognized by its narrowly elliptic leaves with slightly undulate (in sicco) margins and (usually) dense but small oil glands on the lower surface. It can resemble G. ramiflora sp. nov. based on the slightly undulate leaf margins and their overall shape, but the margins of G. ramiflora sp. nov. typically are significantly more undulate. It also can resemble G. vieillardii, but that species has fewer oil glands on the lower leaf surface. Preliminary results suggest this species is atypical in the genus by virtue of its basal placentation in a single locule (Fig. 4C). The laminar oil glands are less dense on one specimen (Vandrot 597).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFD8F5031CCC3FFCFE70438E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFDBF5021C3B3A90FACC41B4.text	67621F13FFDBF5021C3B3A90FACC41B4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia aphthosa (Brongn. & Gris) N. Snow	<div><p>Gossia aphthosa (Vieill. ex Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>(Figs 4D-G; 5; 13E-I)</p><p>Austrobaileya 8: 180 (2010). — Eugenia aphthosa Brongn. &amp; Gris, Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 13: 469 (1865). — Austromyrtus aphthosa (Brongn. &amp; Gris) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 504 (1941).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Collines de Wagap, Vieillard 2172 (holo-, P [P00602542]; iso-, A[A00255453, A00255454], B, BISH, G[G003410963, G00340964], L[3 sheets], MEL, P[P00602543], Z[Z-000050852]).</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Likely from the Greek aphtha, which is a reference to thrush (= mouth ulcers), coupled with the Latin suffix osa (“full of”). Aphthosa thus presumably refers to the ring of corky tissue at the base of the petioles.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — In three distinct regions areas on Grande Terre (Fig. 5); in gallery forests and other humid to wet forests over ultramafics, schists, micaschists, and gneiss, 250- 500 m. Flowering August through February; fruiting September through June.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Trees or shrubs</p><p>2- 8 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete to compressed; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 2-4.8 mm, flat to terete; blades (8.5-)12.0-24.0 × (3.5-)6.6-13.0 cm, elliptic to broadly elliptic, base cordate (and sometimes amplexicaulous) to broadly rounded, surface flat, margin flat to somewhat revolute at edges, apex obtuse to somewhat acute, midnerve above sulcate, secondary veins flush above, oil glands of lower surface dense but indistinct.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>1.5-6 cm, of monads, triads, or few-flowered racemes, axillary or clustered on naked branches; pedicels 0.3-1.5 cm; extrafloral bracts lacking or scale-like.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>(1.5-) 3-4 mm, very narrowly ovate or elliptic to very narrowly obovate, sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>c. 1.5 × 1.5 mm, campanulate, surface smooth, glabrous to densely sericeous; ovary apex glabrous.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 4 or 5, 1- 2 mm, broadly triangular, sparsely sericeous above, glabrous to sparsely sericeous below, green.</p><p>Petals</p><p>c. 5 × c. 4 mm, glabrous above and below, ciliate on margins.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>5-8 mm; anther sacs 0.4-0.5 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>6-7 mm, glabrous to sparsely sericeous at base.</p><p>Berry</p><p>8-9 × 8-9 mm, globular, base rounded, green maturing becoming dark purplish to blackish; seed number unknown.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Gossia aphthosa can be distinguished among New Caledonian congeners by its relatively large, flat, and broadly rounded to cordate leaf bases and frequently cauliflorous inflorescences.The nominal subspecies has a prominent ring of corky tissue at the base of the petioles, which is unique in the genus (e.g., Snow et al. 2003). The three subspecies are based on differences in eco-geography and non-fixed, but mostly consistent differences in morphology. The inflorescence branches are said to be reddish on some specimens (e.g., MacKee 13229) and the leaves are said to emerge pinkish (MacKee 4427).</p><p>KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF GOSSIA APHTHOSA (VIEILL. EX BRONGN. &amp; GRIS) N. SNOW</p><p>1. Base of petiole surrounded by prominent ring of corky tissue; hypanthium often silvery-sericeous (northern late Cretaceous micaschistes and gneiss, Massif du Panié, Northern Province) ................................................ ...................................................................................................................... Gossia aphthosa subsp. aphthosa</p><p>— Base of petiole without corky swellings; hypanthium mostly glabrous (northern Central Range basement Mesozoics ands schistes) ...................................................................................................................................... 2</p><p>2. Inflorescences 5-8 cm; leaf blades stiffly coriaceous, base strongly cordate and clasping; north-central humid forests ........................................ Gossia aphthosa subsp. longipedunculata N. Snow &amp; Munzinger, subsp. nov.</p><p>— Inflorescence less than 6 cm; leaf blades coriaceous, base rounded or cordate and clasping; southeast humid forests over ultramafics ................ Gossia aphthosa subsp. austro-orientalis N. Snow &amp; K. Gandhi, subsp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFDBF5021C3B3A90FACC41B4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFDAF5021E773931FC4742AF.text	67621F13FFDAF5021E773931FC4742AF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia aphthosa subsp. aphthosa	<div><p>Gossia aphthosa subsp. aphthosa</p><p>(Figs 4D-G; 5)</p><p>SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. North Prov. Plateau du Col des Roussettes route forestière près de Riv Ouen – Sieu, 21°25’45.19”S, 165°27’15.01”E, 29.IX.1964, Blanchon 994 (NOU[NOU029700], P[P00462860]); Touho, Ponandou, 20°49’12.00”S, 165°13’45.12”E, 15.V.1973, MacKee 26722 (NOU [NOU053234]); Tiwaka: Pente Sud, Inédète, 250 m, 30.III.1974, MacKee 28444 (NOU [NOU029696], P[P06668973]); Ponandou, le Captage, 27.X.2005, Munzinger 3084 et al. (P[P05121899], WELTU) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P 05121899.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Central and northeast parts of Grande Terre; over micaschistes and gneiss, 250 m.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>A reliable diagnostic character is the corky swellings surrounding the base of the petioles (Fig. 4D-E, G). The hypanthium of some (e.g., MacKee 28444) can be prominently sericeous; the leaf blades of some appear to be only thinly coriaceous (e.g., Munzinger 3084).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFDAF5021E773931FC4742AF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFDAF5041CF73836FD8E4150.text	67621F13FFDAF5041CF73836FD8E4150.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia aphthosa N. Snow & K. Gandhi	<div><p>Gossia aphthosa subsp. austro-orientalis N. Snow &amp; K. Gandhi, subsp. nov.</p><p>(Fig. 5)</p><p>Differing from Gossia aphthosa subsp. longipedunculata N. Snow &amp; Munzinger, subsp. nov. by its generally shorter inflorescences, leaf blades of somewhat thinner texture, and bases of leaves that are not as tightly clasping the stem.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov., Rivière Bleue, 25.X.1974, M. Schmid 5180 (holo-, P [P00462872]; iso-, [NOU [NOU029695], P[P00462871]).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=166.64667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-22.118608" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 166.64667/lat -22.118608)">Grande Terre</a>, South Prov., Forêt du Mois de Mai, 22°07’06.99”S, 166°38’48.01”E, 19.XII.2006, Barrabé et al. 431 (NOU [NOU016015], MO[MO-6012551], P[P04776185]) ; Forêt du Mois de Mai, 13. VI.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 14066 (P[P00462856]) ; ibid. loco, 24. VI.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 14182 (A, P[P00462857], Z); ibid. loco, 24. VI.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 14206 (A, P[P00462859], Z); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=166.53691&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-22.118608" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 166.53691/lat -22.118608)">Vallée de Thy</a>, 22°07’06.99”S, 166°32’12.84”E, 28. VI.2003, Biffin 112 &amp; Craven (CANB [CANB799723, n.v.], P[P02090975]) ; Thy Upper Western Road forest, 340 m, 5.II.1980, Brinon 692 (P[P00462861]) ; St. Louis, 600 m, 14.XI.1949, MacDaniels 2216 (P[P00462864]) ; Mt. Koghi, slope towards Vallée de Thy (St. Louis), 400-500 m, 21.IV.1956, MacKee 4427 (A, L, P[P00462866]) ; ibid. loco, 21.IV.1956, MacKee 4446 (P[P00462867]); Forêt Desmazures, 13.IV.2005, Munzinger 2767 (NOU [NOU 07908], P[P04827941, P04827945]) ; Haut Yaté, Rivière Bleue, 300 m, Schmid 5269 (NOU [NOU029684, NOU029688], P[P00462873]) ; Haute Yaté: Forêt du Mois de Mai, 200 m, 25.XI.1982, Suprin 2259 (P[P00462874]) ; ibid. loco, 8.III.1966, Veillon 660 (NOU [NOU029689], P[P00462875]). — Ab loco. 1868-1872, Balansa 88 (A, P[P00462854, P00462855]) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P04827941.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — From the Latin australis (south) and oriens (east), in reference to its more southerly and easterly distribution on Grande Terre relative to the other subspecies.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Southern part of Grande Terre; in dense humid forests or riparian forests over ultramafics, c. 150- 660 m. Flowering March through June; fruiting April through October.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>The subspecies varies from being shrubs from 3 m to trees to 10 m. The fruit is said to transition from green to white, followed by reddish to dark purple. The pulp of the mature fruit is said to be sour (MacKee 4446).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFDAF5041CF73836FD8E4150	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFDCF5041F883A50FAF54711.text	67621F13FFDCF5041F883A50FAF54711.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia aphthosa subsp. longipedunculata N. Snow & Munzinger 2020	<div><p>Gossia aphthosa subsp. longipedunculata N. Snow &amp; Munzinger, subsp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 5; 13E-I)</p><p>Differing from Gossia aphthosa subsp. austro-orientalis N. Snow &amp; K. Gandhi, subsp. nov. by its somewhat longer inflorescences (5-8 cm vs less than 6 cm in G. a. subsp. austro-orientalis N. Snow &amp; K. Gandhi, subsp. nov.), more stiffly coriaceous leaf blades, and different eco-geography. Also resembling Gossia colnettiana, but that species has rounded to cuneate leaf bases (vs cordate-clasping leaf bases in G. a. subsp. austro-orientalis N. Snow &amp; K. Gandhi, subsp. nov.).</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=165.24222&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.000828" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 165.24222/lat -21.000828)">Grande Terre</a>, North Prov., Haute Amoa, 21°00’02.98”S, 165°14’31.99”E, 300-400 m, 7.IX.1968, MacKee 19502 (holo-, P [P05094105]; iso-, NOU [NOU029685]).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. Nékoro, prop. P. Johnson, 1.IV.2004, Dagostini 654 (NOU [NOU001193) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=165.24222&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.000828" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 165.24222/lat -21.000828)">Haute Vallée de l’Amoa</a>, 21°00’02.98”S, 165°14’31.99”E, 12.VIII.1965, MacKee 13229 (BISH, MO[MO-04777159], NOU [NOU023797], P[P00462868, P00462869, P00462870] ; ibid. loco, 300 m, 28.IV.1968, MacKee 18698 (NOU [NOU029687], P[P02089984]); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=165.29695&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.183607" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 165.29695/lat -21.183607)">Ponérihouen</a>, 21°11’00.99”S, 165°17’48.98”E, 700-900 m, 6.XI.1972, MacKee 25749 (NOU [NOU053235]) ; ibid. loco, 21°11’00.99”S, 165°17’48.98”E, 28.IV.1973, MacKee 26628 (NOU [NOU053235, NOU053038); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=165.25166&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.015278" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 165.25166/lat -21.015278)">HauteTchamba</a>, 21°0’55”S, 165°15’6”E, 10.XI.2002, Munzinger 1456 et al. (MO[MO-04767308], NOU [NOU002675], P[P00354535], WELTU) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00354535.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — In reference to the relatively long peduncles occurring on many specimens.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Central Grande Terre, near Ponérihouen, Haute Tchamba, and Haute vallée de l’Amoa (Fig. 5) in humid forests on volcanic-sedimentary soils, 300- 900 m. Flowering confirmed August through April; fruiting October and November.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>This subspecies is recognized most easily by its large (8-12 mm) petals. (An unpublished manuscript name of mine for some specimens was Gossia “grandiflora”.) The inflorescences often are densely fasciculate in leaf axils or on branches and stems. It can also resemble G. kuakuensis, but that species has larger flowers and a slightly ribbed to rugose hypanthium.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFDCF5041F883A50FAF54711	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFDCF5071CC43C93FA0B438D.text	67621F13FFDCF5071CC43C93FA0B438D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia bourailensis N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia bourailensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 4; 6)</p><p>Resembling Gossia diversifolia but differing by its terete branchlets and the leaf blade, which is conduplicate only at its base.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov. Bourail, dans les bois, III.1869, Balansa 1516a (holo-, P [P00724290]; iso-, BISH [fragment], P[P00402718, P00402755]).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia, Grande Terre, South Prov. Bourail, 1868- 1970, Balansa 416a (Z[Z-000050855]) ; Peya (Bourail), 14.IV.2011, J.-P. Butin 58 (P[P02089712]) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=166.60301&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.1361" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 166.60301/lat -21.1361)">Montagne des Sources</a>, 21°08’09.96”S 166°36’10.80”E, 19.II.1982, Veillon 5958 (NOU [NOU0534329]) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00724290.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Derived from the town of Bourail.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — A poorly understood species as presently known and collected only from the vicinity of Bourail (in 1869) and more recently (1982) from Montagne des Sources (Fig. 6); in woods, c. 50 m. Flowering February and March; fruiting through August.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs</p><p>4- 5 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 1-3 mm, rounded; blades 2.0-3.7 × 1.3-2.3 cm, ovate, base rounded to cordate, surface flat to slightly wavy but somewhat conduplicate above petiole, margin flat to slightly undulate, apex broadly acute to obtuse, midnerve above flush, secondary and tertiary veins slightly raised throughout, oil glands of lower surface sparse and indistinct. Inflorescence</p><p>1.4-1.8 cm, of monads, terminal, axillary, or from naked internodes; extrafloral bracts absent or scale-like.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>0.5-1 mm, narrowly ovate to ovate, glabrous to sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>1.5-2.2 × 2.5 mm, obconic to campanulate, surface smooth, glabrous; ovary apex hairy.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 4 or 5, 0.5-2 mm, broadly rounded, glabrous above and below, green.