Hohenbergia ituberaensis (Bromeliaceae): a new white-flowered species from Bahia, Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 439 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-126
Author(s):  
BRAYAN PAIVA CAVALCANTE ◽  
EVERTON HILO DE SOUZA ◽  
LEONARDO M. VERSIEUX ◽  
ADRIANA PINHEIRO MARTINELLI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Rare Species ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Forest Fragment ◽  
Diagnostic Characteristic ◽  
Floral Bracts ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Small Forest

We describe a new species of Hohenbergia (Bromeliaceae) from Brazil, H. ituberaensis, a rare species, so far only known from Ituberá municipality, Bahia State, in an area of the Atlantic Forest. The species is similar to H. stellata, presenting a pinkish inflorescence, congested and non-divided branches, pinkish and large floral bracts hiding the sepals, spatulate petals with a slightly reflexed apex. However, it differs by the white petals, as a diagnostic characteristic. The type specimen was collected in a small forest fragment and here this species is categorized as Vulnerable. Additionally, we compared this new species to Hohenbergia belemii and H. capitata, which are also similar to H. stellata, due to the red/pinkish characteristics of the branches, with large flowers and well-developed floral bracts. An illustration, an occurrence map, taxonomic comments and a table comparing the main characters of these four species are provided.

A new species and southernmost record of Cestrus Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4822 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-284
Author(s):  
FERNANDA A. SUPELETO ◽  
BERNARDO F. SANTOS ◽  
ALEXANDRE P. AGUIAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Rare Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dorsal Valve ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Apical Margin ◽  
Yellow Stripe ◽  
A New Species

Cestrus itatiensis sp. nov., from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, is described and illustrated. This is the southernmost record for the genus and the first record in Brazil. The new species is characterized by having the body reddish brown; a narrow yellow stripe along eye margin on supra-clypeal area, reaching briefly the supra-antennal area; transverse carina of propodeum complete and stout; postpetiole and T2–8 progressively dark brown towards apical margin in a somewhat triangular pattern; and apex of dorsal valve of ovipositor with nine distinct teeth. Extensive sampling suggest this is a rare species. 

scholarly journals Going extinct before being discovered? New lichen fungi from a small fragment of the vanishing Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thamires Almeida Pereira ◽  
Paula de Oliveira Passos ◽  
Lidiane Alves dos Santos ◽  
Robert Lücking ◽  
Marcela Eugenia Da Silva Cáceres
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Rare Species ◽  
Atlantic Rainforest ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Small Fragment ◽  
Forest Fragment ◽  
Deforestation Rate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Small Forest

Abstract In the frame of an ongoing lichen inventory of Atlantic Rainforest remnants in Northeast Brazil, five new species of Graphidaceae were discovered in a small forest fragment, Mata do Cipó, in Sergipe state, the smallest state of Brazil and among those with the highest deforestation rate in the country. An additional new species had already been collected in Panama before and was now also found in the Mata do Cipó and is described here as well. In total, 40 species of Graphidaceae are reported for this remnant, including a large number of taxa indicative of well-preserved rainforest. The new species are: Fissurina atlantica T.A. Pereira, M. Cáceres & Lücking, sp. nov., Graphis subaltamirensis Passos, M. Cáceres & Lücking, sp. nov., Ocellularia cipoensis L.A. Santos, M. Cáceres & Lücking, sp. nov., O. sosma T.A. Pereira, M. Cáceres & Lücking, sp. nov., O. submordenii Lücking, sp. nov. (also known from Panama), and Pseudochapsa aptrootiana M. Cáceres, T.A. Pereira & Lücking, sp. nov. The findings are discussed in the context of the strong fragmentation of the Atlantic Rainforest, with individual remnants apparently serving as refugia for residual populations of rare species of lichen fungi that were more widely distributed in the past, but currently seem to occur only in isolated fragments.

Anthurium narae—A new species of Araceae from a small forest fragment in southeastern Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 351 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
MEL C. CAMELO ◽  
MARCUS A. N. COELHO ◽  
LÍVIA G. TEMPONI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Montane Forest ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Forest Fragment ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Small Forest

Anthurium narae is described from the state of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil. It occurs in a small forest fragment of semideciduous seasonal montane forest, a component of Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Descriptions, illustrations, photographs and comparison with other similar species of Anthurium sect. Urospadix are provided together with comments about geographical distribution, ecology, phenology, and conservation status.

Anthurium narae—A new species of Araceae from a small forest fragment in southeastern Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 351 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
MEL C. CAMELO ◽  
MARCUS A. N. COELHO ◽  
LÍVIA G. TEMPONI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Montane Forest ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Forest Fragment ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Small Forest

Anthurium narae is described from the state of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil. It occurs in a small forest fragment of semideciduous seasonal montane forest, a component of Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Descriptions, illustrations, photographs and comparison with other similar species of Anthurium sect. Urospadix are provided together with comments about geographical distribution, ecology, phenology, and conservation status.

