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Issue: Vol. 265 No. 1: 9 June 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-09
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.265.1.9
Page range: 85–91
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 3

Eleocharis pedrovianae, a new species of Cyperaceae from Northern Brazil (Serra dos Carajás, Pará State)

Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas – Botânica Tropical, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - MPEG, Campus de Pesquisa. Av. Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, 66077-530, Belém, PA, Brazil Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - MPEG, Campus de Pesquisa, Coordenação de Botânica - CBO. Av. Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, 66077-530, Belém, PA, Brazil
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - MPEG, Campus de Pesquisa, Coordenação de Botânica - CBO. Av. Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, 66077-530, Belém, PA, Brazil
Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC. Trindade, 88040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
Amazon canga (ferric soil) Neotropics new species Eleocharis ser. Tenuissimae Monocots

Abstract

Eleocharis pedrovianae is a new species of Cyperaceae from the Serra dos Carajás (Pará State, Brazil), herein described and illustrated. This species lives as a submerged herb in wetlands, marshes and margins of temporary lakes and lagoons with ferric soil (canga). It is morphologically similar to Eleocharis angustispicula, differing by its stoloniferous stem system, the presence of chasmogamous basal spikelets, a perianth of 4(5) bristles, an  ellipsoid achene, and a stylopodium that is brown pyramidal, and separated from the achene body by a constriction.