REINWARDTIA Vol. 20. No. 2. pp: 57‒61 DOI: 10.14203/reinwardtia.v20i2.4231 57 A NEW SPECIES OF DEPARIA FROM NEW GUINEA Received October 17, 2021; accepted December 06, 2021 WITA WARDANI Herbarium Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, National Research and Innovation Agency. Jln. Raya Jakarta- Bogor, Km. 46, Cibinong, West Java 16911. Email: wt.wardani@gmail.com JAENUDIN Herbarium Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, National Research and Innovation Agency. Jln. Raya Jakarta- Bogor, Km. 46, Cibinong, West Java 16911. Email: jayrakanoval@gmail.com ISMAIL APANDI Herbarium Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, National Research and Innovation Agency. Jln. Raya Jakarta- Bogor, Km. 46, Cibinong, West Java 16911. Email: ismailapandi77@gmail.com ANNE KUSUMAWATY Herbarium Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, National Research and Innovation Agency. Jln. Raya Jakarta- Bogor, Km. 46, Cibinong, West Java 16911. Email: annekusuma01@yahoo.co.id WAHYUDI SANTOSO Herbarium Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, National Research and Innovation Agency. Jln. Raya Jakarta- Bogor, Km. 46, Cibinong, West Java 16911. Email: wahygbr@gmail.com ABSTRACT WARDANI, W., JAENUDIN, APANDI, I., KUSUMAWATY, A. & SANTOSO, W. 2021. A new species of Deparia from New Guinea. Reinwardtia 20(2): 57−61. — Deparia stellata is a new species of highland in Eastern New Guinea, described from a specimen found among unidentified piles of New Guinean Expedition in 1975. Its distinctive stellate-hairs on all axis and occasionally on rachis-scale margin are the main character that differentiate the species to other Deparia. Key words: Deparia, highland, New Guinea, stellate-hairs. ABSTRAK WARDANI, W., JAENUDIN, APANDI, I., KUSUMAWATY, A. & SANTOSO, W. 2021. Jenis baru Deparia dari Papua Nugini. Reinwardtia 20(2): 57−61. — Deparia stellata adalah jenis baru dari dataran tinggi Papua Nugini bagian timur, dideskripsikan dari satu spesimen yang tidak teridentifikasi dalam tumpukan hasil ekspedisi di Papua Nugini pada tahun 1975. Karakter utama yang membedakannya dari jenis lain pada marga Deparia adalah tutupan rambut-rambut bintang di semua sumbu (rakis, kosta kostul dan vena) dan terkadang pada tepian sisik di bagian rakis. Kata kunci: Dataran tinggi, Deparia, Papua Nugini, rambut bintang. INTRODUCTION Among specimens of Athyriaceae from New Guinea stored in BM, we found an interesting specimen that could not be convincingly identified. The pinnate oblong-lanceolate leaf with pinnae deeply incised, gradually reduced to pinnae with serrated margin toward apex, groovy and hairy- look axis, and linear indusium that mostly not reaching margin are some of the main features of a common species, Deparia petersenii, that immedi- ately observed in our specimen. It was collected on the Star Mountains Expedition in 1975, a collabo- rative trip between Papua New Guinea National Herbarium (LAE) and Rijksherbarium Leiden (L). After a closer examination, we found the lamina axes of this specimen are densely covered with distinctive indumentum of darkly-pigmented stellate hairs, rather than multicellular septate hairs as commonly found in other Deparia species. Moreover, their scales are different from some hairs on margin that are not present in most of Deparia. This character is unusual for the genus and suggest that this specimen represented an undescribed species. Deparia is a wide spread genus in the family Athyriaceae, distributed in tropical Africa, Mada- gascar, Reunion, South India, Ceylon, Himalayas, East and South East Asia, Oceania, East Australia and East North America (Kato, 1984). This terres-