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Issue: Vol. 246 No. 3: 12 February 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-02-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.246.3.4
Page range: 198–202
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 1

Mucuna chiapaneca (Leguminosae—Papilionoideae) a new species from Mexico

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Biología, Departamento de Botánica, Apdo. Postal 70-233. 04510 México, D.F.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato 255, Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz, Barão Geraldo. Campinas, SP 13083-862, Brasil
Fabaceae Mesoamerican Flora new taxon systematics Eudicots

Abstract

Mucuna chiapaneca a new species from Chiapas, Mexico is here described, and illustrated. Six species of Mucuna occur in Mexico, two of them are endemic. A table is provided giving the diagnostic characteristics among the six species.