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Issue: Vol. 329 No. 3: 1 December 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-12-01
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.329.3.6
Page range: 253–261
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 2

Old for people, new for science: a previously undescribed species of harvested Vellozia (Velloziaceae) endemic to the Chapada Diamantina National Park, Bahia (Brazil)

Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Biologia, Avenida Transnordestina, S/N, 44036-900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Biologia, Avenida Transnordestina, S/N, 44036-900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Biologia, Avenida Transnordestina, S/N, 44036-900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Botânica, Rua do Matão, 277, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
campos rupestres new species rupestrian grassland Serra do Sincorá useful plant Monocots

Abstract

The overharvesting of a plant can disturb population dynamics, threatening the species (Ticktin 2004, Rolland et al. 2011). This is especially true for narrowly restricted ones (IUCN 2017), such as the ‘candombá’, endemic to the Chapada Diamantina National Park (CDNP), northeastern Brazil. The extent of occurrence of the candombá is less than 200 km2 (Conceição et al. 2017), and the plant has been traditionally used to ignite fires in wood stoves (Ministério do Meio Ambiente 2007, Oliveira et al. 2013, 2015), with this use continuing today.