Guioa novobritannica

Guioa novobritannica is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.

Description

G. novobrittanica is a tree. Its leaves are elliptic in shape, densely covered in papillae but bearing only a few hairs over most of the leaf surface below. However, each leaf does bear hairs which form a single sac-like domatium.
The petal scales are well-developed. They are 1.5 to 1.8 mm long, with a club-shaped, stalked crest. The floral disc is incomplete.

Taxonomy

The species was described in 1988 by Peter C. van Welzen. The holotype was collected by David Gamman Frodin on Mt Tangis, New Britain in 1966 and deposited at the Leiden herbarium; duplicates are in several other herbaria.