scholarly journals Miconia lucenae (Melastomataceae), a new species from montane Atlantic Forest in Espírito Santo, Brazil

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e8752
Author(s):  
Renato Goldenberg ◽  
Marcelo Reginato ◽  
Fabián A. Michelangeli

We describe Miconia lucenae R.Goldenb. & Michelang., a new species from the montane Atlantic Forest in Santa Teresa in the state of Espírito Santo. Our analysis, based on three plastid spacers (atpF-atpH, psbK-psbl and trnS-trnG), one plastid gene (ndhF, not available for M. lucenae), and two nuclear ribosomal loci (nrITS and nrETS), showed that it belongs to a small clade with Miconia paradoxa (Mart. ex DC.) Triana (Minas Gerais) and M. michelangeliana R.Goldenb. & L.Kollmann (Espírito Santo). The three species in the “Paradoxa clade” can be recognized by the plants with glabrous or glabrescent branches and leaves, white petals and yellow stamens, these with the connectives not prolonged below the thecae, ventrally unappendaged, dorsally unappendaged or with a minute tooth, the latter bilobed or not, glabrous ovary, and the fruits with a persistent calyx. Miconia lucenae can be recognized, among the species in this clade, by the shrubby plants with terete young branches, short inflorescences, usually with red axes, and the 2-bracteolate, sessile, 4-merous flowers, with a ciliolate inner portion of the sepals, lanceolate petals, and 4-celled ovaries. This species can be considered as endangered according to IUCN criteria.

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5068 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-532
Author(s):  
DIEGO ALMEIDA-SILVA ◽  
THIAGO SILVA-SOARES ◽  
MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES ◽  
VANESSA KRUTH VERDADE

We describe a new species of dull-colored flea-toad, genus Brachycephalus, from the Atlantic Forest of Caparaó mountains in southeastern Brazil. The new species is characterized by its diminutive size, “leptodactyliform” body, brownish color with an inverted V-shaped dark mark on dorsum, skin smooth, hyperossification and dorsal shield absent, linea masculinea absent, Fingers I and IV vestigial, Toe I externally absent, Toe II reduced but functional, Toes III and IV with pointed tips, Toe V vestigial, and ventral color uniformly brown. It is a leaf litter dweller, known only from type locality in the humid forests on the eastern slopes of Parque Nacional do Caparaó mountains, a protected area in the states of Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. It is the third flea-toad occurring in the state of Espírito Santo recovered as sister to all other Brachycephalus distributed from the state of São Paulo northward in the Atlantic Forest.  


Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 309 (2) ◽  
pp. 193 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADRIANA QUINTELLA LOBÃO

The Atlantic Forest is one of two biodiversity hotspots in Brazil (Mittermeier et al. 1997, Myers et al. 2000). It is the second most diverse (Forzza et al. 2010) and threatened biome because only ca. 11.7% of the Atlantic Forest remains (Ribeiro et al. 2009). Annonaceae are well represented in the Atlantic forest with 92 species, of which 71 are endemic (Maas et al. 2015). In the State of Espírito Santo, there are 12 genera and 44 species (Maas et al. 2015). The majority of genera in Annonaceae that occur in Brazil are represented in Espírito Santo, but previously there were no records of Trigynaea Schlechtendal (1834: 328) for the State.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 255 (3) ◽  
pp. 281 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIEGO TAVARES IGLESIAS ◽  
VALQUÍRIA FERREIRA DUTRA ◽  
RENATO GOLDENBERG

Behuria mestrealvarensis (Melastomataceae) from the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, is described, illustrated and compared with B. capixaba, the species most similar to it. Behuria mestrealvarensis differs from B. capixaba by the glabrous petioles and hypanthia, by the solitary flowers or these in simple or compound triads up to 7 flowers, elliptic bracteoles almost the same size of the pedicel and hypanthium, sepals with eciliate margins and ovary apex with trichomes up to 0.5 mm. It occurs in a single locality, on an isolated, ca. 800m elev. inselberg. Due to its restricted occupancy area, fragmented landscape and poor habitat quality, this species must be considered as Critically Endangered according to IUCN criteria.


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4291 (3) ◽  
pp. 563
Author(s):  
MAÍSA DE CARVALHO GONÇALVES ◽  
MARCOS CARNEIRO NOVAES ◽  
FREDERICO FALCÃO SALLES

Specimens of Gripopterygidae (Plecoptera) from Espírito Santo State and surrounding areas in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil, were studied. A new species, Gripopteryx caparao n. sp. is described. The female of Paragripopteryx intervalensis Bispo & Lecci 2011 is described and recorded for a new site. Comments on G. garbei Navás 1936 are presented. New state records are provided for G. cancellata (Pictet 1841), G. reticulata (Brauer 1866), G. juetah Froehlich 1990, G. pilosa Froehlich 1990, P. egena Froehlich 1994, P. intervalensis Bispo & Lecci 2011, P. klapaleki Enderlein 1909, and Tupiperla gracilis (Burmeister 1839). 


Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 470 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
RODRIGO L. BORGES ◽  
PAULO HENRIQUE GAEM ◽  
NÁDIA ROQUE

Tocoyena atlantica, a new species endemic to southern Bahia and northern Espírito Santo states, Brazil, is here described and illustrated. The species consists of trees 5−8 m tall; with petioles 2−5 cm long, and leaf blades 7.4−24.5 × 2.5−9.1 cm, elliptic, adaxially glabrous; calyces cup-shaped with triangular lobes; corolla yellow during anthesis, with tube gradually wider towards the mouth; and laterally compressed hypanthia. Based on IUCN criteria, we consider T. atlantica endangered, with three collection localities within the Atlantic Forest domain. An identification key for species of Tocoyena occurring in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest is also provided.


PhytoKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Yuri Fernandes Gouvêa ◽  
Luiza Fonseca Amorim de Paula ◽  
João Renato Stehmann ◽  
Leandro Lacerda Giacomin

Solanum hydroides Gouvêa & Giacomin, sp. nov., is described from central Brazilian Atlantic Forest. It is known from only three localities in Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais states, where granitic/gneissic outcrops (inselbergs or sugar loaves) are ubiquitous. The new species, here described, belongs to Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum (or the Leptostemonum clade; i.e. the spiny solanums) and is morphologically related to S. hexandrum Vell. and S. sublentum Hiern, with which it shares the shrubby habit, decurrent leaf bases and well-developed calyces that become accrescent, covering glabrous fruits. Solanum hydroides is unique in its combination of comparatively more delicate habit, indumentum of exclusively stellate eglandular trichomes, accrescent but never inflated fruiting calyces that only partially cover the fruits and comparatively shortly lobed and strictly white corollas. The species is threatened with extinction and assessed as Vulnerable (VU), based on the IUCN criteria.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCOS SOBRAL

Eight Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest species are described and illustrated: Calyptranthes santalucia, Eugenia barrana, E. culicina, E. lacistema, E. viscacea, Myrcia basicordata, M. monoclada and Myrciaria evanida. Calyptranthes santalucia, from the state of Espírito Santo, is related to C. brasiliensis, differing for its acute leaves and pauciflorous inflorescences; Eugenia barrana, from the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, is related to E. chlorophylla, but has smaller leaves and larger flowers; Eugenia culicina, from the state of Pernambuco, is related to E. roseiflora, differing through the smaller petioles, adaxially sulcate lateral veins, pilose flowers and larger fruits; Eugenia lacistema, from Bahia, is related to E. platyphylla, differing by the inflorescences with lignified bracts and smaller pedicels;  Eugenia viscacea, from Bahia, is related to E. ellipsoidea, differing through the inflorescences with densely imbricate bracts and smaller pedicels; Myrcia basicordata, from Espírito Santo, is related to M. pubescens, but presents applanate glabrous twigs and glabrous and sessile leaves with cordate base; Myrcia monoclada, from Bahia, is related to M. riodocensis, but has larger leaves and pentamerous flowers, and Myrciaria evanida, from Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais, resembles M. floribunda, differing by the vanishing secondary veins and smaller flowers. The new species are also evaluated as to their conservation status according to IUCN criteria. Additionally, the synonymization of Eugenia apiocarpa under E. astringens and of Eugenia pleurantha under E. umbellata and the lectotypification of Eugenia ellipsoidea are proposed.


Rodriguésia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 641-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro C. S. Assis ◽  
Renato de Mello-Silva

ABSTRACT Three new species of Ocotea - O. calliscypha L. C. S. Assis & Mello-Silva, from the state of Minas Gerais, O. ciliata L. C. S. Assis & Mello-Silva, from the state of Espírito Santo, and O. marcescens L. C. S. Assis & Mello-Silva, from the states of Bahia, Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro - are described. The species are illustrated, and comments on their relationships to other species of Ocotea, distribution, habitat, and phenology are provided.


Rodriguésia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludovic Jean Charles Kollmann ◽  
André Paviotti Fontana

ABSTRACT Begonia mysteriosa L.Kollmann & A.P.Fontana, a new species known only from the municipality of São Roque do Canaã in the Atlantic Forest of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, is described and illustrated. This new species is probably related to Begonia barckleyana L.B.Sm., section Knesebeckia, from which it differs by its leaf shape, stipule size, stigma more than two branches and pistillate flowers with six tepals. Description, diagnose, illustration and comments about the geographic distribution are provided.


Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3151 (1) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDRÉ NEMÉSIO

Species of Euglossa Latreille, 1802 belonging to the Euglossa purpurea Friese, 1899 species group occurring in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil are here revised, illustrated and provided with key for their identification. Seven species of the E. purpurea group were found to occur in eastern Brazil, one of them considered as a new species, Euglossa monnei sp. n. Euglossa avicula is recorded for the first time outside the state of Espírito Santo in the Atlantic Forest and new regional records are presented for other four species. Records of E. avicula outside the Atlantic Forest are dismissed and the identity of some species is discussed.


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