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Issue: Vol. 612 No. 1: 1 Sept. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-09-01
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.612.1.9
Page range: 99-103
Abstract views: 276
PDF downloaded: 19

Begonia piraquara (Begoniaceae) a new species from Atlantic Coastal Forest in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Herbário RBR; Departamento de Botânica; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde; Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro; BR-465; km 7; 23890-000; Seropédica; RJ; Brazil
Eudicots Atlantic Coastal Forest conservation endemism taxonomy

Abstract

Begonia piraquara is a species endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, a biome rich in endemism and species diversity, and is described and illustrated herein. Begonia piraquara resembles to B. fimbritepala E.L.Jacques in the shape of its leaf blades, but differs in having cystoliths (vs. cystoliths absent), staminate tepals with entire to slightly crenulate margins (vs. tepals with ciliate margins).

 

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