list of figures - Terry Sunderland

Specimens examined
CAMEROON: Lejoly 86/1005, 3km S of L'Olonou (02.46N:12.02E), Fr., December 16, 1986 (BR!);
Letouzey 4556, 35 km S of Bengbis (03.13N:12.28E), Fr., March 17, 1962 (YA!); Letouzey
11889, Mintom I (02.03N:13.30E) Fl., January 23, 1973 (K!, YA!); EQUATORIAL GUINEA:
Sunderland 1913, Akonibe to Evinayong road (01.21N:10.43E) Fl. & Fr., April 2, 1998 (K!, EG!, BH!,
WAG!); Sunderland 1914, Akonibe to Evinayong road (01.21N:10.43E) sterile, April 2, 1998 (K!, EG!,
WAG!); GABON: Breteler et al. 10957, 5-30km NNW of Ndjale (00.05S:10.45E) Fl., April 21, 1992
(WAG!); Dibata & Mbouissou 958, Mission Otouma (00.13N:10.56E) Fr., February 10, 1992 (BR!);
Louis et al. 1350, 32km SE of Sindera (01.14S:10.53E) Fr., July 13, 1983 (K!, WAG!, BR!, HBG);
Reitsma 1340, Between Cap Santa Clara and Cap Esterias (00.34N:09.22E) Fr., August 15, 1985
(WAG!); Wieringa 466, 0.5km SE of Tchimbelé (00.36N:10.24E) Fr., January 25, 1990 (WAG!); DR
CONGO: Couteaux 502, Eala (00.03N:18.18E) sterile, October 29, 1938 (BR!); Evrard 2077, Isangi
(01.02N:23.41E) Fl. & Fr., December 11, 1956 (BR!); Gossweiler H1039/24, Port Congo, Fr., April 28,
1924 (K!); ANGOLA: Gossweiler 9092, Mayombe, Luali, (05.00S:12.25E) Fl. & Fr., s.d. (K!)
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O. tuleyi Sunderland sp. nov.
affinis O. mannii (H. Wendl.) H. Wendl. sed vagina robustus (25-45mm diametrum)
non tenuis (12-23mm), ramis inflorescentia 1.2-1.8 m longis (non 0.8-1.0 m), rhachis
bracteatus 13-15 cm longus (non 2.4-4.0 cm), floribus 9-11 (non 5-11), 3 (non 2-5)
medii foemineis et 6-8 (non 4-6) masculis anterioribus, semen testa laevis non
tuberculate. Type: Cameroon, Ossing, near Mamfe, Sunderland 1939 (holotype K!;
iso-types SCA! NY!, MO!).
O. mannii sensu Holland in Kew Bull. 9: 727 (1922); Russell in F.W.T.A. 2(3): 167
(1968); Morakinyo in Principes 39(4): 206 (1994) partim non H. Wendl.; Tuley in
Palms of Africa, 83: (1995) partim non H. Wendl.; Cable & M. Cheek in Pl. of Mt.
Cam. 179: (1998).
Clustering robust palm climbing to 30m, rarely to 50 m. Stems without sheaths 13-22
mm in diameter, with, 25-45 mm; internodes 14-25 cm long, commonly 15-18 cm.
Leaf sheath lightly striate, light brown to mid-green, very sparsely and patchily armed
with dark brown to glaucous black spines, often concentrated on the ocrea; sheaths
often becoming bare with spines sloughing to leave raised, linear blister-like scars;
thin white caducous indumentum present on young sheaths, absent on mature sheaths;
ocrea saddle-shaped, with 1.5-2 cm. rounded lobe abaxial to the leaf, armed as the leaf
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