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Issue: Vol. 313 No. 2: 14 July 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.313.2.2
Page range: 166–174
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 1

Chusquea kleinii, a new bamboo from the Atlantic forests of Brazil segregated from C. capituliflora (Poaceae: Bambusoideae)

Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Avenida Transnordestina s/n, Novo Horizonte, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 44036-900, Brazil. Colegiado de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Pernambuco, Rodovia BR 203, Km 2, s/n, Vila Eduardo, Petrolina, Pernambuco,56328-903, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Avenida Transnordestina s/n, Novo Horizonte, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 44036-900, Brazil.
Colegiado de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, BR-407, Km 12, Vila CS-01, Petrolina, Pernambuco, 56300-990, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Avenida Transnordestina s/n, Novo Horizonte, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 44036-900, Brazil.
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, 251 Bessey Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011-1020, USA.
Chusqueinae montane forest taxonomy woody bamboo Monocots

Abstract

A new species belonging to the woody bamboo genus Chusquea (Poaceae, Bambusoideae) is herein segregated from C. capituliflora and described as C. kleinii, based upon observations of macromorphological characters made on living plants in the field, and the micromorphology of leaf surfaces, especially papillae on the abaxial epidermis. Both taxa are endemic to the southern Brazilian Atlantic forest.