Three New and Endemic Species of Eriocaulaceae from Serra da Canastra, Minas Gerais, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-33
Author(s):  
Livia Echternacht ◽  
Mariane da Silva Freitas ◽  
Marcelo Trovó
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Iucn Criteria

Abstract—Three new species of Eriocaulaceae, endemic to the Serra da Canastra in Minas Gerais state, are described. Paepalanthus petraeus is assigned to P. ser. Paepalanthus, differing within the series by its thickened stem accumulating leaf sheaths, linear leaves, and numerous scapes shorter or equaling the leaf height and bearing capitula with brown involucral bracts. Paepalanthus sinuosus belongs to P. subsect. Polyactis and is distinguished by few scapes in lax fascicles, more than twice as long as the leaves, which are patent to slightly recurved, and light brown involucral bracts with acute apex. Syngonanthus culcitosus, within S. sect. Syngonanthus, is unique due to its elongate and branched stem forming dense mats, simple inflorescences, cream-colored involucral bracts equaling the length of the floral disc, and gynoecium with nectariferous appendages. Comparisons with the most similar species are provided for each new taxon. Maps, photographs, and illustrations are presented, together with comments on phenology, distribution, habitat, and morphology. Paepalanthus petraeus and P. sinuosus are likely to be assessed as Critically Endangered, and S. culcitosus as Vulnerable, according to IUCN criteria.

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.

Three new micro-endemic species of Paepalanthus (Paepalanthoideae, Eriocaulaceae) from Serra do Ambrósio, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 247 (2) ◽  
pp. 118 ◽  
Author(s):  
FABIANE NEPOMUCENO COSTA ◽  
CAROLINE OLIVEIRA ANDRINO ◽  
MARCELO TROVÓ ◽  
LIVIA ECHTERNACHT ◽  
PAULO TAKEO SANO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Habitat Distribution ◽  
Espinhaço Range ◽  
Three New Species

We describe and illustrate three new species of Paepalanthus (Eriocaulaceae: Paepalanthoideae) from the Espinhaço Range: P. argyrotrychus, P. farinaceus and P. velutiphyllus, all endemic to Serra do Ambrósio, a mountain disjunct from the Espinhaço Range in the municipality of Rio Vermelho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. These species belong to Paepalanthus ser. Paepalanthus (=Paepalanthus [unranked] Variabiles). We provide detailed descriptions and illustrations for each taxon, as well as comments on habitat, distribution, morphology, conservation and their affinities to the most morphologically similar species.

Novelties in Begonia (Begoniaceae) from the campos rupestres of Serra do Padre Ângelo, Minas Gerais, Brazil: a new species and a new record

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 510 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
LUDOVIC JEAN CHARLES KOLLMANN ◽  
PAULO MINATEL GONELLA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Campos Rupestres ◽  
Rock Outcrops ◽  
Critically Endangered Species ◽  
Minas Gerais State

Begonia piranga (Begoniaceae) is a new narrowly endemic species from the campos rupestres of Serra do Padre Ângelo, a quartzitic massif in Conselheiro Pena, eastern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Description, diagnosis, taxonomic comments, detailed illustrations, field photographs, and a provisional IUCN Red List Assessment are provided. The new species is considered Critically Endangered due to its restricted occurrence in high elevation rock outcrops, small population size, and decline in the quality of the habitat. Begonia vasconcelosiana, another Critically Endangered species, is also newly reported here for Serra do Padre Ângelo. These discoveries add to the increasing list of novelties from Serra do Padre Ângelo, reinforcing the urge for conservation actions to protect the endemic flora of this Serra and other areas of campos rupestres in eastern Minas Gerais state.

