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Type: Article
Published: 2018-07-06
Page range: 235–250
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Two new species of Chusquea subg. Swallenochloa (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae) from Minas Gerais, Brazil, and complete description of C. caparaoensis

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica – Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, CEP: 36570-900, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica – Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, CEP: 36570-900, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, CCB2, 3° andar, CEP: 36570-900, Viçosa, MG, Brazil.
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, 251 Bessey Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011-4009, USA.
Atlantic forest bamboo Chusqueinae high elevation grassland taxonomy Monocots

Abstract

Two new species included in Chusquea subg. Swallenochloa, C. fruticosa and C. imbricata, are here described and illustrated, and comments on their morphology, conservation status and distribution are provided. Reproductive structures of Chusquea caparaoensis, a species of this subgenus previously known only vegetatively, are described for the first time. Chusquea caparaoensis is here emended and illustrated, and comments about its morphology, conservation status and distribution are provided. Revised keys are provided based on vegetative and vegetative plus reproductive characters for the Brazilian species of C. subg. Swallenochloa.