A new species of the genus Calligonum (Polygonaceae) from Turkmenistan

Novitates Systematicae Plantarum Vascularium ◽

10.31111/novitates/2018.49.51 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 51-55

Author(s):

A. V. Pavlenko

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Vegetative Organs ◽

A New Species

A new species Calligonum inerme Kamelin, Gorelova et A. Pavlenko is described from the Badkhyz highland in South-East Turkmenistan. This species is similar to C. junceum (Fisch. et C. A. Mey.) Litv. by habit and morphology of vegetative organs, but differs from this and other species of the genus Calligonum L. by glabrous nutlets without wings or bristles.

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A new species of Mimosa (Mimosoideae, Leguminosae) from the inter-Andean dry valleys

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.114.1.3 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 114 (1) ◽

pp. 33

Author(s):

MATIAS MORALES ◽

RENEE H. FORTUNATO

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Dry Valleys ◽

Dry Forests ◽

Vegetative Organs ◽

First Time ◽

A New Species

Mimosa arturoana (Mimosoideae, Leguminosae) is described and illustrated for the first time. This species is similar to the recently published M. lamolina and to the allopatric, Mexican M. deamii, but differs by several morphological characters, such as stems armament, secondary venation of leaflets and pubescence of vegetative organs and pods. This species should be included in the Mimosa sect. Mimosa ser. Mimosa subser. Lactifluae by its characteristic habit, armament of stems, and ecology. This finding increments the diversity of Leguminosae in the dry forests of Inter-Andean valleys of Peru, a potentially center of endemism of this family.

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A new species of Cintractiella (Ustilaginales) from the volcanic island of Kosrae, Caroline Islands, Micronesia

MycoKeys ◽

10.3897/mycokeys.42.27231 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

M. Catherine Aime ◽

Teeratas Kijpornyongpan ◽

Mehrdad Abbasi ◽

Kenneth R. Wood ◽

Tim Flynn

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Material ◽

Smut Fungi ◽

Volcanic Island ◽

Federated States Of Micronesia ◽

Vegetative Organs ◽

Caroline Islands ◽

A New Species

Cintractiella is an unusual genus of smut fungi containing two described species that produce sori as adventitious gall-like spikelets on members of tribe Hypolytreae (subfam. Mapanioideae, Cyperaceae). In September 200, during a botanical expedition on the volcanic island of Kosrae located in the eastern Caroline Islands and within the Federated States of Micronesia, a specimen of Mapaniapacifica was collected displaying Cintractiella-like sori in adventitious spikelets on the host leaves. Sori were hypophyllous, occurring in groups of spikelets composed of olivaceous-brown scale-like leaves, 1–1.5 mm wide and up to 6 mm long. Microscopic comparison with the protologue and drawings of the type material of C.lamii show several differences in teliospore and sori characters between it and the newly collected material on Mapania. To our knowledge, this represents only the second known collection of any member of Cintractiella on vegetative organs of Hypolytreae and a third species for this genus and the only known smut species infecting Mapania, herein described as Cintractiellakosraensissp. nov.

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