Taxonomic notes on Leandra cordifolia (Melastomataceae)

MAYARA KRASINSKI CADDAH; JULIA MEIRELLES

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.357.2.11

Issue: Vol. 357 No. 2: 22 June 2018

Type: Correspondence

Published: 2018-06-22

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.357.2.11

Page range: 164–166

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**Taxonomic notes on Leandra cordifolia (Melastomataceae)**

MAYARA KRASINSKI CADDAH⁺⁻
JULIA MEIRELLES⁺⁻

Departamento de Botânica, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Trindade, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina,88040-900, Brazil.

Melastomataceae Eudicots

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Abstract

A recent survey on Melastomataceae from the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil (Feldhaus et al. in prep.) revealed the problematic circumscription among Leandra cordifolia (Naudin) Cogniaux (1886: 98) and related taxa, here formally treated in order to untangle the case.