</p><p>Petals</p><p>4 (or irregularly 5-8), 4-5 × 2.8-4.5 mm, glabrous above and below, minutely ciliate on margins.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>3.5-5 mm; anther sacs 0.3-0.5 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>4-4.5 mm, sparsely sericeous to tomentose throughout.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>Green 4-5.5 × 4-5 mm, globular, base rounded, mature color unconfirmed; seed number 1.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Gossia bourailensis sp. nov. resembles G. diversifolia but has terete branchlets, a somewhat narrower petiole, and the base of the leaf blade is more or less conduplicate. It also resembles G. conduplicata sp. nov., which has much more pronounced folding of the leaf blades, and Gossia katepahiensis sp. nov., which has a more broadly rounded leaf apex and glabrous ovary. Some petioles of G. bourailensis sp. nov. are twisted and bent away from the axis of the midrib, but this is a subtle character. Some flowers of Balansa 416a have eight petals, which probably is a developmental anomaly. The distribution as currently understood, from the type specimen in 1869 near the west-central part of Grande Terre and Montagne des Sources in 1982 is anomalous; further study is needed.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFDCF5071CC43C93FA0B438D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFDEF5181FB93AB0FACC406C.text	67621F13FFDEF5181FB93AB0FACC406C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia clusioides (Brongn. & Gris) N. Snow	<div><p>Gossia clusioides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>(Figs 7-11)</p><p>Austrobaileya 8: 180 (2010). — Eugenia clusioides Brongn. &amp; Gris, Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 12: 180 (1865). — Austromyrtus clusioides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 503 (1941). — Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Deplanche 525 (holo-, P [P00602545]).</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Derived from the generic name Clusia L. ( Clusiaceae) given the resemblance of its leaf blades to many species of that genus.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Across much of Grande Terre (Fig. 7); in humid or gallery forests over micaschistes, graywackes, or ultramafics, 10- 900 m. Flowering December to June; fruiting January to November.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Trees or shrubs</p><p>(0.5-)3-9(-15) m tall.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Round to compressed; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 3.5-20 mm, slightly sulcate; blades 7.0-18.5 × 2.5-12.0 cm, narrowly elliptic to broadly elliptic or obovate, base cuneate or rounded, surface flat to strongly bullate, margin flat to revolute, apex obtuse to sometimes retuse, midnerve above strongly sulcate, secondary veins flush to impressed above, oil glands of lower surface sparse to common but indistinct.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>90-160 mm; of monads, cymes, racemes, or panicles, terminal or axillary, pedicels 0.7-2.0 cm; extrafloral bracts leafy and pronounced when present but soon deciduous.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>6-7 mm, narrowly ovate to ovate, sparsely sericeous. Hypanthium</p><p>4-5 × 6-11 mm, campanulate, surface smooth, sparsely sericeous to sericeous (trichomes sometimes reddish at base); ovary apex glabrous.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 2.5-4.5 mm, broadly ovate to rounded, sericeous above (sometimes densely so), sparsely sericeous below, green.</p><p>Petals</p><p>9-11.5 × 7-9 mm, glabrous above, sericeous-tomentose below (trichomes reddish at base).</p><p>Filaments</p><p>6-8 mm; anther sacs 0.6-1.0 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>Up to 9 mm, glabrous.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>7-17 × 7-15 mm, globular, base rounded to tapered, dark bluish-black; seeds 1-3.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Gossia clusioides has large flowers and small leafy bracts in the inflorescences that typically are soon caducous; the species also can be diagnosed by the strongly sulcate midveins on the upper leaf surface. It is one of several species in which the epidermis begins to crack into dark, irregularly rectangular flakes during the second year of growth.</p><p>Herbarium labels indicate that some members are slender and somewhat sparsely branched. Specimens with large (nonbullate) leaves might be confused with of G. aphthosa, but the flowers and fruits of G. clusioides are considerably larger.</p><p>The species has considerably more variation in leaf morphology than others of Gossia in New Caledonia. As treated here, Gossia clusioides comprises nine subspecies that are separated based primarily on differences in leaf dimensions and texture (smooth versus bullate), edaphic preferences, and often (but not always) geographic isolation. Some sites, however, have more than one subspecies. Much additional fieldwork is needed to further test the distinctness of the subspecies and to better understand their differences and distributions, especially given that these entities may be undergoing speciation.</p><p>KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF GOSSIA CLUSIOIDES (BRONGN. &amp; GRIS) N. SNOW</p><p>1. Leaf blades moderately to strongly bullate ................................................................................................... 2</p><p>— Leaf blades flat (sometimes slightly bullate in subspp. clusioides and taomensis) ............................................ 5</p><p>2. Mature leaves (6.5-)7.0- 12.5 cm wide .......................................................................................................... ............................................... Gossia clusioides subsp. ploumensis (Däniker) N. Snow, comb. et stat. nov.</p><p>— Mature leaves 3.5-6.5 cm wide .................................................................................................................... 3</p><p>3. Leaves ovate to elliptic or broadly elliptic .................... Gossia clusioides subsp. maoyana N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>— Leaves narrowly elliptic ............................................................................................................................... 4</p><p>4. Leaves 4-7 times longer than wide .......................... Gossia clusioides subsp. avanguiensis N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>— Leaves 2-3(-4) times longer than wide .......................... Gossia clusioides subsp. bleuensis N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>5. Leaves mostly elliptic to broadly elliptic or obovate (rarely narrowly elliptic in subsp. clusioides) .................. 6</p><p>— Leaves narrowly elliptic ............................................................................................................................... 7</p><p>6. Leaf blades thickly coriaceous, upper surface often glossy, abaxially secondary veins often somewhat distinct, margin often strongly recurved nearly throughout; southwestern coast over ultramafics ................................. .......................................................................... Gossia clusioides subsp. callmanderiana N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>— Leaf blades coriaceous, upper surface matte, abaxial secondary veins flush or distinct, margins flat to slightly recurved; across much of Grande Terre ......................................................... Gossia clusioides subsp. clusioides</p><p>7. Leaves obovate to elliptic, apex obtuse or (usually at least slightly) retuse ....................................................... ................................................................................. Gossia clusioides subsp. rembaiensis N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>— Leaves narrowly elliptic, apex obtuse to broadly acute ................................................................................. 8</p><p>8. Petioles 2-7 mm long; leaves 3-6 cm long ................... Gossia clusioides subsp. taomensis N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>— Petioles 8-20 mm long; leaves 9.5-17 cm long ........ Gossia clusioides subsp. tiebaghiensis N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFDEF5181FB93AB0FACC406C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC0F5181FEA3B73FA3040F0.text	67621F13FFC0F5181FEA3B73FA3040F0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia clusioides subsp. avanguiensis N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia clusioides subsp. avanguiensis N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 7; 11A)</p><p>Similar to Gossia clusioides subsp. bleuensis subsp.nov. but with leaf blades 4-7 × longer than wide (vs 2-3[-4] × longer in G. c. subsp. bleuensis subsp. nov.), more strongly bullate, and occurring near the west central coast at about 400 m (vs subsp. bleuensis subsp. nov. in the southeast).</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov. Poya: Avangui, 400 m, 3.VIII.1976, in low forest on rocky serpentine slope, MacKee 30824 (holo-, P [P02089852]).</p><p>PARATYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov. Poya:Avangui, 2.I.1976, MacKee 30629 (NOU[NOU029543], P[P02089853]).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P02089852.</p><p>ETYOMOLOGY. — After Avangui, the type locality.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, ECOLOGY AND PHENOLOGY. — Poya (Avangui) (Fig. 7); in low forests over ultramafics, to 400 m. Flowering confirmed only for March; fruiting confirmed only for January.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>MacKee sometimes returned to the same specimen to collect flowers and fruits at different times, and the two specimens cited likely are from the same tree (P. Lowry pers.comm. 2015). The unvouchered photo (Fig. 11A), which almost assuredly is this taxon, is said to be from Näräja, between Ponérihouen and Ouaté, but I have been unable to confirm that location. This subspecies, as presently known from vouchered collections, is a dense, multicaulous shrub of c. 1 meter. However, the non-vouchered digital images (Fig. 11A; see also http:// endemia.nc/flore/fiche6365) of a larger shrub appears to represent this subspecies; its developing leaves remain stramineous to light maroon until they reach full size and become green.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC0F5181FEA3B73FA3040F0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC0F5181C293BF0FA1F438D.text	67621F13FFC0F5181C293BF0FA1F438D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia clusioides subsp. bleuensis N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia clusioides subsp. bleuensis N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 7; 8A; 10B)</p><p>Leaf blades strongly bullate, 4.0-8.0(-11.5) cm, narrowly elliptic. The inflorescence can be up 8.5 cm long, exceeding adjacent leaves. The growth form in profile often is slender.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov., Rivière Bleue reserve, forested slopes 300 m, 30.VII.1981, McPherson 4001 (holo-, P [P00402735]; iso-, BISH [fragment], MO, NOU [NOU030915], PTBG, WELTU).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. GrandeTerre, South Prov., Rivière Bleue, 22.II.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 10873 (P[P00402729]) ; Bon Secours, Baumann-Bodenheim 11847 (P[P00402730]) ; Rivière Bleue, Mois de Mai, 23. VI.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 14045 (MO[MO-5163034], P[P00402727]) ; Forêt Faux Bon Secours, 9. V.1981, MacKee 39042 (NOU [NOU029540], P[P02089862, P02089863]) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P02089863.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — From its occurrence in the vicinity of Rivière Bleue.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Southeast Grande Terre (Fig. 7); forested slopes over ultramafics, 300- 450 m. Flowering May and June; fruiting confirmed only for July to December.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Further fieldwork may reveal this as being the same taxon as G. a. subsp. avanguiensis subsp. nov., which is diagnosed primarily by its longer leaves, but which occurs much farther north.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC0F5181C293BF0FA1F438D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC3F51A1FE739F1FE2B46D2.text	67621F13FFC3F51A1FE739F1FE2B46D2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia clusioides subsp. callmanderiana N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia clusioides subsp. callmanderiana N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 7; 8C, D; 10A)</p><p>Leaf blades flat, thickly coriaceous, and often with a glossy adaxial surface; margin becoming recurved more or less throughout; secondary abaxial veins often prominent and projecting slightly.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov., Baie Ngo, 28.VII.1983, Suprin 2221 (holo-, P [P00402738]; iso-, NOU [NOU053238], P[P00402752]).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov., Route de Prony, 17.XII.1973, Jaffré 1197 (NOU [NOU029545], P[P00402724]) ; Région du Col de Plum, II.1974, Jaffré 1275 (BISH [fragment], NOU [NOU029546], P[P00402731]) ; Plum, 18. V.1985, MacKee 42596 (NOU [NOU029581], P[P05094060]) ; Plum, 30 m, 31.III.1986, MacKee 43056 (P[P02089854]); Au-dessus de la Baie N’go, 4.II.1982, Veillon 4813 (NOU [NOU029547], P[P05094308]) ; Rive Nord de la Baie N’go, 28.IV.1945, Virot 1537 (BISH, P[P00402721, P00402748, P00402749], WELTU) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P02089854.</p><p>ETYOMOLOGY. — In recognition of Martin Wilhem Callmander (1975-) of the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (G), for his many collections and editorial commitment to expedite the publication of taxonomic novelties from New Caledonia (e.g., Snow et al. 2016a, b).</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, ECOLOGY AND PHENOLOGY. — Vicinity of Baie Ngo and Plum (Fig. 7); in maquis over ultramafics, up to 50 m. Flowering March through July; fruiting confirmed only for February.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Athough somewhat subtle on herbarium specimens, the leaf texture is thicker and the sheen of the adaxial surface is more glossy (reflective) than members of G. a. subsp. bleuensis subsp. nov. and G. a. subsp. clusioides, which also occur in the southeast.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC3F51A1FE739F1FE2B46D2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC2F51A1E683DD2FE20438E.text	67621F13FFC2F51A1E683DD2FE20438E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia clusioides subsp. clusioides	<div><p>Gossia clusioides subsp. clusioides</p><p>(Figs 7; 8F)</p><p>SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre. North Prov. Col de Poro (Bota Mere), 10.II.2004, Dagostini &amp; Rigault 792 (NOU[NOU002967], P[P05121901]); Ponérihouen: Pente est du Mont Aoupinié, 500-700 m, 27. VI.1972, MacKee 25608 (BISH, NOU [NOU029590], P[P00402732]); Haute Néaoua-Ouen-Sieu, 500-600 m, 12.II.1970, MacKee 21835 (NOU [NOU029589]) ; Kopeto, crête est du Mont Vert, 700 m, 24. VI.1973, MacKee 26893 (P[P02089844]) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.81177&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.035513" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.81177/lat -21.035513)">Koné</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.81177&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.035513" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.81177/lat -21.035513)">Massif Koniambo</a>, Creek Confiance, rive gauche, 21°02’07.85”S, 164°48’42.33”E, 100 m, 21.IX.2016, Muzinger 7875 (legit. Scoptera) (MPU [MPU640696]). — South Prov., Bassin du Boulari, 17. V.1869, Balansa 1490a (A, P[P00402723], Z); Col de Mouirange, forêt Desmazure, 8.III.2005, Dagostini 1040 (NOU [NOU009286]) ; Ngo Col, 100 m, 22.X.2004, Dagostini 1296 (NOU [NOU019100]) ; À Yaté, 20.III.1916, Franc 2084 (A, BISH, NOU [NOU029555], P[P00402728]) ; Kuébini, 2 m, 21. VI.1968, MacKee 19007 ([NOU029583], P[P02089849]) ; Kuébini, 5.III.1971, MacKee 23393 (NOU [NOU029582], P[P02089856, P02089857]) ; Yaté, Touaourou, 5 m, 21.XII.1986, MacKee 43385 (NOU [NOU029579], P[P00402720]) ; Mt Nakada, c. 900 m, VI.1979, Morat 6411 (P[P00462887]) ; Plaine de Kanala, 1861-1867, Vieillard 2597 (P[P00402750]) ; Bois de la Plaine, Kanala, Vieillard 2612 (P[P00402751]); Neuméníe, Mé Ouébo, c. 350 m, 18.XII.1981, Veillon 4772 (NOU [NOU029554], P[P00402739], WELTU) ; Riv. Tara, 2.5-3 km N of Touaourou, 10-20 m, 18.VIII.1968, Webster &amp; Hildreth 14881 (DAV, GH, NSW, P). — Ab loco. Balansa 1490 (P[P05093917]) ; Petit 166 (P[P00402737]).