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Type: Article
Published: 2019-04-11
Page range: 133–138
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Colanthelia longipetiolata (Poaceae: Bambusoideae), a new species of woody bamboo from the Brazilian Atlantic forest

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, CCB2, 3º andar, 36570-900, Viçosa, MG, Brazil.
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Avenida Magalhães Barata, 376, São Braz, 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil.
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, 251 Bessey Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011-4009, USA.
Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, CCB2, 3º andar, 36570-900, Viçosa, MG, Brazil.
Arthrostylidiinae endemic species PARNA Caparaó woody bamboos Monocots

Abstract

Colanthelia is a woody bamboo genus belonging to the Arthrostylidiinae and currently includes nine species. It can be recognized by a suite of morphological characters including hollow and thick-walled culms, branch complement with a promontory in the base and a dominant divergent branch bearing few to many secondary small branchlets from its base, culm leaves with a relatively well developed girdle and a crest or skirt at the juncture of the sheath and girdle, racemose or weakly paniculate synflorescences, and relatively long and narrow spikelets with visible rachilla internodes. During recent fieldwork in Minas Gerais state, a new species, Colanthelia longipetiolata, from the Brazilian Atlantic forest was collected, which is here described and illustrated. So far as we know, the species is endemic to the Caparaó National Park, in Minas Gerais state. Comments on its habitat, distribution and conservation status, a morphological comparison between C. longipetiolata and C. sparsiflora, and a revised identification key to all species of the genus are provided.