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Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-01
Page range: 59–66
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A new species of Sauvagesia (Ochnaceae) from the northern Espinhaço Range, Brazil, and an emended description of Sauvagesia paganuccii

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, 44036-900, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, 45662-900, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau, Herbário CEPEC, 45650-970, Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Ondina, 40170-115, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Bahia Malpighiales taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

The new species Sauvagesia insolita (Ochnaceae) is described and illustrated from campo rupestre vegetation of Sete Passagens State Park, in the northeastern most portion of the Espinhaço Range in Bahia, Brazil. Sauvagesia insolita is morphologically similar to the recently described S. paganuccii, for which we also provide an emended description. These species share an unusual floral polymorphism, where some flowers of the same individual bear free, filamentous staminodes external to the corona-like fused staminodal whorl, which is a feature newly reported for Salvagesia subsect. Vellozianae. They differ mainly by the shape and size of the leaves and the number of flowers per inflorescence.