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P02089856.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Across much of Grande Terre, sometimes near coast in southeast (Fig. 7); in maquis over ultramafics, 5- 900 m. Flowering February to September; fruiting February to December.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>My concept of this subspecies has shifted significantly through time, rendering as outdated many prior annotations (some dating back to 2003), including some that were annotated as type specimens. Specimens at the southern tip of Grande Terre can have narrowly elliptic leaves (MacKee 23393).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC2F51A1E683DD2FE20438E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC2F51A1C273FFCFA004790.text	67621F13FFC2F51A1C273FFCFA004790.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia clusioides subsp. maoyana N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia clusioides subsp. maoyana N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 7; 8B)</p><p>Trees or shrubs 3- 4 m. Leaf blades slightly bullate, ovate to elliptic or broadly elliptic.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov., Nord Massif Ignambi, 600 m, 28.XI.1967, Veillon 1514 (holo-, P[P00758089]; iso-, NOU [NOU030918]) .</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov., Mé Maoya, 780 m, 20.XI.1992, Jaffré 3196 (NOU [NOU029543]) ; Mé Maoya, 500 m, 30.XI.1992, Dawson WELTU 16603 (BISH [fragment], WELTU). — Ab loco., Balansa 1490 (P[P00402745]) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00758089.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — In reference to collections from Mé Maoya.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Mé Mayoa and Ignambi (Fig. 7); in dense but often low stature forests over ultramafics, 400- 780 m. Flowering confirmed February to April; fruiting January through November.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Additional sampling may reveal this to be the same as the nominal subspecies, although the latter occurs in the southeast. Some specimens, including the holotype, were annotated previously with a manuscript infraspecific epithet of “orientalis”.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC2F51A1C273FFCFA004790	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC2F51C1CE13B13FE8541CF.text	67621F13FFC2F51C1CE13B13FE8541CF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia clusioides subsp. ploumensis (Daniker) N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia clusioides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow subsp. ploumensis (Däniker) N. Snow, comb. et stat. nov.</p><p>(Figs 7; 9; 10D)</p><p>Differing from other subspecies by the relatively large, elliptic, and moderately to strongly bullate leaf blades.</p><p>Austrobaileya 8: 180 (2010). — Eugenia ploumensis Däniker, Beiblatt zur Vierteljahrsschriftder Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich, Beibl. 19, 78: 298 (1933). — Austromyrtus ploumensis (Däniker) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 504 (1941).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Ploume, 9.II.1926, A.U. Däniker 2807 (holo-, Z [Z-000016108]; iso-, Z[Z-000016109]).</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Across much of Grande Terre (Fig. 7); in forests; c. 300- 600 m. Flowering August through March; fruiting confirmed from December through June.</p><p>SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov. Silva Peala, ad occidentem Pouebo, 500-600 m, 6.V.1968, Bernardi 12606 (P[P00402719]; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.51694&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.405277" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.51694/lat -20.405277)">Mount Mandjelia</a> and slopes, 540 m, 20°24’19”S, 164°31’01”E, Craven 15027 et al. (CANB, n.v.; P[P02091556]) ; Forêt de Tende (Haute Diahot), exploitation forestière Frouin, 500-600 m, 12.XI.1967, MacKee 17534 (NOU [NOU029693], P[P02088630]) ; Forêt de Tende (Haute Diahot), 500-600 m, 17.IX.1967, MacKee 17550 (P[P02089850]) ; Haute Diahot: Exploitation Forestière, Frouin, Forêt Tendé, 31.III.1969, MacKee 20453 (NOU [NOU 05323]) ; Haut Diahot, Tendé, 600 m, 30. VI.1982, MacKee 40567 (MO[MO-6751044], NOU [NOU029690], P[P02089872]) ; Road leading up to Mt Mandjélia from Ouégoa, c. 650 m, 11.VIII.2003, Snow 9215 et al. (ASU, BISH, BRI, CANB, KSP [KSP016939], MO, NOU [NOU 00683], NY, P[P00459485], WELTU). — South Prov. Mt Mi (= Do Mt sentier Ouanémie [Hopkins &amp; Bradford 2009: appendix 2]), 20.II.1869, Balansa 1490a (P[P00402725, P06669014]) ; Entre St Louis et Ounia, 15.I.1869, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=166.7111&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-22.258612" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 166.7111/lat -22.258612)">Balansa</a> 1490bis (P[P00402726, P00402753, P00402754]; Piste du pont des Japonais, 166°42’40”E, 22°15’31”S, 4.II.2007, Munzinger 4119 et al. (MO n.v., NOU n.v., P[P05321122, P05321125, P05321126], WELTU).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P05321125.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>This subspecies has large, elliptic and moderately to strongly bullate leaf blades. It occurs from the north to south near the coasts, but I am unable to discern consistent differences between the northern and southern populations. Previously annotated specimens of this subspecies may bear the manuscript names Gossia “grandibullata” or Gossia clusioides subsp./ var. “grandibullata”. Unvouchered photos (Fig. 10D) of a possible specimen of this subspecies taken by J.-L. Ruiz near the River de Pirogues showed honeybees (Apis sp.) pollinating the flowers.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC2F51C1CE13B13FE8541CF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC4F51C1FF13AD9FB9842D3.text	67621F13FFC4F51C1FF13AD9FB9842D3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia clusioides subsp. rembaiensis N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia clusioides subsp. rembaiensis N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 7; 8E)</p><p>Leaf blades flat; differing from other subspecies by its attenuate base of leaf and retuse apex.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov. Forested slopes near Mt Rembai, south of Col d’Amieu, c. 500 m, 7.XI.1982, McPherson 5083 (holo-, P [P00402736]; iso-, BISH [fragment], MO[MO-3218923, MO-2907911], NOU [NOU029586, NOU67076]).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov. Mt. Rembai, 450 m, 7.XI.1982, Dawson WELTU16591 (WELTU) ; Contrefort Nord-ouest du Mt. Canala, 700-800 m, 28.VII.1971, MacKee 24011 (P [P02089847]); Ponerihouen, Pente est du Mont Aoupinie, 500 m, 27.VII.1974, MacKee 29024 (NOU [NOU029577], P [P02089848]) ; Mont Pembai, 700 m, 31.V.1990, MacKee 44916 (NOU [NOU029580], P[P02089858]; Mt Nakada, vers 900 m, VI.1979, Morat 6411 (P [P00462887]).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00402736.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Inland mountains on Grande Terre (Fig. 7); humid forested slopes over schistes or graywackes, 450- 900 m. Flowering November through July; fruits not seen.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Indicated as being common in some places locally (MacKee 44916). The flowers are said to have a spicy-fragrant smell (McPherson 5083). MacKee (MacKee 29024) indicates the local name as being “tu”.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC4F51C1FF13AD9FB9842D3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC4F51F1C2539DFFD33418F.text	67621F13FFC4F51F1C2539DFFD33418F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia clusioides subsp. taomensis N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia clusioides subsp. taomensis N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 7; 8G; 11B)</p><p>Leaf blades flat to slightly bullate, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 3-6 cm, less than 3 times as long as wide; petioles 2-7 mm long. Inflorescences 3-7 cm long.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov ., Mont Taom: Crête Est, 1000 m, 13.VII.1979, MacKee 37148 (holo-, P [P00402734] ; iso-, BISH, NOU [NOU029551, NOU029585], WELTU).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov. Base sud du Koniambo, Riv. Rouge, maquis sur terrain rocheux serpentineux, 50 m, 23.III.1969, MacKee 20343 (P [P02089846]) ; Base sud de Koniambo (as « Koriambo »), Rivière Rouge, 50- 100 m, 15.IV.1972, MacKee 25301 (NOU [NOU029552], P[P02089983] ; Taom, Mt. Homédéboa, 800-900 m, 16.X.1969, MacKee 20967 (NOU [NOU029587], P [P02089845]) ; Mont Paeoua, 900-1000 m, VI.1973, MacKee 26887 (NOU [NOU029584], P [P02089843]); Base du Koniambo, Rivière Pandanus, 3.X.2005, Munzinger &amp; Swenson 3015 (P [P04885463]); Massif du Taom, 900 m, 24.III.1982, Veillon 4828 (NOU [NOU029585, NOU029551], WELTU) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00402734.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Peaks of northwest coast (Koniambo and Massif du Taom; Fig. 7); in maquis over ultramafics, c. 50-1000 m. Flowering confirmed only for March; fruiting July through October.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Evidently rare near the base of Koniambo. This subspecies has leaves similar to, but of significantly smaller dimensions, than those of G. c. subsp. tiebaghiensis subsp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC4F51F1C2539DFFD33418F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC7F51F1FEA3911FA0247EE.text	67621F13FFC7F51F1FEA3911FA0247EE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia clusioides subsp. tiebaghiensis N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia clusioides subsp. tiebaghiensis N. Snow, subsp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 7; 8H)</p><p>Leaf blades flat, 9.5-18.0 × 3.0- 6.5 cm, narrowly elliptic. Inflorescence 5.0- 6.5 cm.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov., Dôme de Tiébaghi (Pente ouest), 400 m, 25.IV.1976, MacKee 31129 (holo-, P [P00402733]; iso-, NOU [NOU030917]) .</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov., Pente sud-ouest du Dôme de Tiebaghi, 300-500 m, 9.V.1966, MacKee 14935 (BISH, CHR n.v., MO, P[P02089851], WELTU n.v.) ; Massif de Tiébaghi, c. 12 air-km NW of Koumac, 8.XI.1980, McPherson 3323 (BISH, BRI n.v., MO[MO-3225918], NOU [NOU029550]) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00402733.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — From the type locality.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Massif de Tiébaghi (Fig. 7); in creekside forests and degraded maquis over ultramafics, c. 300- 500 m. Flowering April; fruiting April through November.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC7F51F1FEA3911FA0247EE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC7F51E1CEC3CF3FDC941AF.text	67621F13FFC7F51E1CEC3CF3FDC941AF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia colnettiana (Guillaumin) N. Snow	<div><p>Gossia colnettiana (Guillaumin) N. Snow</p><p>(Figs 6; 12A-D)</p><p>Austrobaileya 8: 180 (2010). — Eugenia colnettiana Guillaumin, Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, sér. B, Bot. 8: 242 (1962). — Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov ., Mt Colnett, 1370 m, 13.IX.1951, Hürlimann 1973 (holo-, P [P00602541]; iso: Z [Z-000050851]).</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Based on the type locality.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Mt Colnett and Mt Panié (Fig. 6); forests and forested slopes, presumably over metamorphics, 1000-1500 m. Flowering September through November; fruiting confirmed for early May, but likely extending into mid June or longer.</p><p>SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov. Mt. Colnett, 1000 m, 27.X.2003, McPherson 18973 et al. (MO); Mt. Colnett, forested eastern slopes, 1000 m, 29.X.2003, McPherson 19021 (MO) ; ibid. loco, 29.X.2003, MacKee 19062 (MO); ibid. loco, 1250-1500 m, 31.X.2003, McPherson 19108 (BISH, KSP [KSP004707], MO, NOU [NOU004355]) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.77083&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.586102" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.77083/lat -20.586102)">Mont Panié</a>, 20°35’09.96”S, 164°46’14.99”E, 1300 m, 5. V.2007, Munzinger 4337 et al. (NOU [NOU 21487], P[P06668691]) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P06668691.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs or trees</p><p>1- 5 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete, surface smooth; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 2-2.8 mm, terete; blades 2.0- 6.5 × 1.2-3.5 cm, elliptic, base rounded, surface flat, margin flat to somewhat revolute, apex obtuse to slightly acute, midnerve above sulcate, secondary veins above flush, oil glands of lower surface common, sometimes faint.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>(2.0-) 3.5-7.5 cm, of monads, simple cymes, or few-flowered racemes, terminal or axillary along upper nodes; pedicels 5-30 mm; extrafloral bracts leafy if present.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>c. 3.5 mm, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, glabrescent to sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>Campanulate, 4-5 × 4.5-5 mm, sometimes slightly ribbed, more or less sericeous; ovary apex hairy.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 3.5-5 mm, broadly ovate, sparsely ciliate on margins, glabrous above, glabrous to sparsely sericeous below, greenish-white (in vivo).</p><p>Petals</p><p>8-13 × 6-8 mm, glabrous above and below,minutely ciliate apically.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>8-14 mm; anther sacs 0.6-0.8 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>11-16 mm, sparsely hairy at base.</p><p>Fruit</p><p>Not seen but said to be greenish when young (e.g., Munzinger 4337).</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>The species closely resembles G. kuakuensis, but the latter has a glabrous hypanthium and occurs from 100-600 m in areas farther west or south, whereas G. colnettiana has a sericeous hypanthium and occurs at 1000 m or above.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC7F51E1CEC3CF3FDC941AF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC6F51E1F993931FBC8438E.text	67621F13FFC6F51E1F993931FBC8438E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia conduplicata N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia conduplicata N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 6; 12E-G)</p><p>Resembling Gossia diversifolia except that much to most of the blade itself is conduplicate, and it lacks the winged branchlets of G. diversifolia .</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=165.33333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.94361" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 165.33333/lat -20.94361)">North Prov</a>., <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=165.33333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.94361" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 165.33333/lat -20.94361)">Poindimié</a>, 165°19’59.988’’E, 20°56’36.996’’S, 4.VIII.1967, MacKee 17222 (holo-, P [missing] ; iso-, P[P00781068], BISH[fragment], NOU[- NOU029074], WELTU).