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Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-11
Page range: 163–173
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Three new endangered species of Trembleya DC. (Melastomataceae: Microlicieae) from Minas Gerais, Brazil

Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Pós-Graduação em Biologia Comparada. Av. Colombo, 5790, Jardim Universitário, CEP 87020-900, Maringá, PR, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Departamento de Biologia, Pós-Graduação em Biologia Comparada. Av. Colombo, 5790, Jardim Universitário, CEP 87020-900, Maringá, PR, Brazil.
endemism Espinhaço Range Serra do Cabral Eudicots Brazil

Abstract

During the preparation of a monograph of Trembleya DC. (Melastomataceae) three new species were found that are here described and illustrated: Trembleya acuminata can be recognized by its ovate and vernicose leaves with an acuminate-cuspidate apex, 6-merous flowers, and 4-locular ovary. Trembleya botaensis and Trembleya thomazii are closely related, differing by the indumentum with only sessile glands, white/purple colored petals, calyx lobes without a glandular apical seta, and by the apically rounded connective of the antesepalous stamens in Trembleya thomazii.