Sabdariffa meraukensis (Hochr.) McLay & R.L.Barrett, 2025

Barrett, Russell L., Yoshikawa, Vania Nobuko, McLay, Todd G. B., Duarte, Marília Cristina, Mwachala, Geoffrey & Hanes, Margaret M., 2025, Reinstatement of Sabdariffa and new combinations to support a monophyletic concept of Hibiscus (Malvaceae: Hibisceae), Australian Systematic Botany 38 (3), pp. 1-97 : 63-64

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1071/SB24013
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scientific name	Sabdariffa meraukensis (Hochr.) McLay & R.L.Barrett
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Sabdariffa meraukensis (Hochr.) McLay & R.L.Barrett View in CoL , comb. nov.

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Hibiscus meraukensis Hochr., Annuaire Cons. Jard. Bot. View in CoL Genève 8: 11–12 (1908). Type: New Guinea: Irian Jaya: Merauke, 30 Aug. 1904, J.W.R.Koch [13] 421 (lecto, designated by J. van Borssum Waalkes , Blumea View in CoL 14(1): 61 (1966): BO; isolecto: G, L 0012968, L 0012969, L 0012970, L 0012971, L 0012972).

Brockmania membranacea W.Fitzg. View in CoL , Western Mail ( Perth ) 21(1067); 7, pl. p. 27 (9 June 1906), nom. inval., nom. nud.

Brockmania membranacea W.Fitzg., J. & Proc. Roy. Soc. View in CoL West. Austral . 3: 174 (1918). Type: Western Australia: Banks of Lennard River, ~ 10 miles [~ 16 km] above Wingrah Pass, 8 May 1905, W.V. Fitzgerald 640 (lecto, designated by F.D.Wilson, Austral . J. Bot . 22: 171 (1974): NSW 101036; isolecto: BM 000645648).

Descriptions and illustrations

Hochreutiner (1908, pp. 11–12); Fitzgerald (1918, p. 174); Hochreutiner (1924, p. 163); Borssum Waalkes (1966, pp. 61–62, fig. 9); Wilson (1974, p. 171); Mitchell (1981, p. 210); Wheeler (1992, p. 217, fig. 59f); Kenneally et al. (1996, p. 122, pl.); Cooper and Cooper (2004, p. 278, fig.); Cowie et al. (2013, p. 14, fig. 4, pl. 8); McLay (2022).

Distribution

Lesser Sunda Islands in the southern Indonesian archipelago, New Guinea and northern Australia.