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00781068.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — In reference to the partially to strongly folded (conduplicate) leaf blades.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Known only from the type collection at or near Poindimié (Fig. 6) in humid forests at 50 meters. Flowering unknown; fruiting in April.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs</p><p>To 3 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 1.5-2.5 mm, flattened to broadly sulcate above; blades 2.0-3.0 × 1.2-2.0 cm, ovate, base rounded but conspicuously conduplicate above petiole (up to or more than half the length), surface moderately to strongly undulate, apex acute, midnerve above flush to slightly sulcate, secondary veins not raised above, oil glands absent from lower surface.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>A monad or simple cyme, axillary and terminal, sometimes nodding apically; extrafloral bracts absent.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>c. 1 mm, narrowly elliptic, glabrous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>c. 3 × 3 mm, campanulate, surface smooth, glabrous.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 4(-5), 1.2-2.2 mm, broadly rounded, glabrous above and below, green.</p><p>Petals</p><p>Unknown.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>Not seen, estimate of c. 80.</p><p>Style</p><p>Not seen; ovary apex sparsely hairy.</p><p>Fruit</p><p>4.5-5.5 × 4.5-5.5 mm, globular, base rounded, green (immature) to red (mature); seed 1.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>This poorly known species is diagnosed by its strongly conduplicate leaves with undulate margins, and efforts to relocate it should be a high priority. The calyx lobes in fruit are reflexed in the one known specimen, unlike the more common condition of ascending to erect lobes. The similar species G. diversifolia has winged branchlets. Gossia conduplicata sp. nov. differs from G. bourailensis sp. nov. by its more undulate leaf margin and narrowly acute leaf apex. The base of the leaf blade in Gossia katepahiensis can be conduplicate, but only slightly so. The type specimen of Gossia diversifolia was collected from Balade, farther north along the eastern coast from Poindimié, the one known locality of G. conduplicata sp. nov. Further study is needed to better understand the differences of these two taxa.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC6F51E1F993931FBC8438E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC8F5101F8C3FFCFAF64150.text	67621F13FFC8F5101F8C3FFCFAF64150.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia conspicua (Vieill. ex Guillaumin) N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia conspicua (Vieill. ex Guillaumin) N. Snow, comb. nov.</p><p>(Figs 12H-K; 14)</p><p>Myrtus conspicua Vieill. ex Guillaumin, Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 85: 631 (1939). — Austromyrtus conspicua (Guillaumin) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 505 (1941). — Gossia alaternoides (Brongn. &amp; Gris) var. conspicua (Vieill. ex Guillaumin) N. Snow, Austrobaileya 8: 180 (2010).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Montagne de Ouatendé près Gatope, E.Vieillard 2618 (holo-, P [P00602574]; iso-, G[G00341336, image seen], GH[GH00255460], P[P00462848, P00462849]).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00602574.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Derivation uncertain.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Southeast on Grande Terre (Fig. 14) in maquis over ultramafics, c. 800-1350 m, and from the northwest at Oua Tilou and Point d’As; flowering December to May; fruiting confirmed January through November.</p><p>SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. North Prov., Vallée supérieure de la Riv. Voh, 24.IV.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 12105 (P[P00462818], US, Z); Versant N de l’Oua Tilou, 14.IV.1951, Guillaumin &amp; Baumann-Bodenheim 12361 (P[P00462819], RSA, US, Z) ; Slopes of Mt Koniambo, 400-800 m, 31.III.1956, MacKee 4264 (P[P00462839]) ; Mt. Koniambo, 400 m, 5.I.1961, MacKee 7965 (CANB, P[P00462840], US) ; Crête Sud du Mont Taom, 1000 m, 31.VII.1981, MacKee 39391 (NOU [NOU028914], P[P00462842]). — South Prov., Sommet W du Mt. Humboldt, 1400 m, 21.IX.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 15430 (A, BRI, P[P00459521], US, Z); Mont Oua tendé, 1868, without collector, (P[P00462846]); Crête de la Montagne des Sources, 8.III.1951, Hürlimann 1002 (A, P[P00462824], US, Z) ; Sommet Point d’As, 19.XI.1971, Jaffré 535 (NOU [NOU028908], P[P00462830]) ; Crête de la Montagne des Sources, 1000 m, 13.III.1951, MacKee 2237 (P[P00462836]) ; Plateau below Montagne des Sources, 800 m, 23.IX.1956, MacKee 5328 (L, P[P05221714]) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=166.535&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.962778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 166.535/lat -21.962778)">Mont Kouakoué</a>, south of summit, forest above creek, 21°57’46”S, 166°32’06”E, 1200 m, 9. V.2006, McPherson 19407 et al. (KS-P[KSP004706], MO, NOU [NOU017142], P[P06668975]) ; Mont Kouakoué, 1250-1350 m, 30.IV.2006, Pillon 396 et al. (MO[MO-04860792], NOU [NOU012051], P[P06668688]) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=166.54279&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.966946" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 166.54279/lat -21.966946)">Mont Kouakoué</a>, 21°58’1”S, 166°32’34”E, 1044 m, 12.I.2002, Tronchet 604 (MO[MO-04796930], NOU [NOU004501], P[P00354719]) .</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs</p><p>0.2-1.5 m.</p><p>Internodes</p><p>Mostly &lt;5 mm near tips of branchlets.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete, shortly tomentose on emergence but becoming increasingly glabrous.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Stiffly coriaceous, 2-4 per node; petioles 1.5-3.1 mm, sulcate above throughout; blades (1.5-)2.0- 3.1 cm, broadly linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, base cuneate, margin strongly recurved throughout, apex retuse, midnerve above sulcate proximally becoming flush distally, the secondary (and less frequently) tertiary veins somewhat raised, oil glands of lower surface present, somewhat sparse and obscure.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>Less than 1 cm (including flower), pedicels 3.5-6.0 mm, monads axillary, extrafloral bracts absent.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>2.6-4.0 mm, linear, soon deciduous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>3-4 mm, obconic, smooth, lanate; ovary apex indumentum unknown.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 1.6-2.1 mm, broadly triangular to narrowly oblong, lanate. Petals and stamens not seen.</p><p>Style</p><p>c. 3 mm (material scant), hairy proximally.</p><p>Fruits (material scant)</p><p>5-6 mm, globose, base rounded, green becoming pale purple to blackish; seeds (only 1 seen) 1 per fruit, c. 3.4 mm.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>The size, shape, texture, strong marginal recurvation, and emergent indumentum of the young leaves of Gossia conspicua comb. nov. most closely resemble Gossia virotii (which see, for details). Although subtle, the nodes can be somewhat swollen, thus resembling small platforms from which the petioles arise (e.g., Tronchet 604). One specimen with atypically narrow leaf blades (MacKee 39391) resembles Gossia virotii .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC8F5101F8C3FFCFAF64150	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFC8F5141C173A50FABE4731.text	67621F13FFC8F5141C173A50FABE4731.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia diversifolia (Brongn. & Gris) N. Snow	<div><p>Gossia diversifolia (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>(Figs 2; 6; 13A-D)</p><p>Austrobaileya 8: 180 (2010). — Eugenia diversifolia Brongn. &amp; Gris, Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 12: 180 (1865). — Myrtus diversifolia (Brongn. &amp; Gris) Guillaumin, Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 85: 631 (1938).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov. Circa Balade, Vieillard 476 (lectotype designated by Snow &amp; Veldkamp 2010: 180); second-stage lectotype, here designated, Vieillard 476 (P[P00462912]): epitype, here designated, Pancher s.n. (P[P00462909], and see comments below).</p><p>Myrtus flavida Schltr., Botanische Jahrbucher für Systematik 40 (3): Beibl. 92: 30 (1908), syn. nov. — Typus: New Caledonia. South Prov., Le Rat 2003 (type-, B? n.v.).</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Derived from the Latinization of “diversely leaved” by the authors in the protologue.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Eastern coast of Grande Terre and locally common around Baie de Tina (Fig. 6); in sclerophyllous forests among hills, sometimes behind mangroves, on black clays or soils derived from schists or calcareous schists; 5- 100 m. Flowering December through May; fruiting December through October.</p><p>SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. North Prov., Pouembout, conservatoire botanique de Tiéa, 5.IX.2000, Dagostini 209 (P[P00316468]); Pouembout, 16.II.1972, MacKee 25012 (NOU [NOU028889]) ; Pouembout, 16.IV.1981, MacKee 38948 (NOU [NOU028896]) ; Creek hervouet (propriété Johnson), 10.X.2004, Munzinger 1866 (MO[MO-6175968], NOU [NOU006339], P[P06668680]) ; Poya, forêt de Nekoro, 28.IX.1988, Veillon 6896 (NOU [NOU028902]) ; Poya, forêt de Neoni, 29. VI.1989, Veillon 7054 (NOU [NOU028897]) ; Poya, propriété Johnston, 10-20 m, 6. V.1998, Veillon 8096 (BISH, NOU [NOU028904], P[P00467803]). — South Prov., Nouméa, 1868- 1870, Balansa 126 (A, G, P[P00462889, P00462890, P00462891]) ; Baie de Prony, Herbarium L. Roterau s.n. (P[P00500668]) ; Baie de Tina, 18. V.1985, Hoff 905 (NOU [NOU028906]) ; Baie de Tina, 1. VI.1974, Jaffré 1303 (NOU [NOU028894], P[P0462898, P0462890]) ; Baie de Tina, 9.IX.1988, Jaffré 2988 (NOU [NOU028905]) ; Parc forestier de Nouméa, 11.VII.1992, Jaffré 3167 (NOU [NOU028893]) ; Nouméa, parc forestier, 19.III.1993, Jaffré 3228 (NOU [NOU053230]) ; Mt. Dzumac, 9.X.1909, Le Rat 547 (P[P00462900, P00462901]) ; Forêt de Magenta, Le Rat 2085 (A, P[P004629802]) ; Route de la prise d’eau, Dumbéa, IX.1904, Le Rat 2269 (P[P00462903]) ; Port Despointes, 17.IV.1956, Mac-Kee 4420 (A, L, P[P00462904]) ; Montravel, parc forestier, 30 m, 2.III.1965, MacKee 12178 (NOU [NOU028892], P[P00462905]) ; MacKee 12412, Montravel, parc forestier, 50 m, 9.IV.1965 (MO[MO-5813360], NOU [NOU028891]) ; Nouméa, Baie de Tina, 16.III.1972, MacKee 25151 (NOU [NOU028890]) ; Baie de Tina, 24.III.1974, MacKee 28365 (NOU [NOU028895]) ; Nouméa: Baie de Tina, 3.X.1974, MacKee 29369 (NOU [NOU028898], P[P02089820]) ; Nouméa: Baie Tina, 4.III.1975, MacKee 29834 (NOU [NOU028901]) ; Nouméa: Baie de Tina, 20.II.1976, Mac-Kee 30715 (NOU [NOU 02899]) ; Rivage SE Baie La Conception, 2.IV.1981, MacKee 38895 (NOU [NOU028900]) ; Baie de Tina, 12.II.1988, MacKee 43897 (BRI, MO[MO-6751078], NOU [NOU053243], P[P02089873]) ; Baie Tina, 10-15 m, 16.X.1990, Müller 54 (P[P04682695]) ; Montravel Jardin Botanique, 19. VI.1965, Schmid 351 (NOU [NOU028907]) ; Bois de Port Desfontes (Nouméa), X.1942, Virot 794 (P[P00500654]) ; Bois de Port Desfointes (Nouméa), 14.XI.1942, Virot 817 (A, P[P00462915, P00462916]) ; Bois de Port Desfointes, 13.XII.1942, Virot 918 (A, MO[MO-04856944], P[P00462918, P00462919]). — Ab loco. 1868, Balansa 416a (Z[Z-000050493]); Balansa 3400 (P[P00462894, P00462893]); Baudouin s.n. (P[P00462895]); Deplanche 211 (P[P00462897]); Pancher 50 (P[P00462925]); Herbarium Pancher s.n. (G[G00340971, G00340966]); Vieillard 476 (P[P00462913]).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00462909.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Erect shrubs or treelets</p><p>1.5- 4 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>4-angled; internodes mostly&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 0.8-1.7 mm, round to flattened above; blades 1.8-3.1 × 0.9-2.1 cm, ovate to widely ovate, base rounded to cordate, surface flat or slightly irregular, margin slightly undulate, apex obtuse to somewhat acute, midnerve above flush, secondary veins sometimes prominent above, oil glands of lower surface common but faint (typically most abundant along margin).</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>0.6-1.5 cm, of monads (mostly) or simple cymes, terminal or axillary, extrafloral bracts (at base of pedicel) scale-like.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>0.5-0.8 mm, narrowly ovate to ovate, glabrous to sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>1.4-2 × 2.0- 2.5 mm, campanulate, surface smooth (or minutely ribbed in fruit), glabrous; ovary apex shortly hairy.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 0.8-1.8 mm, broadly rounded, glabrous above and below, green.</p><p>Petals c. 3.5 × 3-4 mm, glabrous above and below, white.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>2-4 mm, white; anther sacs c. 0.5 mm, pale yellowish.</p><p>Style</p><p>c. 3.5 mm, sparsely sericeous below.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>5-8 × 5-7 mm, globular, base rounded, green turning reddish to black; seeds 2.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>The combination of 4-angled branchlets, cordate or rounded leaf bases, and the tapered fruit base easily diagnose the species vegetatively from congenerics. The tapered fruit bases can also occur in G. vieillardii . The images of living material were taken in a semi-manicured area (with mowed lawn) in the Parc Forestier de Nouméa.</p><p>Among the collections Brongniart &amp; Gris (1865: 180) mentioned in the protologue (Pancher s.n., [collected in] 1862; Vieillard 462), Snow (Snow &amp; Veldkamp 2010: 182) designated Vieillard 462 as the lectotype. Since Vieillard 462 consists of two sheets (unknown to the author at the time of lectotypification), a second-stage lectotypification is provided above. Moreover, epitypification (Art. 9.9, Turland et al. 2018) is desirable given the sterile condition of the lectotype, and that Vieillard 462 at P consists of two sheets, both of which lack fertile material. At the present time, the two sheets of Pancher at P are databased as “types”, but no such indication or annotation appears on the specimens, and it is unclear at this point whether I was aware of their type status when I first annotated one of these specimens (P00462908) from Eugenia to Gossia in 2004. Among the two sheets of Pancher, one in Pancher’s hand (P00462908) indicates the specifics of the collection on the blue label (on the left), whereas the collecting year of 1862 (also in Pancher’s hand) is on the label (to the right), however this specimen also is sterile. The other specimen of Pancher (P00462909) indicates the year 1861 (printed, not written by hand) on the right-hand label, but details of the collection on the blue label to the left also are in Pancher’s hand (and are nearly identical to those of P004652908), and since this specimen has four flowers, it is selected as the epitype.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFC8F5141C173A50FABE4731	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFCCF5161CCE3CB3FE7446B1.text	67621F13FFCCF5161CCE3CB3FE7446B1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia kaalaensis N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia kaalaensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 13J-K; 17)</p><p>Petioles narrowly and deeply sulcate, but broadening distally. Leaves narrowly ovate to ovate, margin somewhat undulate, secondary and tertiary veins of both surfaces prominently raised. Sepals densely short-sericeous below.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov., Slopes of Mt Kaala, above village, 20°37’39.00”S, 164°23’12.12”S, c. 550 m, 7.X.1982, G. McPherson 4973 (holo-, P [P00758090]; iso-, BISH [fragment]; MO[MO-3211396]; NOU [NOU030910]).