VARIASI MORFOLOGI DAEMONOROPS FISSA KOMPLEKS DI MALESIA BARAT

Dwi Putri Ramadhani (Program Pasca Sarjana, Fakultas Matematika dan Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam, Institut Pertanian Bogor)
Tatik Chikmawati (Departemen Biologi, Fakultas Matematika dan Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam, Institut Pertanian Bogor)
Himmah Rustiami (3Herbarium Bogoriense, Bidang Botani, Pusat Penelitian Biologi, LIPI, Cibinong Science Center)

Floribunda
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2014)

Daemonorops fissa complex study in West Malesia has been done, based on 21 morphological characters of 355 herbarium specimen. D. fissa complex in West Malesia has unique characters such as peduncle erect to ± 2 cm, fruit globose, leaves alternate, length of involucrum 1 cm and endosperm ruminate. D. fissa complex in West Malesia consist of eight known species, namely D. angustifolia (Griff.) Mart., D. calicarpa (Griff.) Mart., D. fissa Blume, D. grandis (Griff.) Mart., D. lewisiana (Griff.) Mart., D. melanochaetes Blume, D. monticola (Grift) Mart., and D. stenophylla Becc. Three species are proposed as new synonym, D. binnendijkii Becc. and D. trichroa Miq. are synonim to D. angustifolia, whereas D. palembanica Blume as a synonim to D. melanochaetes.