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Issue: Vol. 455 No. 2: 10 August 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-08-10
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.455.2.8
Page range: 167–172
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Phyllanthus L. (Phyllanthaceae) with phylloclades from Minas Gerais, Brazil

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Instituto de Biologia, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255, Cidade Universitária, 13083-862, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Instituto de Botânica (IBt), Secretaria do Meio Ambiente do Estado de São Paulo, CEP 04301-902, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Instituto de Biologia, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255, Cidade Universitária, 13083-862, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ), Avenida Pádua Dias, 11, CEP 13418-900, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Atlantic rain forest South America taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

We described a new species of Phyllanthus currently known from a single fragment of Ombrophilous Dense Forest in the Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Phyllanthus pedicellatus is the second species of the genus with
phylloclades found in the Atlantic Forest domain, once mostly Brazilian Phyllanthus with these kinds of specialized branches grow in open vegetation as “campos rupestres” and cerrado. The name is a reference to its remarkable pedicels of pistillate flowers. We present illustrations and photographs of the new species in its habitat, comments on its relationships to other Brazilian Phyllanthus, and its conservation status.