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. North Prov. Mont Kaala, 4.IV.1968, Bernardi 12528 (BISH [fragment], L, P [P00462920], US, Z) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.7008&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.930477" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.7008/lat -20.930477)">Voh. Massif Katépaï</a>, au bord d’une ancienne piste, 20°55’49.72”S, 164°42’02.92”E, c. 470 m, 19.IX.2016, Munzinger 7853 (leg. Scoptera) (MPU [640685], P [P02090976]). — South Prov. Kongouaou (= Koungouhaou), 650 m, 2.V.1976, Jaffré 1725 (NOU [NOU029644]); Contrefort NW Mt. Taom, 10.V.1979, MacKee 36887 (NOU [NOU029643], P [P02089830]) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.85751&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.83583" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.85751/lat -20.83583)">Crête du Oua-Tilou</a>, 20°50’08.99”S, 164°51’27.00”E, 850 m, 18.V.1983, Morat 7398 (NOU [NOU029645], P [P00462921]) ; Montagnes de Balade, Vieillard 484 (left branchlet on mixed collection; P [P00463007, P00602546]) ; Oua Tendé près Gatope, Vieillard 2610 (K [K001000439], P [P00462922, P00462923, P00462924]); circ. Kaala-Gomen; S slopes of Mt. Kaala, c. 500 m, 11.VIII.1968, Webster &amp; Hildreth 14719 (DAV, GH, NSW, P [P00462928]) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00758090.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — After the type locality.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Grande Terre from the northwest, where it is most common, sporadically south to Koungouhaou (Fig. 17); in maquis and scrub that grades into lowstature but dense forests, over ultramafics or graywackes, 470- 850 m. Flowering April through July; fruiting May through October.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs</p><p>0.7- 2 m.</p><p>Bark</p><p>Marbled with light and dark gray.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete to laterally compressed; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 3-5 mm, deeply sulcate; blades (4.5-)8.0-9.5 × 1.8-3.4 cm, narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate or somewhat elliptic, base cuneate (rarely almost rounded), surface flat to somewhat undulate, margin somewhat undulate, apex acute, midnerve sulcate above, secondary veins prominently raised above, oil glands of lower surface common, indistinct to prominent (and relatively large or small).</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>1.5-3.5 cm, of monads, 3-flowered cymes, or few-flowered racemes, axillary, terminal or sometimes arising from internodes, pedicels 0.3-1.3 cm; extrafloral bracts absent or scale-like.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>1-1.5 mm, linear to very narrowly obovate, glabrous to sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>c. 2-3 × c. 2.5 mm, campanulate to obconic, surface smooth, glabrous (or sparsely sericeous); ovary apex glabrous.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 1.3-2 mm, broadly ovate to broadly rounded, sericeous-tomentose above, glabrous to sparsely and very short sericeous below, drying whitish.</p><p>Petals</p><p>3.5-5 × 4-5 mm, sparsely villous above, glabrous below, shortly ciliate on edges.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>2.5-4 mm; anther sacs 0.5-0.7 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>4-5 mm, sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>c. 5-5 × 6-7 mm, subglobular to globular, base rounded; green maturing to dark reddish; seeds 2.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Several characters are diagnostic for Gossia kaalaensis sp. nov. The leaf blades (in sicco) typically are dark green, narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, apically acute, and the upper surface is frequently undulate, glossy and has prominently raised secondary veins. The petiole is deeply sulcate but flattens and broadens distally. The hypanthium often has relatively large, pustular oil glands interspersed among much smaller glands. It most closely resembles Gossia vieillardii, but leaves of that species typically are a lighter shade of green. Gossia kaalaensis sp. nov. may also resemble G. pancheri, but the latter has a sericeous hypanthium.</p><p>A specimen with a similar leaf shape and texture to G. kaalaensis sp. nov. is atypical by the much smaller length of its leaves (Munzinger 7577 [MPU620440]); its placement at the current time is unresolved.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFCCF5161CCE3CB3FE7446B1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFCEF5161F973C32FBEE428E.text	67621F13FFCEF5161F973C32FBEE428E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia katepahiensis N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia katepahiensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 14; 15A-C)</p><p>Resembling Gossia kuakuensis but differing by its narrower bracteoles; similar to Gossia vieillardii but having rounded leaf bases; and differing from Gossia bourailensis sp. nov. by the broadly obtuse to rounded apex of the leaf.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.6925&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.9328" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.6925/lat -20.9328)">Grande Terre</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.6925&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.9328" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.6925/lat -20.9328)">North Prov.</a>, Mt. Katépahié, above Voh, 20°55’58.08”S, 164°41’33.00”E, 4.V.1983, c. 350 m, McPherson 5690 (holo-, P [P00402743]; iso-, BISH [fragment], BRI, MO[MO-3183836], NOU [NOU030911], NSW, WELTU [2 sheets]).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.7047&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.923988" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.7047/lat -20.923988)">North Prov.</a>, Voh, Massif Katépahï, en haut d’un sentier de randonnée, 20°55’26.36”S, 164°42’16.94”E, c. 530 m, 19.IX.2016, Munzinger 7867 (leg. Scoptera) (MPU [MPU640688]; P[P02090939]) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00402743.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Derived from the type locality.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Known from two collections on Mt. Katépahie (Fig. 14) from forest remnants over ultramafics from approximately 350-530 meters. Flowering in May; fruiting in August.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Rounded shrubs to trees</p><p>1.5- 3 m.</p><p>Bark</p><p>Light gray to almost white and longitudinally furrowed.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete, bright red on emergence; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 2.5-4 mm, sometimes slightly sulcate; blades 2.2-5.5 × 1.5-3.5 cm, elliptic, base rounded, surface flat, margin slightly recurved and surface slightly undulate, apex rounded to broadly obtuse (and sometimes slightly retuse), midnerve sulcate above, secondary veins faintly visible above and below, oil glands of lower surface faint and moderately common.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>Of monads or elongated racemes, axillary and terminal; extrafloral bracts absent or scale-like.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>1-2 mm, narrowly obovate, glabrous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>2.5-3 × 2-3 mm, obconic, surface smooth, glabrous to sparsely sericeous; ovary apex glabrous.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 1- 1.5 mm, broadly rounded, sparsely sericeous near base above, glabrous to sparsely sericeous below, green.</p><p>Petals</p><p>4-5 × 3-4 mm, ciliate on margins, glabrous below.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>3-5 mm; anther sacs 0.4-0.6 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>c. 5 mm, sericeous.</p><p>Fruits (young)</p><p>7-8 mm, ellipsoid and somewhat tapered at the base, light green but beginning to darken; seeds up to 2.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>This species resembles several others in Gossia . Its leaf apex is rounded to broadly obtuse (and sometimes slightly retuse), and the secondary veins are visible in sicco. Mature inflorescences typically are longer than the adjacent leaves, and the inflorescence and pedicels are relatively thin and often somewhat bowed. In addition, the base of the petals is thicker than most other species.</p><p>A specimen I annotated in 2004 with this name (P[P00402742]) likely represents a different taxon, given its cuneate leaf bases and shorter inflorescences; its identity is uncertain from the digital image.</p><p>A specimen allegedly from Tahiti by an unknown collector (Anonymous, « Commun à Tahiti » ([P05094318])) was identified (but not annotated) by some other person. Although its relatively large inflorescence resembles that of the type specimen, its different leaf morphology and the distance between Tahiti and New Caledonia (c. 4700 km) together make such an identification unlikely.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFCEF5161F973C32FBEE428E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFCEF5291CC23816FBBD4050.text	67621F13FFCEF5291CC23816FBBD4050.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia kuakuensis (Baker f.) N. Snow 2010	<div><p>Gossia kuakuensis (Baker f.) N. Snow</p><p>(Figs 14; 15D-H; 16A-C)</p><p>Austrobaileya 8: 181 (2010). — Psidium kuakuense Baker f., Journal of the Linnaean Society, Botany 45: 318 (1921). — Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov., Kuakué (= Kouakoué), 13.V.1914, Compton 930 (holo-, BM [BM000581652]).</p><p>Psidium floribundum Vieill . ex Guillaumin, nomen nudum, Annales du Musée colonial de Mareille, sér. 2, 9: 150 (1911). — See discussion in Snow &amp; Veldkamp (2010: 181) regarding this unpublished name.</p><p>Eugenia cataractarum Guillaumin, Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 85: 636 (1939). — Austromyrtus cataracarum (Guillaumin) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 503 (1941).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Secus ripus torentium prope Touho, Vieillard 2171 (lecto-, P [P00602576] designated here; isolecto-, G, GH[GH00071539], P[P00751830]).</p><p>SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. North Prov., Näräjaa, Ponerihouen, 550 m, 26.III.2016, Fleurot 226 (P[P01168448]); Pente Sud du Mt. Kaala, 12. VI.1965, MacKee 12758 (NOU [NOU029641], P[P00462879, P00462880]); Pente Sud-Ouest du Mt. Kaala, 300-600 m, 10.IX.1967, MacKee 17490 (NOU [NOU029640], P[P02089978, P05094102); Massif de Tion-non, 800-900 m, 21.III.1968, MacKee 18516 (P[P02089982] ; Col d’Amieu-Ouambéa, 500-600 m, 31.III.1970, MacKee 21745 (NOU [NOU030905]); Bord des torrents, Wagape, Vieillard 2171bis (BISH, P[P00462881, P00462882]); Bord des torrents à “Poinendu”, Vieillard 2218 (G[G00340965, G00340992, images seen], MEL n.v., P, 2 sheets) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P02089978.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — From the type locality.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Scattered on Grande Terre (Fig. 14); in maquis on ultramafics or edges of dense moist forests over sedimentary volcanics, 100-600 m (but more data needed; see remarks). Flowering March through June; fruiting confirmed only for September.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs or trees</p><p>1- 6 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete to compressed (the older branchlets with dark, rectangular flakes); internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 1.5-4 mm (or leaves sessile), sometimes slightly sulcate; blades (3-)4.5-9.0 × 3.0-6.0 cm, elliptic to broadly elliptic, base rounded to cordate or clasping, surface flat to somewhat creased along midvein, margin flat to slightly irregular, apex obtuse, midnerve above flush to slightly sulcate at base, secondary veins flush above, oil glands of lower surface dense but indistinct.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>2.5-8.5 cm, a dichasium, raceme or panicle, terminal or axillary; pedicels (1.5-) 4-11 mm; extrafloral bracts leaflike.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>1.5-4.5 mm, linear to narrowly elliptic, glabrous to sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>Obconic, 2.3-2.6 × (2-)3.4-3.8(-4.2) mm wide, surface smooth, glabrous; ovary apex glabrous.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 1.5-3 mm, broadly rounded, ciliate but otherwise glabrous, green.</p><p>Petals</p><p>4-6 × 3-5 mm, white, sparsely ciliate on margins.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>2.5-4.5(-6) mm; anther sacs c. 0.5 mm. Style 3-5(-6.5) mm, glabrous to sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>5.5-10 × 5.5-10 mm, subglobular to globular, base rounded, green when young (mature color unconfirmed); seeds 1-4.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>The bark of branchlets and main trunk typically breaks into dark rectangular flakes, and the branches reportedly can be pendant. Some leaves on the holotype are atypically clasping. The peduncles in the inflorescence are glabrous but can be prominently striate.</p><p>We tentatively here include Fleurot 226 (Fig. 16A-C in Näräjaa, Ponérihouen), although its leaves are sessile and slightly clasping, whereas other specimens have short petioles, and its fruits have 4-merous calyx lobes. Study of herbarium vouchers (unavailable before submission) will help determine its proper placement.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFCEF5291CC23816FBBD4050	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFF1F5281CF73B53FEB3436E.text	67621F13FFF1F5281CF73B53FEB3436E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia mandjeliaensis N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia mandjeliaensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 15I-J; 17)</p><p>The leaves resemble those of Gossia vieillardii, but the oil glands on the lower leaf surface of G. mandjeliaensis sp. nov. are conspicuous and dense and the base of its hypanthium somewhat rounded.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov., Forested slopes below radio tower of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.525&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.39972" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.525/lat -20.39972)">Mandjélia</a>, c. 5 air-km W of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.525&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.39972" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.525/lat -20.39972)">Pouebo</a>, 20°23’58.99”S, 164°31’30.00”E, 12.IV.1980, McPherson 2551 (holo-, P [P00402744]; iso-, BISH, MO[MO-3226084], NOU [NOU030914], WELTU).</p><p>PARATYPI. — McPherson 6327, Mandjélia, above <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.51805&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.405111" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.51805/lat -20.405111)">Pouébo</a>, 20°24’18.40”S, 164°31’05.00”E, c. 650 m, 21.II.1984 (MO [MO-3225874], NOU [NOU029639], P [P00462929], WELTU).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00402744.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — After the type locality.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Known only from Mt. Mandjélia (Fig. 17); forested slopes over metamorphic rock, 600- 650 m. Flowering February through April; fruiting period unknown.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Trees</p><p>To 10 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 2-3 mm, sometimes slightly sulcate; blades (1.5-)3.0-6.0 × (-1.0)2.0-4.0 cm, narrowly elliptic to broadly elliptic, base cuneate (or occasionally rounded), surface flat, margin flat, apex obtuse to acute, midnerve above sulcate near base but becoming flush distally, secondary veins faint and flush above and below, oil glands dense but typically indistinct above and below.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>Up to 3.5 cm, of monads, simple cymes, or few-flowered racemes, axillary or terminal, pedicels 0.1-0.8 cm; extrafloral bracts absent or scale-like.