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Issue: Vol. 671 No. 1: 7 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-07
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.671.1.7
Page range: 105-112
Abstract views: 191
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Microlicia ferricola (Lavoisiereae), a new species of Melastomataceae from the Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Pacheco Leão 915, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Avenida São Paulo 3996, Ibirité, MG, Brazil.
Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Avenida São Paulo 3996, Ibirité, MG, Brazil.
Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Rua Ceará 1084, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil.
Canga Espinhaço Range Iron soil Mining activities Serra do Rola-Moça State Park Eudicots

Abstract

Here, we describe Microlicia ferricola, a newly discovered species exclusive to the Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais state. Additionally, we provide an illustration plate, field images, occurrence map, and comparisons with its morphological relatives such as M. longicalycina, M. woodgyeriana, and M. trichocalycina. This new species is characterized by its green-reddish to reddish branches, leaves, hypanthia, and sepals covered with glandular trichomes, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate leaves, setose at the apices, campanulate-oblong hypanthia, long-triangular sepals, dimorphic and bicolorous androecium with tetrasporangiate anthers. Microlicia ferricola is found in the Serra do Rola-Moça State Park and is considered a Least Concern (LC) taxon since it is within a conservation unit, ensuring its preservation.

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