Paepalanthus mellosilvae (Eriocaulaceae), a new species from the Mantiqueira Range in Minas Gerais, Brazil 

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 500 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-252
Author(s):  
MARCELO TROVÓ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Floral Bracts ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Iucn Criteria ◽  
Single Locality

Paepalanthus mellosilvae is here described and illustrated as a new species of Eriocaulaceae from the Atlantic Forest domain in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The new species is known from a single locality in the Mantiqueira Range, growing along trails through cloud forests. According to the IUCN criteria, it is suggested here as critically endangered. Paepalanthus mellosilvae is compared to P. harmsii, a morphologically similar species also growing in the Mantiqueira Range, being mainly distinguished by the presence of a rhizome, narrower leaves, more numerous scapes, narrower capitula, sparsely pilose involucral bracts, and obdeltate floral bracts. Additional comments on the taxonomy, morphology, and distribution of the species, along with illustrations are provided. The specific epithet is a tribute to Prof. Dr. Renato de Mello-Silva.

scholarly journals New species of Cyclodontina from Bahia, Brazil (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Odontostomidae)

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 484-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo B. Salvador ◽  
Luiz R. L. Simone
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Land Snails ◽  
Forest Fragment ◽  
Pulmonate Snail ◽  
Molluscan Fauna ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The City ◽  
A New Species ◽  
High Diversity ◽  
Small Forest

A new species of pulmonate snail was recently collected in a small forest fragment in the city of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia state, Brazil. Bahia is known for a high diversity of land snails and Bom Jesus da Lapa is an interesting locality, since it is close to the interface between two major Brazilian biomes: Cerrado and Caatinga. The new species is described as Cyclodontina tapuia sp. nov. and can be easily identified by its brown shell, conical spire, convex whorls, a sculpture comprised of strong ribs, and an aperture with four barriers: a median parietal tooth, a median palatal tooth, a median basal tooth and a strong columellar lamella. This discovery is also a reminder of how little the Brazilian continental molluscan fauna is known and of the urgency in studying and preserving the rich (though usually overlooked) fauna of the Caatinga.

A New Species of Cryptanthus (Bromeliaceae, Bromelioideae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest north of the São Francisco River, and its Contribution to the Taxonomy of the Genus

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 460-465
Author(s):  
Débora Maria Cavalcanti Ferreira ◽  
Rafael Batista Louzada
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Rare Species ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Sao Francisco River ◽  
Species Complexes ◽  
São Francisco River ◽  
Rocky Outcrop ◽  
A New Species

Abstract—Cryptanthus cinereus D.M.C. Ferreira & Louzada, a new rare species of Bromeliaceae restricted to northeastern Brazil, is described and illustrated. Cryptanthus cinereus is a rupicolous plant that occurs in the Atlantic Forest on the top of a rocky outcrop and is known only from a single record. This new species is morphologically similar to Cryptanthus felixii, but differs mainly by its narrowly triangular leaves that are wider at base, primary bracts with adaxial surfaces densely lepidote (vs. glabrous or glabrous with base densely lepidote), shorter flowers (39‐52 mm), sepal lobes lanceolate, with shorter connate sepals (1.6‐5 mm) and petals (1‐1.2 mm). An identification key to Cryptanthus cinereus and other species that occur in the Atlantic Forest north of the São Francisco River is provided. In addition, two species complexes are characterized for the area.

A New Species of Eugenia subg. Pseudeugenia (Myrtaceae, Myrteae) from Brazilian Atlantic Forest

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-543
Author(s):  
Karinne Sampaio Valdemarin ◽  
Jair Eustáquio Quintino Faria ◽  
Fiorella Fernanda Mazine ◽  
Vinicius Castro Souza
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Forest Vegetation ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Flower Buds ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Lowland Forests ◽  
A New Species

Abstract—A new species of Eugenia from the Atlantic forest of Brazil is described and illustrated. Eugenia flavicarpa is restricted to the Floresta de Tabuleiro (lowland forests) of Espírito Santo state and is nested in Eugenia subg. Pseudeugenia. Considering all other species of the subgenus that occur in forest vegetation types of the Atlantic forest phytogeographic domain, Eugenia flavicarpa can be distinguished mainly by the combination of smooth leaves with indumentum on both surfaces, with two marginal veins, usually ramiflorous inflorescences, pedicels 4.5‐9.7 mm long, flower buds 3.5‐4 mm in diameter, and by the calyx lobes that are 2‐3 mm long with rounded to obtuse apices. Morphological analyses were performed to explore the significance of quantitative diagnostic features between the new species and the closely related species, Eugenia farneyi. Notes on the habitat, distribution, phenology, and conservation status of Eugenia flavicarpa are provided, as well as a key for all species of Eugenia subg. Pseudeugenia from forest vegetation of the Atlantic forest phytogeographic domain.

Studies on Brazilian Amauroderma s.str. reveal a new species from the Atlantic Forest, Amauroderma robledoi sp. nov. (Polyporales, Ganodermataceae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 147 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Diogo Henrique Costa-Rezende ◽  
Aristóteles Góes-Neto ◽  
Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
A New Species

Puya colcaensis (Bromeliaceae) a new species from southern Peru

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 406 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-242
Author(s):  
ITALO F. TREVIÑO-ZEVALLOS ◽  
VICTOR QUIPUSCOA SILVESTRE ◽  
ERIC J. GOUDA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern Peru ◽  
Bluish Green ◽  
Floral Bracts ◽  
A New Species

Puya colcaensis is described and illustrated as a new species found in the Province of Caylloma (Arequipa) in southern Peru. This species has a compound inflorescence, bluish-green flowers, with pedicels smaller than 1.5 cm, which are exceeded by the floral bracts, and sepals with dense stellate trichomes. It is similar to P. araneosa and P. adscendens.

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