Mycetia dagohoyana: A new endemic species of Argostemmateae (Rubiaceae) from Agusan del Norte, Philippines

• Main Authors: De la Bajan, Ulpiano P., Jr., Ordas, Jorge Anton D., Tandang, Danilo N., Alejandro, Grecebio Jonathan D.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Rubiaceae—Variation—Philippines—Agusan del Norte; Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11189
• Institution: De La Salle University

A new species of Argostemmateae, Mycetia dagohoyana, thriving in the moist humus soils in open areas of Agusan del Norte, Philippines, is described and illustrated. This new species resembles M. javanica but is distinct by its densely strigose leaf blades, 9−11 mm stipules that are attenuate at apex and glabrous adaxially, subsessile inflorescences in congested thyrse, 2−3 mm calyces that are cupuliform and puberulous, shorter (1–2 mm) and puberulous corolla lobes, and smaller (5−6 mm in diam.) and sparsely hirsute fruits.