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>1.5-3 mm, linear, very narrowly elliptic, or narrowly obovate, more or less sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>3-4 × 3-4 mm, campanulate, surface smooth, sericeous; ovary apex sparsely hairy.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 1.3-1.9 mm, broadly rounded, glabrous above, sericeous near base below and ciliate on edges, green.</p><p>Petals</p><p>4-5 × 4-5 mm, glabrous above, glabrous to sparsely sericeous below.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>3-5 mm; anther sacs 0.5-0.6 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>c. 5 mm, sericeous at base.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>Dimensions unknown, said to be green, mature fruit unknown; seeds not seen.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Gossia mandjeliaensis sp. nov. differs from other New Caledonian congenerics by subtle traits, including the dense but small oil glands on the leaf surfaces; a glabrous to slightly hairy staminal disk; sericeous indumentum on the pedicels, abaxial surface of calyx lobes, and style; and faint abaxially secondary leaf veins. Gossia colnettiana is somewhat similar, but has fewer oil glands abaxially, raised abaxial secondary veins, ferrugineous sericeous hairs in flower, and a hairy staminal disk.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFF1F5281CF73B53FEB3436E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFF0F52B1E703876FD28426F.text	67621F13FFF0F52B1E703876FD28426F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia ngaensis N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia ngaensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 18A-C; 19)</p><p>Resembling Gossia nigripes but with longer and flatter leaf blades (margins not recurved), and without an obtuse apex.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=167.45694&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-22.654999" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 167.45694/lat -22.654999)">Grande Terre</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=167.45694&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-22.654999" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 167.45694/lat -22.654999)">South Prov.</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=167.45694&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-22.654999" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 167.45694/lat -22.654999)">Île des Pins</a>, Pic Nga near Kuto, 22°39’18.00”S, 167°27’24.98”E, c. 100 m, 14.VIII.1982, G. McPherson 4878 (holo-, MO [MO-3210881]; iso-, BISH fragment, NOU [NOU052879]).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — No images currently available.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Derived from Pic Nga, the locality of the type specimen.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Known only from the type collection from Pic Nga near Kuto on Île des Pins (Fig. 19); in scrub over ultramafics along a creek, c. 100 m. Flowering August; fruiting August.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrub</p><p>To 2 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete to strongly compressed; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 3-5 mm, sometimes slightly sulcate; blades (2.8-)5.0-8.3 × 1.2-4.0 cm, elliptic, base cuneate, surface flat, margin flat to slightly revolute, apex broadly obtuse and sometimes slightly retuse, midnerve sulcate in lower half, secondary veins flush to slightly raised above, oil glands of lower surface dense and prominent.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>Of single flowers or simple cymes, terminal or axillary; extrafloral bracts absent.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>Unknown.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>4.5-7 × 4-5 mm wide (in fruit), obconic, surface smooth, glabrous; ovary apex glabrous.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 1.7-2.5 mm, broadly triangular to broadly rounded, sparsely short ciliate near apex, greenish.</p><p>Petals</p><p>c. 5 × 5 mm, glabrous above, glabrous to sparsely sericeous below.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>4-6 mm; anther sacs 0.4-0.6 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>c. 5 mm, sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>5.5-7 × 5-7.5 mm, globular, base rounded, green (immature); seeds 1-2.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Gossia ngaensis sp. nov. allegedly was photographed on Pic Nga during September 2017 (G. Gâteblé pers. comm. 2018), but no voucher was taken and its identification was not confirmed. The species most closely resembles G. nigripes (see key for differences). It also resembles G. mandjeliaensis sp. nov., but its hypanthium is sericeous and it occurs on Massif du Panié on the northeast part of Grande Terre.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFF0F52B1E703876FD28426F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFF3F52C1F963971FDA94533.text	67621F13FFF3F52C1F963971FDA94533.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia nigripes (Guillaumin) N. Snow	<div><p>Gossia nigripes (Guillaumin) N. Snow</p><p>(Figs 17; 18D, E)</p><p>Austrobaileya 8: 181 (2010). — Myrtus nigripes Guillaumin, Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 85: 632 (1939). — Austromyrtus nigripes (Guillaumin) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 505 (1941).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Montagnes situées au Sud de Canala, 20.XI.1869, B. Balansa 2085 (holo-, P [P00602577]; iso-, P[P00462930, P00462931]).</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Derivation from the Latin niger (black) and pes (foot) in reference to the petioles (foot of the blade), which dry dark brown to blackish.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Mt Mandjélia and areas to the north and from the type collection south of Canala (Fig. 17); over micaschistes and forests, sometimes as a dominant on montane ridges, c. 500-1000 m. Flowering February and March; fruiting June through December.</p><p>SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov. Pouébo, 600 m, 24.VII.1974, MacKee 28968 (P[P02089864]); Mt Mandjélia; 19.XII.1981, McPherson 4509 (BISH [fragment], MO, NOU [NOU029638], NSW, P[P05094545], PTBG, WELTU); above Ouegoa along forest road, 18.VIII.1981, Mueller-Dombois 81081810 (BISH); ibid. loco, Mueller-Dumbois 81081831 (BISH); Col d’Amoss, 20°18’22”S, 164°23’51”E, 14.X.2002, Tronchet 364 et al. (K n.v., MO, NOU, P[P00354952]); Haut Diahot, Tendé, 600 m, 30. VI.1982, MacKee 40566 (MO, NOU [NOU029624], P[P02089875]) .</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P02089875.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs or trees</p><p>3- 8 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 2.5-4 mm, terete; blades 2.0- 4.5(-4.8) × 0.8-1.7(-2.4) cm, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, base narrowly cuneate, surface flat, margin flat, apex obtuse, midnerve above sulcate proximally becoming flush apically, secondary veins not visible above, oil glands of lower surface dense but indistinct.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>Of monads or 3-flowered cymes, axillary, pedicels to 4.5 cm; extrafloral bracts absent.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>c. 2 mm, narrowly ovate to ovate, glabrous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>2.8-3.2 × c. 3 mm, urceolate, surface smooth, glabrous; ovary apex glabrous.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 4 (5 occasionally), 1-2 mm, broadly ovate to rounded, glabrous above and below, green.</p><p>Petals</p><p>Not seen.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>3-4.5 mm; anther sacs 0.6-0.8 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>4.5-5 mm, hairy to near apex.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>5-9 × 6-11 mm, subglobular to globular, base rounded, green becoming reddish then bluish-black; seeds 2-3, irregularly hemispherical.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Within Gossia the species is distinguished by leaves that are nearly all 4 cm or less long and distinctly yellowish-green, with dark maroon petioles that dry to nearly black.</p><p>The species can resemble Gossia vieillardii, but that species has longer leaf blades on average, longer inflorescences, and fruits that often taper distinctly at the base. Additional data from flowering material are needed.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFF3F52C1F963971FDA94533	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFF4F52C1F8C3EBDFB0840D0.text	67621F13FFF4F52C1F8C3EBDFB0840D0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia ouazangouensis N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia ouazangouensis N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 17; 18F-I)</p><p>The species can be distinguished by its thin whitish calyx lobes, glabrous hypanthium, and a mostly terminal to subterminal infloresence that significantly exceeds the length of the leaves. It somewhat resembles Gossia kaalaensis sp. nov., but the adaxial leaf surface of the latter is glossy and has prominently raised secondary veins and an acute apex, and thicker and greenish calyx lobes. In contrast, the adaxial leaf surface of G. ouazangouensis sp. nov. is matte with flush secondary veins and an obtuse apex and thin, whitish or whitish-green calyx lobes.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.46559&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.74639" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.46559/lat -20.74639)">North Prov</a>., pente Ouest de Mt Ouazangou, 20°44’47.00”S, 164°27’56.16”E, 19.VI.1967, MacKee 16927 (holo-, P [P00751831]; iso-, BISH[fragment], NOU[NOU030913]).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre. North Prov., Poum, 30 m, 27.IV.2004, G. Dagostini 843 &amp; Nigote (NOU, P[P05121896, P05121897], WELTU n.v.) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=164.46559&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-20.74639" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 164.46559/lat -20.74639)">Mont Ouazangou Pente Ouest</a>, 20°44’47.00”S, 164°27’56.16”E, 300-500 m, 4.III.1972, MacKee 25123 (NOU [NOU029637], P[P02089986] with dups [n.v.] to distribute to BISH, CHR, G, MO, NSW, RB, TNS]) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=166.29333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.943607" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 166.29333/lat -21.943607)">Kaala-Gomen</a>, Massif Onajiele, 20°46’07.02”S, 164°27’44.65”E, c. 100 m, 16.V.2015, Munzinger 7592 (leg. Scoptera) (MPU [MPU620439]). — South Prov., Vallée de la Tontouta, 21°56’36.99”S, 166°17’35.99”E, 0-50 m, 22.III.2006, Pillon 329 et al. (NOU [NOU011598], P[P06668689]).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00751831.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — From the type locality.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Known from the western peak of Mont Ouazangou (Massif Onajile) and Poum in the northwest, and Tontouta in the southwest (Fig. 17); in maquis on ultramafics from near sea level to 500 m. Flowering approximately April through June; fruiting unknown.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Tree-like shrubs</p><p>To 2- 5 m.</p><p>Bark</p><p>Light reddish or grayish and craking longitudinally.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 1.5-3 mm, sulcate; blades (2.5-)6.0-7.5 × 1.2-3.3 cm, ovate, base cuneate, surface flat, margin slightly revolute throughout, apex obtuse, midnerve sulcate in lower half, secondary veins mostly flush above, oil glands of lower surface common but faint.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>1.5-4.5 cm, mostly of 3-flowered cymes (infrequently of monads), axillary or terminal; extrafloral bracts absent or scale-like.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>0.9-1.2 mm, linear to narrowly elliptic, sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>2-3 × 2-3.5 mm, obconic, surface smooth, glabrous.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 1.1-2.8 mm, broadly rounded, glabrous above but ciliate on margins, glabrous below, drying whitish.</p><p>Petals</p><p>6.0-6.5 × 5-6 mm, glabrous above but ciliate on margins, glabrous below, whitish.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>4-5 mm, pinkish to the base; anther sacs c. 0.5 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>5-6 mm, sparsely villous, especially in lower half; ovary apex hairy at base of style.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>Unknown.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>The inflorescence branches on MacKee 25123 are somewhat shorter and more gracile, and the branches more reddish and with a flakier epidermis, but the leaf morphology, locality and substrate of the two collections otherwise match well. An uplaced 4-merous specimen (Munzinger 7890 [MPU640674; P020290978]) may be this species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFF4F52C1F8C3EBDFB0840D0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFF4F52E1CE23BD0FCA746D2.text	67621F13FFF4F52E1CE23BD0FCA746D2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia pancheri (Brongn. & Gris) N. Snow	<div><p>Gossia pancheri (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>(Figs 16D; 20; 21A-D)</p><p>Austrobaileya 8: 181 (2010). — Eugenia pancheri Brongn. &amp; Gris, Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 12: 180 (1865). — Austromyrtus pancheri (Brongn. &amp; Gris) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 503 (1941).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Montagnes de Yaté, Vieillard 508 (lecto- [designated by Snow &amp; Veldkamp 2010], P [P00462968]; isolecto-, P[P00462969, P00469970, P00602555]) . — Snow annotated the lectotype in 2004 but did not specify a barcode number (Snow &amp; Veldkamp 2010: 181), which at that time did not exist. One of the isolectotypes (P00602555) was annotated by the author in 2005 mistakenly as “lectotype”, instead (correctly) of “isolectotype”.</p><p>Myrtus luteo-viridis Baker f., The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 45: 312 (1921). — Austromyrtus luteo-viridis (Baker f.) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 505 (1941). — Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Ngoye Mts. to NW, Compton 1339 (holo-, BM [BM000581650], photo at BISH]).</p><p>Eugenia angustibracteolata Baker f., The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 45: 313 (1921). — Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Presqu’île Bogota, 13.V.1914, Compton 1002 (holo-, BM [BM000581654], photo at BISH).</p><p>SPECIMENS ECAMINED. — New Caledonia. North Prov., Boulinda près campement, 500 m, 23.IV.1968, Jaffré 18 (NOU, P); Massif du Koniambo, 250 m, 18.XI.1971, Jaffré 516 (NOU[NOU029667]); Massif du Koniambo, 900 m, 20.XII.1972, Jaffré 1038 (NOU [NOU 29662]); Kouaoua: Mea, 12.I.1978, Jaffré 2275 (NOU [NOU029649]) ; Mont Boulinda, pente au-dessus de la Oua-Népoua, 750-850 m, 26.VII.1967, MacKee 17177 (NOU [NOU029683]) ; Taom, Mt. Homédéboa, 800- 900 m, X.1969, MacKee 20995 (NOU [NOU029680]) ; Mont Do, 950-1020 m, X.1969, MacKee 21089 (NOU [NOU029677) ; Manambo, 500 m, 29.IX.1989, MacKee 44623 (NOU [NOU0029652], P[P02089832]) ; Poro, Kaéoua, 500 m, 17.XII.1992, MacKee 46074 (P[P02089865]) ; Contrefort Nord-Ouest du Mt. Taom, 5.X.1979, MacKee 36887 (P); Plateau de Ouazangou, 26.III.1980, MacKee 37951 (P[P02089833]) ; Mont Taom (Crête Ouest), 900 m, 8.I.1981, MacKee 38519 (NOU [NOU029650], P[P02089884]) ; Mont Taom, 900 m, 31.VII.1981, MacKee 39418 (MO, NOU [NOU029647], P[P02089883]) ; Poro, Kaseoua, 500 m, 17.XII.1992, MacKee 46074 (NOU [NOU029653], P[P02089865]) ; Mt Koniambo, c. 700 m, 13.X.1982, McPherson 5019 (MO, NOU [NOU053242]) ; Mt Koniambo, c. 550 m, 5.I.1983, McPherson 5297 (BRI, MO, NOU [- NOU029654], NSW, PTBG, WELTU) ; Mt. Colnett, 800-925 m, 2.XI.2003, McPherson 19142 (BISH, MO, NOU [NOU004366], P) ; Est du Kopeto, 900 m, 28.XI.1980, Morat 6642 (NOU [NOU029671]); Massif du Tchingou, face est, 950 m, 29.III.2001, Munzinger 563 (MO, NOU [NOU029668]); Massif du Tchingou, face est, 1000 m, 31.III.2001, Munzinger 588 (MO); Massif du Tchingou, face est, 1120 m, 31.III.2001, Munzinger 615 (MO, P); Paéoua Mt, 800-1100 m, 26.X.2010, Munzinger 6017 (MO, P). — South Prov., Pente brûlée près de la mine du “Mois de Mai”, 300 m, 13.VIII.