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Issue: Vol. 501 No. 2: 20 May 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-05-20
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.501.2.4
Page range: 293–296
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 1

Myrcia excelsa (Myrtaceae), a new species from Espírito Santo, Brazil

Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia, Sistemática e Conservação de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Campus Sorocaba, Rodovia João Leme dos Santos (SP-264), km 110, 18052-780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil
Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Pacheco Leão, 915, 22460-030, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, TW9 3AB, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia, Sistemática e Conservação de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Campus Sorocaba, Rodovia João Leme dos Santos (SP-264), km 110, 18052-780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil
Eudicots Myrtaceae

Abstract

Myrcia De Candolle (1827: 401) (Myrciinae, Myrteae, Myrtaceae) is represented by 101 species in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo (Santos et al. 2020). In addition, a new endemic species is here proposed based on a unique combination of morphological features. Morphological terminology follows Radford et al. (1974) and Lucas et al. (2018). A conservation assessment is proposed according to the IUCN (2012). For this, geographic coordinates of collections were estimated from specimen labels when missing and geographical parameters were calculated using GeoCAT (Bachman et al. 2011).