The genus Hapaline
(Araceae: Aroideae: Caladieae)
P.C. BOYCE

INTRODUCTION

CLASSIFICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS

CHARACTERS USED TO DETERMINE GENERIC PLACEMENT

CHARACTERS SEPARATING HAPALINE FROM OTHER PALEOTROPICAL 'COLOCASOID' GENERA

MORPHOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION

Leaf

Inflorescence

Infructescence

Distribution

THE GENUS Hapaline Schott

KEY TO THE SPECIES OF Hapaline

1. Hapaline appendiculata Ridley

2. Hapaline celatrix P.C. Boyce sp. nov.

3. Hapaline brownii Hook.f.

4. Hapaline kerrii Gagnep.

5. Hapaline benthamiana Schott

6. Hapaline ellipticifolia C.Y. Wu & H. Li

7. Hapaline colaniae Gagnep.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

Characters separating Hapaline from other palaeotropical 'colocasioid' genera (after Grayum, 1990)