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Type: Article
Published: 2020-05-12
Page range: 205–214
Abstract views: 28
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A new species of Trixis (Nassauvieae, Asteraceae) from the Center of Plant Diversity of Cabo Frio, Brazil

Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, UFU, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil. Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biologia, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Escola Nacional de Botânica Tropical, JBRJ, Rio de janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Compositae Mutisioideae restinga vegetation southeastern Brazil threatened species Eudicots

Abstract

Trixis salina is a new endemic species from restinga vegetation of the Center of Plant Diversity of Cabo Frio region in Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil. It grows in rocky ravines, rocky shores, and in shrubby restinga. The new species is morphologically similar to Trixis antimenorhoea; however, they differ in habit, branches, trichomes, leaf morphology, involucral bracts, and number of flowers per head. The preliminary conservation status assessment shows that Trixis salina must be included in Endangered (EN) category.