Begonia medeiroii (Begoniaceae), a new species endemic to Santa Catarina, southern Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 423 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
LUÍS ADRIANO FUNEZ ◽  
JULIO CESAR JARAMILLO ◽  
ELISANDRO RICARDO DRECHSLER-SANTOS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Adaxial Surface ◽  
Narrow Endemic ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Iucn Criteria

We describe here Begonia medeiroii, a narrow endemic species from the Atlantic Rainforest. The conservation status of this species was assessed as critically endangered according to IUCN criteria. This species resembles to B. catharinensis and B. hirtella in some characteristics, differing among other features due the presence of adventitious vegetative buds on the adaxial surface of the leaves.

A new critically endangered species of Bertolonia (Melastomataceae, Bertolonieae) from Espírito Santo, Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 460 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
LUCAS F. BACCI ◽  
DIEGO TAVARES IGLESIAS ◽  
RENATO GOLDENBERG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Endangered Species ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Leaf Blade ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Adaxial Surface ◽  
Espírito Santo ◽  
Critically Endangered Species ◽  
Espirito Santo ◽  
Iucn Criteria

We describe here Bertolonia lucernula, a new endemic species from the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. It is only known from one locality, the “Área de Proteção Ambiental Mestre Álvaro”, in the municipality of Serra. The new species can be recognized by the branches and petioles covered with sessile and short-stalked glands and scattered unbranched trichomes, flat leaf blade surfaces covered only with sessile and short-stalked glands, small flowers with a widely campanulate hypanthium covered with the same trichomes as the petioles, calyx with membranaceous, truncate sepals, and short, triangular external teeth, asymmetric and obovate petals, with the apex covered with sessile and short-stalked glands on the adaxial surface. According to IUCN criteria, Bertolonia lucernula should be classified as Critically Endangered (CR).

scholarly journals Calliandra mayana (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae), a new narrowly endemic species from Campeche, Mexico

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 307 (4) ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
HÉCTOR M. M. HERNÁNDEZ ◽  
CARLOS GÓMEZ-HINOSTROSA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Tropical Deciduous Forest ◽  
Seasonally Flooded ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Iucn Criteria

A new species of Calliandra (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae, tribe Ingeae) from a restricted locality of Campeche, Mexico is herein described and illustrated. The species appears to be closely related to C. molinae, a species from Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua, from which it may be distinguished by being allopatric, and by a more limited development of suberose bark in stems and branches, comparatively smaller leaflets, consistently glabrous leaflets and corollas, and by the scarcely villous pods. Calliandra mayana appears to be restricted to an extremely small seasonally flooded savannah surrounded by tropical deciduous forest and, based on IUCN criteria, it is provisionally considered Critically endangered.

scholarly journals Calceolaria flavida (Calceolariaceae) a new endemic species to central Chile 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás Lavandero ◽  
Ludovica Santilli ◽  
Maria Fernanda Pérez
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Central Chile ◽  
Iucn Categories ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Coastal Mountain

A new species of Calceolaria endemic to central Chile is described. A comparison with morphologically similar species is made, and a key as well as detailed images to differentiate them is provided. The species is only known from the Natural Sanctuary Cerro El Roble, which is part of the coastal mountain range of central Chile and can be considered as  Critically Endangered (CR) under the IUCN categories and criteria.

scholarly journals Threatened endemic species of Hibiscus l. (Malvaceae) in Minas Gerais, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Luccas Henrique Gomes Rigueiral ◽  
Victor Martins Gonçalez ◽  
Marília Cristina Duarte ◽  
Cleber Vinicius Vitorio da Silva ◽  
Rafael Tavares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Atlantic Rainforest ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Isolated Populations ◽  
Southeast Brazil ◽  
Staminal Tube ◽  
Minas Gerais State

