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Type: Article
Published: 2014-10-31
Page range: 109–114
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Novelties in Oxypetalum (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) for the Argentine Flora

Biologia Vegetal, CCBS, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Universitário, 79070-900, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas, Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, Sargento Cabral 2131, Corrientes, Argentina.
Biodiversity IUCN Red List Misiones new records new species Oxypetalum teyucuarense taxonomy

Abstract

Including the results reported in this paper, there are 41 species of Oxypetalum (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae) that occur in Argentina, eight of them endemic: O. arenicola, O. fontellae, O. gracile, O. lynchianum, O. longipedunculatum, O. pubescens, O. tucumanense and O. teyucuarense. The last is a new species from the Paraje Teyú Cuaré, San Ignacio, Misiones Province, Argentina, which is described and illustrated here. It shares some morphological features with O. jorgensenii, but, overall, it does not closely resemble any other species of the genus morphologically in its unique assemblage of characteristics. In addition to this new species, we here report two additional species for the first time in Argentina.