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Issue: Vol. 635 No. 1: 22 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.635.1.6
Page range: 98-104
Abstract views: 146
PDF downloaded: 16

A new species of Ruellia L. (Ruellieae, Acanthaceae) from Goiás state, Brazil

Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Chácara Califórnia, CP 131, 74045-155, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Laboratório de Filogenia Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Goiás, CP 131, 74001-970, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Cerrado Conservation Cerradicola taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Taxonomic studies about Ruellia from Goiás state, Brazil, ongoing, revealed a new species, R. kalungae, that it is here described and illustrated, and systematically positioned. The novel species is similar to Ruellia nitens in the subshubby erect habit, leaves light green and corolla infundibuliform. However, it differs from the latter by several characters related specially to the shapes and indument of the leaves, bracts and capsules, inflorescence type, aspect and size of the calyx lacinia, presence de bracteoles, and number and shape of the seeds.

 

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