Hibiscus L. is one of the largest genera of Malvaceae, Southeast Brazil has six endemic species of 14 native species, mainly distributed in cerrado. These Hibiscus are hairy shrubs, with showy flowers of pink corolla, dark base, 5-toothed staminal tube apex, loculicidal capsule of 5 cells. The species inhabit wet ecosystems of the atlantic rainforest and cerrado. After the last study of Hibiscus taxonomy evidencing four endemic species from Minas Gerais state, showed to have the largest endemism center of Hibiscus in Brazil, therefore, using IUCN classification methodology, we indicated H. hilarianus and H. multiformis as vulnerable, H. itirapinensis as endangered and H. mariae as critically endangered. The species are represented by small isolated populations distributed at the mountains and plateaus between Espinhaço mountain range and Planalto Paulista, considered a region with great endemic biodiversity. According to the previously analysis, it is recommended specific studies with techniques and appropriate methodology to research the development and evolutionary characteristics of hibiscus species in Minas Gerais state.

scholarly journals Expanding Waltillia: an addition to a previously monotypic genus of Bromeliaceae from the Espinhaço range, Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 491 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
TALITA M. MACHADO ◽  
MARCO OTÁVIO D. PIVARI ◽  
LEONARDO M. VERSIEUX
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
Espinhaço Range ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Light Green ◽  
A New Species

We describe Waltillia itambana, a new species placed in the previously monotypic genus Waltillia, presenting as main differences from Waltillia hatschbachii features such as a water-impounding rosette, shorter and broader leaves, divergent non-secund flowers and the light-green petals. The species is, as far as known, restricted to Pico do Itambé State Park, in Minas Gerais, growing above 1500 m of elevation in the rupestrian grasslands, of the Diamantina Plateau, Espinhaço Range, Minas Gerais State. We compare W. itambana with other similar species that occur in the rupestrian grasslands and provide illustrations, information on geographic distribution, a map, and ecological and conservation observations on the new species.

New loricariid fishes from headwaters on Serra da Mantiqueira and Complexo do Espinhaço, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Loricariidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4586 (3) ◽  
pp. 401 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSÉ C. DE OLIVEIRA ◽  
OSVALDO T. OYAKAWA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
First Record ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
The Body ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Adipose Fin ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Cadeia Do Espinhaço

Three new species, of three different genera of loricariids, are described from the headwaters of Serra da Mantiqueira and Cadeia do Espinhaço, in Southeastern Minas Gerais State, Brazil. In this region, the Serra da Mantiqueira and the Complexo do Espinhaço are the highest points of the Brazilian Shield and delimits the headwaters of four drainages: São Francisco, Paraná, Doce and Paraíba do Sul basins. Harttia intermontana, n. sp., is described from the headwaters of the Rio Doce basin and is the first record of the genus in this basin. The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by the pattern of abdominal covering, presence of preanal plates, presence and pattern of ornamentation of canal plate, and some characteristics related to sexual dimorphism. Pareiorhaphis togoroi, n. sp., is described from the headwaters of the Rio das Mortes basin, tributary to the Rio Grande, in the upper Rio Paraná drainage, and represents the first record of the genus to this drainage, thus expanding its geographic distribution. It can be distinguished from most congeners by the absence of preadipose azygous plates, and characteristics related to secondary sexual characters of mature males: presence of odontodes on the lateral margin of head plus the absence of long hypertrophied odontodes on pectoral-fin spine. Neoplecostomus pirangaensis, n. sp., is described from the headwaters of the Rio Piranga, Rio Doce basin. The new species differs from all congeners by the much-reduced dermal platelets on the abdomen, devoid of developed odontodes between the insertions of the pectoral and pelvic fins. Neoplecostomus pirangaensis can also be distinguished from all congeners, except N. botucatu and N. paranensis, due to the complete absence of vestiges of the adipose fin (vs. vestiges, or adipose fin moderate to well developed and always present). The new species differs from N. botucatu by the absence of conspicuous dark spots all over the body and the presence of common dorsal bands in juveniles, and almost totally black in adults. It differs from N. paranensis by the bigger and less numerous teeth. Additionally, the new species differs from Neoplecostomus doceensis by the absence of enlarged fleshy folds between dentaries, and absence of a lateronasal plate. 

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