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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-06-22
Page range: 92–95
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Marsdenia microcarpa, a new species of Marsdenia (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae) from montane Guerrero, Mexico

Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado postal 70–367, México, D. F. 04510, México
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70–283, México, D. F. 04510, México
Malinaltepec Pseudomarsdenia taxonomy Eudicots Mexico

Abstract

A new species of Marsdenia (Apocynaceae; Asclepiadoideae) is described from the mountain cloud forest in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. Marsdenia microcarpa is distinguished from other species of the genus by its gynostegial corona lobes oblong-ovate, adnate to the gynostegium, free, erect or divergent obtuse apices, margins of lobes connate at base, corpuscle with rostrate apex, narrowly fusiform follicles of less than 5 cm at maturity. A key to the species of Marsdenia in the state of Guerrero is presented.