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 15115 (A, US, Z); Canala, Presqu’île de Bogota, c. 450 m, 3.VII.1997, Dagostini 120 (NOU [NOU029675]) ; Goro-Nickel, relevé 34, 20. VI.2002, Dagostini &amp; Rigault 505 (NOU [NOU029679]) ; Goro, concession SLN “Camille”, 18. V.2002, Dagostini 615 (MO, NOU [NOU029678]) ; Col de Mouirange, forêt Desmazure, 10.III.2005, Dagostini 1050 (NOU [NOU009280]) ; Montagne des Sources, 3.XII.1992, Dawson WELTU 16573 (NOU [NOU029676], WELTU) ; Bord de la Fausse Yaté, 10.VII.1981, Hoff 3581 (NOU [NOU029659]); Dans la partie supérieure de la vallée de l’Odjijoni, 180 m, 2. VI.1951, Hürlimann 1463 (US, Z) ; Vallée latérale de la Pourina, 160 m, 4. VI.1951, Hürlimann 1482 (US, Z) ; au-dessus du campement Bernier (Montagne des Sources), 850 m, 13.XI.1951, Hürlimann 3019 (US, Z) ; Plaine des Lacs, 15.IV.1969, Jaffré 18 (NOU [NOU029660]) ; Plaine des Lacs, 15.IV.1969, Jaffré 200 (NOU [NOU029658]) ; Région de Kouaoua, 30.IX.1969, Jaffré 275 (NOU [NOU 29661]) ; Kouaoua, 30.IX.1969, Jaffré 294 (NOU [NOU029664]) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=166.5375&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.978611" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 166.5375/lat -21.978611)">Mt. Kouakoué</a>, 21°58’43”S, 166°32’15”E, 980-1050 m, 9.X.2004, Labat 3486 (K n.v., MO, NOU [NOU009917], P[P00454747], WELTU) ; 12 km S of Riv. des Pirogues, ridge overlooking Prony, 200 m, 15.X.1955, MacKee 3247 (US) ; Yaté road near barrage, 150-200 m, 6. V.1956, MacKee 4494 (L) ; Route de la Montagne des Sources, 500-700 m, 27.X.1956, MacKee 5665 (L) ; Vallée de Mamié, 200 m, 6.X.1966, MacKee 15740 (NOU [NOU029681]) ; Ouroué, 21.VII.1967, MacKee 17148 (P[P02089831]) ; Rivière du Humboldt, 800-900 m, 29.X.1967, MacKee 17838 (NOU [NOU029648]); Thio-Mt Nékandi, 1200- 1300 m, 7.XI.1967, MacKee 17925 (NOU [NOUO29862]) ; Mé Ori, Plateau sommital, 900-1000 m, 3.XII.1969, MacKee 21205 (NOU [NOU029657]) ; Vallée de la Ouinnée, 25. V.1974, MacKee 28691 (NOU [NOU029666]); Yaté, plateau au Sud du village, 300 m, 4. VI.1977, MacKee 33235 (NOU [NOU029665]) ; Dalmates Les (Mouirange Col), 150 m, 29.II.1980, MacKee 37865 (NOU) [NOU029608] ); Vallée de la Ni, 100 m, 3.XII.1981, MacKee 40035 (NOU [NOU029651]); Hauteurs de Yaté, 250 m, 10.III.1985, MacKee 42493 (MO, NOU [NOU029669], P[P02089882]) ; Along old lumber road to top of Mt Mé Ori, above Katrikoin, 8.IX.1980, McPherson 3069 (BRI, MO, NOU [NOU029646], NSW, WELTU) ; Montagne des Sources, c. 700 m, 25.X.1980, McPherson 3275 (BRI, MO, NOU [NOU029663], NSW, WELTU) ; Along Nouméa-Yaté road, near descent towards Yaté, 400 m, 8.VII.1981, McPherson 3894 (MO, NOU [NOU 20670], WELTU) ; Upper reaches of valley Rivière des Pirogues, N of Nouméa-Yaté road, c. 300 m, 12.XII.1981, McPherson 4451 (MO, NOU [NOU029656], NSW, WELTU) ; by Fausse Yaté River, 23.XI.1982, McPherson 5185 (BISH, MO) ; Forested slopes above a tributary of the Rivière Ni, 750-770 m, 12.XI.2003, McPherson 19230 (BISH, MO, NOU) ; Me Adeo piste en direction du Menazi, 24.III.1988, Morat 8008 (NOU [NOU029655]) ; Sommet du Col de Yaté, 26.VII.1965, Schmid 506 (NOU [NOU029672]) ; Mine Pauline, vers 450 m, 18.III.1968, Veillon 1648 (NOU [NOU029673]) ; Route vers Prony, après Col de Crève-Coeur, 14.X.1968, Veillon 1859 (NOU [NOU029674], P[P00462967, P05094569], WELTU). — Ab loco. Deplanche 530, 1861 (P); Deplanche 531, 1861 (P); Deplanche 64172, 1861 (P).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P02089884.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Named for Jean Armand Isidore Pancher (1814‒1877), French botanist who worked in New Caledonia.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Widespread on Grande Terre (Fig. 20); in maquis, forsest edges, and humid forests, often on ultramafics, 150-1300 m. Flowering throughout the year; fruiting mostly December through July.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs or trees</p><p>1.5- 10 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete to compressed, surface developing small dark rectangular flakes; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 2-6.5 mm, sulcate; blades 4.0-8.5 × 1.7-3.8 cm, elliptic, base cuneate, surface flat, margin slightly revolute, apex obtuse or retuse, midnerve above sulcate, secondary veins above raised prominently, oil glands of lower surface dense (and of uniform size), prominent.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>2-5.5(-8) cm, pedicels (1.5-) 5-9 mm, a simple cyme, raceme, or panicle, terminal or axillary; extrafloral bracts leafy.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>1.3-2 mm, linear to narrowly elliptic, sparsely to densely sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>c. 3 mm × 3-3.5 mm, campanulate, surface smooth, sericeous to densely sericeous; ovary apex densely tomentose.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 1.3-2.5 mm, broadly rounded to almost truncate, sericeous to densely sericeous above and below, green.</p><p>Petals</p><p>4.5-6 × c. 5 mm, somewhat tomentose above and below.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>2.5-4 mm; anther sacs 0.5-0.8 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>c. 4 mm, lower half villous.</p><p>Fruits (material scant) 5-6 × 5-6 mm, dark blue-black, globose, base rounded; seeds 1-2.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Gossia pancheri is the second most common member of the genus in New Caledonia after Gossia vieillardii . It is common in the southern part of Grande Terre but ranges north to Mt. Colnett.</p><p>The best distinguishing characters include the raised secondary and tertiary venation of the leaves, the thickly coriaceous texture and often glossy sheen of the upper leaf surface.</p><p>The species most closely resembles Gossia kaalaensis sp. nov., but that species has narrower leaves, a more acute leaf apex, and a glabrous ovary apex. Some specimens (e.g., MacKee 28691 and 42493) have more densely pubescent and somewhat smaller flowers, but these differences are merely quantitative.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFF4F52E1CE23BD0FCA746D2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFF6F5211E683DD2FA0041AF.text	67621F13FFF6F5211E683DD2FA0041AF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia ramiflora N. Snow 2020	<div><p>Gossia ramiflora N. Snow, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 20; 21E-I)</p><p>Diagnosed by others in the genus by the prominently undulating leaf margins and (mostly) ramiflorous inflorescences.</p><p>TYPUS. — New Caledonia. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=165.77638&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.618061" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 165.77638/lat -21.618061)">Grande Terre</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=165.77638&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-21.618061" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 165.77638/lat -21.618061)">South Prov.</a>, Farino: Forêt Mépéou, [21°37’5.016”S, 165°46’35.004”E], 500 m, 22.II.1966, MacKee 14417 (holo-, P [P00462973]; iso-, CANB, K n.v., L n.v., MO[MO2907912], NOU [NOU029712], P[P00462974], WELTU).</p><p>PARATYPI. — New Caledonia. Grande Terre, North Prov., Route Tiwaka Kono, 150 m, 30.I.1987, Jaffré 2844 (NOU [NOU029710], P[P00462983]) ; Western slope of Plateau de Dogny, 600-900 m, 10.XI.1958, MacKee 6537 (P[P00462984]) ; Along trail from Sarraméa toward Plateau de Dogny, c. 450 m, 1.IX.1982, McPherson 4924 (BISH [fragment], BRI, MO[MO-3211402], NOU [- NOU029702], P[P00462975]. — South Prov., Col d’Amieu, 500-600 m, 13.VII.1965, Bernardi 9611 (NOU [NOU029711], P[P00462982]); Col d’Amieu, Vallé de Toili, 350-400 m, 19.I.1965, MacKee 12002 (NOU [NOU029705], WELTU) ; Farino, Forêt du Pic Noir, 250 m, 21.I.1965, MacKee 12034 (WELTU) ; Col d’Amieu, 350 m, 17.III.1965, MacKee 12272 (BISH, CANB, K[K001000422], MO, NOU [NOU029716], P[P00462985, P02088629], WELTU) ; Col d’Amieu, Route du Col Toma, 400 m, 31.III.1965, MacKee 12342 (BISH, CANB [CANB00593372], K[K001000420], P[P00462986], WELTU) ; Mont Nakada pente Sud, 600 m, XI.1979, MacKee 37618 (MO[MO-6751048], NOU [NOU029714], P[P02089879]) ; N.C. Mont Yora ( Pente Sud), 700 m, 4.XII.1980, MacKee 38405 (NOU [NOU029560], MO[MO-6751050], P[P02089962, P02089963, P05094544]) ; Mont Rembai, 700 m, 31. V.1990, MacKee 44919 (NOU [NOU029706]) ; Col d’Amieu, versant Canala, 350 m, 9.XII.1992, MacKee 46043 (NOU [NOU029557], P[P02089842]) ; Forested slopes near Mt Rembai, south of Col d’Amieu, c. 500 m, 7.XI.1982, McPherson 5089 (BRI, MO[- MO-3218924], NOU [NOU029704], P[P00462976]) ; Mt Rembai region, above Col d’Amieu, c. 575 m, 7. VI.1983, McPherson 5734 (MO[MO-3211387], NOU [NOU029703], P[P00462977], PTNB, WELTU) ; Mt Rembai, N of Col d’Amieu, in the forest reserve SW of Canala-La Foa Rd, 650 m, 26.VII.1978, Phillips &amp; Schmid 3205 (NOU [NOU 53251], P[P00462978]) ; Col d’Amieu, Forêt de Rembai, 500 m, 12.XI.1980, Suprin 876 (NOU [NOU029709]) ; Région de Pouembout, au n. de “Forêt-Plate”, 26.III.1981, Suprin 1087 (BISH fragment, NOU [NOU029708]) ; Col d’Amieu, horaire de la Foa, c. 350 m, V.1973, Veillon 2894 (NOU [NOU029713], P[P00462979, P00462980, P00462981]; Col d’Amieu, Forêt Persan, vers 400 m, 15.IV.1993, Veillon 7654 (NOU [NOU029707]).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00462973.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — From the Latin ramus (branch) and flos (flower), in reference to the flowers mostly arising from naked branches (before new leaves appear on young branches or proximal along branches to existing leaves).</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Central Grande Terre, especially in the area of Col d’Amieu (Fig. 20); in humid forests over ultramafics and schistes, 150- 700 m. Flowering October through April; fruiting November through September.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs and trees</p><p>3.5- 10 m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles (1.5-) 3-6 mm, sometimes slightly sulcate; blades (4.5-)6.5-10.5 × (-2.0)3.0-5.0(-6.0) cm, elliptic to occasionally ovate, base mostly cuneate to occasionally rounded, surface undulate, margin moderately to strongly and irregularly undulate throughout, apex acute, midnerve above sulcate, secondary veins flush above and below, oil glands of lower surface dense and prominent.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>1.0- 4.5 cm, pedicels 0.2-0.8 cm, racemes or panicles, mostly naked on branches proximal to leaves or axillary, extrafloral bracts absent or scale-like.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>1-2 mm, narrowly elliptic or (less so) narrowly triangular, sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>(1.5-)2-4.5 × 2-3 mm, campanulate or rarely obconic, surface smooth, sparsely to moderately sericeous; ovary apex sparsely hairy.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 1.5-2.0 mm, broadly rounded, glabrous above, glabrous to sparsely sericeous below, green.</p><p>Petals</p><p>3.5-4.5 × 3.5-4 mm, ciliate but otherwise glabrous.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>3-5 mm; anther sacs 0.3-0.4 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>4.5-6 mm, sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>8-12 × 6.5-12 mm, subglobular to globular, base rounded, maturing yellow-green to reddish to reddish-black; seeds 4-12.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>The species is easily diagnosed by the inflorescences on naked branches and elliptic, acute leaves with undulate margins. The bark of branchlets often breaks into small rectangular flakes. Gossia ramiflora sp. nov. somewhat resembles G. clusioides, but the latter has a flat leaf margin, lowermost inflorescences axillary, and petals that are tomentose below. The species also resembles G. vieillardii, but leaves of the latter mostly have flat margins, are a lighter shade of green, and the fruit often tapers at the base.</p><p>Specimens from Pic Noir north of Farino have shorter petioles, more rounded leaf bases, somewhat shorter inflorescences, and slightly smaller flowers than average. The collection from Pouembout is a shrub with more diminutive leaves. The margins of the leaves of Munzinger 7207 are atypical in being sinuous only distally.</p><p>Two specimens previously identified as G. ramiflora sp. nov. may represent an undescribed species. They include Munzinger 7207 &amp; Cantrill (MPU395687, P 01031545) and Munzinger et al. 7261 (CANB n.v., MO-6630977, MPU028536, P01044671). They resemble G. ramiflora sp. nov., but their leaf blades are larger than normal with margins barely if at all irregular, and the blades of the former are slightly bullate in some areas. These specimens also occur over sedimentary volcanics, in contrast to the more typical substrates of volcanics and schists; the latter specimen also is south of the known range of G. ramiflora sp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFF6F5211E683DD2FA0041AF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFF9F5221C1C3931FC514691.text	67621F13FFF9F5221C1C3931FC514691.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia vieillardii (Brongn. & Gris) N. Snow	<div><p>Gossia vieillardii (Brongn. &amp; Gris) N. Snow</p><p>(Figs 19; 22; 23)</p><p>Austrobaileya 8 (2): 181 (2010). — Eugenia vieillardi Brong. &amp; Gris, Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 12: 180 (1865). — Austromyrtus vieillardii (Brongn. &amp; Gris) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 503 (1941). — Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov., Montagnes de Balade, 21°56’36.9960’’S, 166°17’35.9880’’E, Vieillard 484 (lecto-, P[P00463006], designated by Snow (Snow &amp; Veldkamp 2010: 181); isolecto-, G[G00340962], P[P00463007 specimen on left, P00463008]; see comments below).</p><p>Myrtus prolixa Baker f., The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 45: 311 (1921). — Austromyrtus prolixa (Baker f.) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 505 (1941). — Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov., Kaori forest in sheltered valley, Compton 393 (holo-, BM[BM000581653], photo BISH).</p><p>Myrtus aneityensis Guillaumin, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 12: 254 (1931). — Austromyrtus aneityensis (Guillaumin) Burret, Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 506 (1941). — Gossia aneityensis (Guillaumin) N. Snow, Novon 15: 478 (2005).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., S. J. Kajewski 810 (lecto- [designated by Snow 2005: 181], P [P0646116]). — A later worker incorrectly annotated the lectotype in 2011 as a syntype.</p><p>Eugenia heckelii Pancher &amp; Sebert ., Notice sur les Bois de la Nouvelle Calédonie: 259 (1874).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Ab. loco, Petit 52 (lectotype here designated, P [P004629880]). — Another collection, Fournie 52 (P00462997) has “type?” written in the upper right-hand corner of a label, but a later worker added “(no)” without further explanation.</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P06668679.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — Named for the French surgeon and botanist Eugène Vieillard (1816-1896), who spent many years in New Caledonia.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT AND PHENOLOGY. — Common across much of Grande Terre and some islands (Fig. 19); in maquis of humid forests or sometimes along streams, mostly over schists, micaschistes, graywackes or serpentines, (5-) 150-1000 m. Flowering January through June; fruiting known year-round.