Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-06-13
Page range: 193–196
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Trigynaea (Annonaceae) endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Biologia Geral, R. Outeiro de São João Batista s/n, 24020-141, Niterói-RJ, Brazil
Trigynaea Annonaceae Brazil Magnoliids

Abstract

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.