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Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-28
Page range: 159–166
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Three new species of the CyatheaHymenophyllopsis” clade (Cyatheaceae) from Venezuela and Brazil

Programa de Pós graduação em Biodiversidade e Bioteconlogia da Rede BIONORTE, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, CEP 66017-970, Belém, PA, Brazil.
Nees-Institut für Biodiversität der Pflanzen, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Meckenheimer Allee 170, D-53115 Bonn, Germany.
Instituto de Botânica, C.P. 68041, 04045-972, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Instituto de Botânica, C.P. 68041, 04045-972, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Cyatheales endemic ferns Guayana Shield Neotropics subgenus Hymenophyllopsis tepuis Pteridophytes

Abstract

Three new species of Cyathea, two from Venezuela and one from Venezuela and the border region between Venezuela and Brazil, are here described: Cyathea alsophiloides, C. cylindrica, and C. lellingeriana. These species are endemic to the tepuis of the Guayana Shield and occur mainly at high elevations (1850–2555 m, although C. lellingeriana also grows down to 770 m). Descriptions, illustrations and mapped distributions are provided for each species, and their similarities to and differences from other species of the Hymenophyllopsis clade in Cyathea are discussed.