Phylologia (July 1995) 79(1): 1-4. NEW SPECIES AND NEW COMBINATIONS (BASELLACEAE) Calvin R. Sperling' LIBRARY FEB -5 1995 NEVil YORK IS IN ANREtflERA^S^r^^ National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Room 402, Building 003, Bare-West, BeltsviUe, Maryland 20705 U.S.A. ABSTRACT Two new species of Anredera, A. aspera Sperling and A. densiflora Sperling, are described, and four new combinations, A. brachystachys (Moq.) Sperling, A. floribunda (Moq.) Sperling, A. krapovickasii (Villa) Sperling, and A. tucumanensis (Lillo & Hauman) Sperling, are made. These new species and new combinations are from the unpublished Ph.D. dissertation of Calvin R. Sperling. KEY WORDS: Anredera, Basellaceae, taxonomy FORWARD [J. W. Nowicke, Botany Dept., NHB 166, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 20560 U.S.A.] In the course of a palynological study that included Anredera, I disco\'crcd that two new sjxcics and four new combinations established by the laic Cahin Sperling (1987) arc heretofore unpublished. The Latin dcscnptions ol the two new species, Anredera densiflora from Ecuador and Peru, and A. aspera from northern Bolivia, and the synonymy of the remaining four new combinations, A. tucumanensis (Lillo & Hauman) Sperling, A. floribunda (Mcx^.) Sperling, A. krapovickxisii (Villa) Sperling, and A. brachystachys (Moq.) Sperling, have been taken from Spelling's dissertation. Before his death, he approved publication of these names. Two more new combinations, Anredera diffusa (Moq.) Sperling and A. niarginala (H.B.K.) Sperling, were recently published (Brako & Zarucchi 1993, p. 1253). In addition to the twelve species of Anredera, Sperling treated ihc remaining three genera that compnse Basellaceae, Basella L. (5 species), Tournonia Mcx^. (1 species), and Ullucus Caldas (1 species). Although his study concentrated on Ullucus tuberosus Caldas, Spelling's dissertation has keys, descriptions, distribution maps, and Decensed 20 May 1995
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