</p><p>SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. North Prov., Silva Peala, ad occidentem Pouebo, 500-600 m, 6.IV.1968, Bernardi 12609 (P, US, Z); ibid. loco, 200 m, 27-28.III.1968, Bernardi 12412 (L, P); La Guen, refuge Blaffart, 25.II.2013, Hequet 4055 (NOU, MO) ; Ouest de la Tiebaghi, 9.XI.1980, Hoff 3089 (NOU [NOU029575]); Ouest de la Tiebaghi, 9.XI.1980, Hoff 3108 (NOU); Ouraï, IX.1876, Lécard 45 (P[P05094057]) ; Forêt de Tendé (Haute Diahot), 500-600 m, 12.IX.1967, MacKee 17547 (NOU [NOU029597], WELTU ; Haut Diahot – Tendé, Expl. Frouin, 500 m, 31.III.1969, MacKee 20456 (NOU [NOU029567]) ; Pouebo, crête entre Mandjélia et Salandané, 600 m, 11.X.1969, MacKee 20819 (NOU [NOU029626]) ; Haute vallée d’Houailou, 350 m, 14.XI.1969, MacKee 21184 (NOU [NOU029715], P[P02089836]) ; Pouebo, crête entre Mandjélia et Salandané, 15.XII.1969, MacKee 21303 (NOU [NOU029568]) ; Pouebo, 600- 700 m, 12.IV.1972, MacKee 25216 (BISH, NOU [NOU029625]) ; Col d’Amos, Haute Mayavetch, 500 m, 10.VII.1972, MacKee 25688 (P[P00463024, P05094542, P05094543]) ; Col d’Amoss, Haute Mayavetch, 500 m, 24.III.1973, MacKee 26472 (P[P02089835]) ; Aoupinié, 27.VII.1974, MacKee 29030 (NOU [NOU029614], P[P02089834]) ; [Île] Balabio, Baie de Capitaine, 10-150 m, 17.IX.1974, MacKee 29317 (NOU [NOU029599]; P[P02089839]) ; Pouébo, Mandjélia, 26.IV.1976, MacKee 31172 (NOU [NOU029607], P[P02089880]) ; Haut Diahot, Paala, 400 m, 1. VI.1976, MacKee 31296 (NOU [NOU029615]) ; Haut Diahot, Tendé, 600 m, 16. V.1981, MacKee 39055 (MO, NOU [NOU029605], P[P02089876]) ; Ponérihouen, Mont Aoupinié, 700 m, 18.VIII.1981, MacKee 39468 (MO, NOU [NOU029558], [P02089881]) ; Houailou, Néaoua, 450 m, 26. VI.1982, MacKee 40496 (MO, NOU [NOU029596], P[P02089877, P02089878]) ; Vallée de Bua Hio, 22.XII.1966, Schmid 1929 (NOU [NOU029573], P[P00462994]) ; Mt. Mandjélia from Ouéga, c. 650 m, 11.VIII.2003, Snow 9214 et al. (ASU, BISH, BRI, CANB, MO, NOU [NOU000646], NY, P[P00459486], WELTU) ; Along streambed below and W of Col d’Amos, 22.X.1959, Thorne 28143 (P[P00462999]) ; Massif Ignambi, 600 m, 28.XI.1967, Veillon 1513 (NOU [NOU053250], P[P00463000], Z) ; Paagoumène, face site de l’usine, 13. V.1981, Veillon 4479 (NOU [NOU029600], P[P00463003]) ; Île Balabio, extremité sud, Bweroro, 5 m, 30.IX.1997, Veillon 8035 (BISH, NOU [NOU029602], P[P00463004]) ; Wagape, 1867, Vieillard s.n. (NSW). — South Prov., Prony, Balansa 90 (P[P05094056], Z[Z-000092713, Z-000092714, Z-000092718]) ; Mois de May, 300 m, 25. VI.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 14281 (A, Z) ; Pte Panèta – Kouré, 10. V.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 13274 (P) ; The Rivière Blanche, Forêt du Mois de Mai, 25. VI.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 14254 (MO, P, Z) ; région Rivière Bleue, 200 m, 27-28. III.1968, Bernardi 12412 (MO, US, Z) ; Thy House platform, 200 m, 26.II.1980, Brinon 549 (NOU [NOU029564]) ; Thy, upper eastern track, 290 m, 27.IV.1980, Brinon 646, (NOU [NOU029563]) ; Thy, quarry track, 200 m, 23.X.1982, Brinon 1401 (NOU [NOU029562]) ; Plaine des Lacs, c. 245 m, Compton 393 (BM) ; Goro, entre Forêt Nord et le route Inco, 20.III.2002, Dagostini &amp; Rigault 457 (NOU [NOU029618]) ; Goro-Inco, relevé R8, 20.IV.2002, Dagostini et al. 471 (NOU [NOU029612]) ; Goro-nickel, 20.XI.2002, Dagostini &amp; Rigault 602 (NOU [NOU029610]) ; Montagne des Sources, 1000 m, 3.XII.1992, Dawson WELTU16579 (NOU [NOU029591], WELTU) ; Col. d’Amieu, 7.XI.1982, Dawson WELTU16600 (WELTU); Port Boisé, 18.XI.1982, Dawson WELTU16604 (WELTU) ; Prony, 25.XI.1974, Favier 5195 (NOU [NOU029601]) ; Prony, II.1914, Franc 1689 (L, P[P005094037, P005094042, P005094047], US) ; Prony, II.1914, Franc 1689a (P[P05094043, P05094045]) ; vallée supériure de la Pouéta-Kouré, 200 m, 20. V.1951, Guillaumin &amp; Baumann-Bodenheim 13274 (P[P00463019], Z) ; Montagne des Sources, 22.VIII.1951, Hürlimann 1799 (P[P00463020], Z) ; vallée latérale de lat Riv. Blanche sur la route aux “Électriques”, 165 m, 25.VIII.1958, Hürlimann 3377 (Z) ; Ouenarou Forest Reserve, 280 m, 26.II.1992, Koyama 8185 (P[P00463022]) ; Prony, Le Rat 306 (P[P05094051]); Baie de Sud [Baie de Prony], entre Baie N’Go et Touaorou, 12.VIII.1903, Le Rat 600 (P[P05094046]) ; Mt. Dzumac, IV.1905, Le Rat 2659 (P[P05094048]) ; Haute Rivière Bleue, 200 m, 8.IV.1965, MacKee 12396 (NOU [NOU029598], P[P00463023], WELTU) ; Route de Yaté – Les Dalmates, 150 m, 8.III.1969, MacKee 20272 (NOU [NOU029613]) ; Col d’Amieu: Toili, 600 m, 22.IX.1970, MacKee 22546 (NOU [NOU029561], P[P02089837]) ; Montagne des Sources, 23.X. 1974, 800 m, MacKee 29417 (P[P02089841]) ; Forêt Cachée, 250 m, VII.1973, MacKee 26947 (NOU [NOU029617]) ; Prony, Forêt Nord, 200 m, 6. V.1975, MacKee 30090 (NOU [NOU029616]) ; Forêt Faux Bon Secours, 1. V.1978, MacKee 35083 (NOU [NOU029570]) ; Pente Sud du Mt Nakada, 600 m, 18.XI.1979, MacKee 37618 (P[P02089879]); Forêt Faux Bon Secours, 300 m, 17.III.1980, MacKee 37905 (NOU, P[P02089885]) ; Forêt Faux Bon Secours, 300 m, 25.II.1981, MacKee 38772 (NOU [NOU029571], P[P02089840]) ; Rivière Bleue, 150 m, 1.IV.1981, MacKee 38890 (NOU [NOU029569]) ; Vallee de la Ni, 100 m, 3.XII.1981, MacKee 40035 (MO, P[P02089886]); Rivière des Lacs 5 km aval de la Chute, 200 m, 24.I.1987, MacKee 43426 (NOU [NOU029604]) ; Ouénarou, 150 m, 29.VIII.1987, MacKee 43668 (NOU [NOU029603]) ; ibid. loco, 150 m, 7.III.1988, MacKee 43923 (BRI, MO, NOU [NOU029609], P[P02089874]); Pic du Pin, 200 m, 27.IX.1988, MacKee 44106 (P); Thy River valley, c. 12 air-km NE of Nouméa, 200 m, 9.IV.1979, McPherson 1539 (BISH, MO, NSW, NOU [NOU029620], PTBG) ; Thy River valley, c. 12 airkm NE of Nouméa, c. 400 m, 25.IV.1979, McPherson 1567 (BISH, NOU [NOU029592], P[P00463027]) ; Along road from Dumbéa River valley towards Mt Dzumac, c. 25 air-km N of Nouméa, 24.II.1980, McPherson 2472 (MO, NOU [NOU029565], P[P00463028]) ; Rivière Bleue reserve, c. 30 air-km NE of Nouméa, 30.VII.1980, McPherson 2894 (MO, NOU [NOU029619], NSW, P[P00463029], WELTU) ; Rivière Bleue reserve, c. 200 m, 25.III.1981, McPherson 3648 (MO, NOU [NOU029621], P[P00463030], WELTU) ; Thy River Valley, c. 12 air-km NE of Nouméa, 25.III.1981, McPherson 3685d (MO) ; Rivière des Pirogues, N of Nouméa-Yaté road, 16.I.1982, McPherson 4553 (MO, NOU [NOU029593], WELTU) ; Forested slopes near Mt Rembai, south of Col d’Amieu, 600 m, 6.XI.1982, McPherson 5064 (MO, NOU [NOU029623], P[P05094540]) ; Bay of Prony, 19.XI.1982, McPherson 5160 (MO, NOU [NOU029566], P[P00463030], PTBG) ; Forested slopes above a tributary of the Rivière Ni, 950-1000 m, 10.XI.2003, McPherson 19212 et al. (BISH, NOU [NOU004200], MO, P[P06668679]) ; Exploitation Forestière Guiraud à l’est de Bourail, Me Adeo, piste en direction du Menazi, 600-700 m, 24.III.1988, Morat 8008 (P[P00462987]) ; Pic du Pin, 7.XI.2002, Munzinger 1745 (MO, NOU [NOU012263], P[P00354256]); Haute Dumbéa, 25. V.1967, Nothis 373 (NOU [NOU029576]) ; Wagap, au-dessus de “Chapeau”, Pancher s.n. (P[P05094053]); Süd-Bai, zwischen der Bai N’Go und Touaourou, 1903, Rohrdorf 12 (Z); Rivière Bleue, 11.III.1966, Schmid 1097 (NOU [NOU029594], P[P005094538]) ; Rivière Bleue, IV.1970, Schmid 3086 (NOU [NOU029574], P[P05094541, P00462995]) ; Route du Dzumac, 600 m, 24.IV.1974, Schmid 5000 (NOU [NOU029572], P[P00462996]); Prony, 25.XI.1974, Schmid 5195 (P[P05094539], WELTU) ; Secteur du col d’Amieu, 700 m, 7.IV.1981, Suprin 1122 (NOU [NOU029595]) ; Monts Dzumac, 26.XI.1981, Suprin 1542 (P[P00462998]) ; La Rivière Blanche, V.1973, Veillon 2873 (NOU [NOU029622, NOU029599], P[P00463001, P00463002]). — Province unknown/Ab loco. Franc s.n. (P[P05094044]); Lécard s.n. (P[P05094055]); Sébert 74 (Herb. Pancher) (P[P05094052)]).</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs or trees</p><p>2-8(-18) m.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Terete, surface smooth; internodes&gt; 5 mm.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2 per node; petioles 2.5-6.5 mm; blades (2.0-)3.5- 8.0(-9.5) × (1.3-)1.8-3.5(-5.2) cm, narrowly elliptic to mostly elliptic or broadly elliptic, base cuneate (rarely rounded), surface flat, margin flat, apex obtuse to acute, midnerve above flush or sulcate, secondary veins above flush, oil glands of lower surface absent or sparse, indistinct.</p><p>Inflorescence</p><p>1.5-5.0 cm, pedicels (1-)6-15(-30) mm; of monads, 3-flowered cymes, or racemes, terminal or axillary, extrafloral bracts absent or scale-like.</p><p>Bracteoles</p><p>0.5-1.4 mm, narrowly triangular, sparsely sericeous.</p><p>Hypanthium</p><p>(2.5-)5-5.5 × 3.5-6 mm, obconic, surface smooth, sparsely sericeous; ovary apex glabrous to sparsely hairy.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 5, 1.4-2.7 mm, broadly ovate or rounded, ciliate on margins, glabrous above, glabrous to sparsely sericeous below, green.</p><p>Petals</p><p>(4-)5-7 × 3-4 mm, glabrous above and below, ciliate on margins.</p><p>Filaments</p><p>3-5 mm; anther sacs 0.4-0.6 mm.</p><p>Style</p><p>4-5 mm, sparsely (or rarely densely) villous on lower ½-¾.</p><p>Fruits</p><p>(5-)7-10(-12) × 6.5-10 mm, subglobular to globular, base rounded or often prominently tapered, red to dark red; seeds 1-2.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>Gossia vieillardii is the most widespread species of the genus in New Caledonia. As presently understood, it is the only species of Gossia of New Caledonia that is not strictly endemic, occurring also in Vanuatu (Snow &amp; Veldkamp 2010).</p><p>I annotated a specimen as the lectotype at P in August of 2004 but suggested later (Snow &amp; Veldkamp 2010: 181) that it could be considered the holotype. Digital access to specimens at P, unavailable in 2004 and 2010, now reveals twelve specimens under Vieillard 484, representing at least four genera ( Gossia, Decasperum J.R. Forst. &amp; G. Forst., Uromyrtus Burret and Archirhodomyrtus [Nied.] Burret). In contrast to my suggestion in 2010, the specimen should be considered the lectotype (as still annotated).</p><p>Gossia vieillardii shows considerable variation in its morphology, but no character differences warranted splitting the species. For example, a few specimens have slightly bullate leaves (e.g., Mackee 21184 and 22546). The species is the only one observed thus far in New Caledonia with occasionally tri-locular ovaries (Baker 1921). The petioles of G. vieillardii are bright pink or magenta. The base of the fruit on specimens is either rounded or noticeably tapered. The petals are whitish and said to be sweetly scented (Baker 1921). The flowers of some specimens are relatively small and have a densely pubescent hypanthium (e.g., MacKee 25216), whereas others are glabrous. The species can resemble G. diversifolia, but the latter has 4-angled branchlets. Gossia pancheri is similar but has a longer and more densely hairy hypanthium.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFF9F5221C1C3931FC514691	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFFAF5251CC63C12FB99438E.text	67621F13FFFAF5251CC63C12FB99438E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia virotii (Guillaumin) N. Snow	<div><p>Gossia virotii (Guillaumin) N. Snow</p><p>(Fig. 20)</p><p>Austrobaileya 8 (2): 192 (2010). — Myrtus virotii Guillaumin, Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, sér. B, Bot. 4: 33 (1953).</p><p>— Typus: New Caledonia. Grande Terre, South Prov ., Vallée de la Rivière de Humboldt, environs de la Case Marc (ancien campement pages), 130 m, 13.XI.1940, Virot 411 (holo-, P [P00602573]; iso-, A[00255457], NOU[NOU006235], NY, P[P00462850], Z).</p><p>SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. South Prov., Baumann-Bodenheim 8119, Col de Vulcain, 11.XI.1950, (P[P00459517], US, Z); Col de Vulcain, 900 m, 11.XI.1951, Baumann-Bodenheim 8184 (P[P00459519], US) ; Col de Vulcain, 11.XI.1951, Bauman 8209 (A, P[P00459520], US) ; Vale des von Mts Humboldt, 3.XI.1924, Däniker 459 (Z[Z-000050488]; Vallée Koéalagoguamba, 9.X.1977, MacKee 34057 (NOU [NOU028911], P[P00462841]); Hte vallée de la Tontouta, 22.X.1968, Veillon 1857 (NOU [NOU028913], P[P00462844]).</p><p>REPRESENTATIVE HERBARIUM SPECIMEN. — P00462850.</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — After Robert Virot (1915-2002), French botanist and collector of the holotype.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION, ECOLOGY AND PHENOLOGY. —Southern Grande Terre in maquis over ultramafics (Fig. 20), to c. 130 m. Flowering August through February; fruiting September through March.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Shrubs</p><p>To 1 m tall.</p><p>Branchlets</p><p>Round, internodes mostly greater than 5 mm long, emerging pubescent becoming glabrous and grayish.</p><p>Petioles</p><p>0.5-2 mm, emerging hairy becoming glabrous.</p><p>Leaves</p><p>Coriaceous, 2-4 per node.</p><p>Petioles</p><p>Less than 2 mm long.</p><p>Blades</p><p>1.5-3.0 × 0.2-0.6 cm, broadly linear to very narrowly obovate, base cuneate, margins slightly recurved, apex retuse, sparsely hairy becoming more or less glabrous below, midvein sulcate above throughout, venation inconspicuous but secondary veins slightly raised above, inconspicuous to not visible below.</p><p>Inflorescences</p><p>Of ascending axillary monads, infrequent, pedicels less than 5 mm.</p><p>Calyx</p><p>Lobes 4, whitish pubescent above.</p><p>Petals</p><p>Said to be whitish (none seen).</p><p>Stamen disk</p><p>Pubescent.</p><p>Anthers</p><p>Said to be ovate (none seen).</p><p>Fruit</p><p>Unknown.</p><p>REMARKS</p><p>The species is recognizable by its frequent occurrence of 3-4 narrow leaves per node with their retuse tips. The species resembles Gossia conspicua comb. nov., but G. virotii differs by its thinner textured, narrower and less strongly recurved leaf blades. In addition, the leaves of G. virotii are aggregated less densely at the tips of branchlets compared to G. conspicua comb. nov. The leaves of Baumann-Bodenheim 8184 are suggestive of Gossia alaternoides, given their greater width than other specimens of G. virotii . Recent checks (August 2019) indicate that one specimen still is annotated (incorrectly) as G. alaternoides (P[P00462841]) and another (incorrectly) as G. conspicua comb. nov. (P[P00462844]).</p><p>Additional descriptive data are needed for fertile material, but despite the inadequate description of flowers (and none yet for fruits), the species is easily distinguished from G. conspicua comb. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFFAF5251CC63C12FB99438E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
67621F13FFFCF5241FE53CB3FD51422F.text	67621F13FFFCF5241FE53CB3FD51422F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gossia N. Snow & Guymer	<div><p>SYNONYMIZATION OF GOSSIA BYRNESII UNDER EUGENIA REINWARDTIANA</p><p>Described from a single specimen from northeastern Australia (Snow et al. 2003), Gossia byrnesii N. Snow &amp; Guymer here is reduced to synonymy under Eugenia reinwardtiana (Blume) DC., given its 4-merous flowers and dibrachiate trichomes, the latter being common in Eugenia but unknown for Gossia . Fruiting material, absent from the holotype, would have clarified unambiguously its generic placement, given the pronounced differences in seed number and testal texture (seeds few and with a soft or leathery testa in Eugenia).</p><p>The taxonomy of E. reinwardtiana itself is complex and in need of further study, summarized recently by Veldkamp (2013). Moreover, Bernardini et al. (2014) used maximum likelihood analysis of combined nuclear (ITS and ETS) and plastid (ndh F, mat K, and rpl 16) on six accessions of E. reinwardtiana from across a broad geographical area (Philippines south to Australia and east to Hawaii). The sampled specimens were found to be closely related to, or perhaps conspecific with, Eugenia bryanii Kaneh., E. palumbis Merr., E. confusa DC., and E. koolauensis O. Deg. (Bernardini et al. 2014).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/67621F13FFFCF5241FE53CB3FD51422F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Snow, Neil	Snow, Neil (2020): A revision of New Caledonian Gossia N. Snow & Guymer (Myrtaceae). Adansonia (3) 42 (7): 131-177, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2020v42a7
