A new species of Freycinetia Gaudich. (Pandanaceae ; Freycinetoideae) with pseudopetioliform leaves from Arfak Mountains, Papua, Indonesia

A new species of Freycinetia Gaudich. (Pandanaceae; Freycinetoidea) with obvious pseudopetiolate
basal leaf from Mount Tombrok in the vicinity of theArfak Mountains, West Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, is newly
described as Freycinetia pseudopetiolataA.P.Keim, K.Kartawinata & W.Sujarwo. The possession of the pseudopetiolate basal leaf form places this new species in the section Pseudopetiolosae; thus marking the first presence of
the section for mainland New Guinea.