Sabdariffa kounounkan Cheek 2026, sp. nov.

Sabdariffa kounounkan Cheek sp. nov. Figs 3, 4 Diagnosis. Sabdariffa kounounkan is most closely similar to S. sineaculeata (F. D. Wilson) Mwachala and R. L. Barrett of Ghana-Nigeria, differing in the deciduous (vs persistent) stipules; the involucellar bracts 9–13 mm long united into a short tube at base (vs free, 6–10 mm long); the leaf-blades of the primary axis transversally elliptic in outline, 5 (- 7) palmately lobed by 1 / 3,> 80 % covered in softly pubescent stellate hairs (vs orbicular or ovate, 3 (- 5) - lobed by 2 / 3,