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Issue: Vol. 642 No. 4: 3 Apr. 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-04-03
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.642.4.10
Page range: 297-298
Abstract views: 5
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A new combination in Myrcia (Myrtaceae) from Brazil

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento e Uso de Recursos Renováveis. Universidade Federal de São Carlos - campus Sorocaba, Rod. João Leme dos Santos, km 110, 18052-780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255, 18083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento e Uso de Recursos Renováveis. Universidade Federal de São Carlos - campus Sorocaba, Rod. João Leme dos Santos, km 110, 18052-780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil; Universidade Federal de São Carlos, campus Sorocaba, Departamento de Ciências Ambientais, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias para a Sustentabilidade, Rod. João Leme dos Santos km 110, 18052-780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil
Eudicots Myrtaceae Myrcia Brazil

Abstract

Myrcia De Candolle (1827: 406) is the second most species-rich genus of Myrtaceae in the Neotropics, with ca. 800 species (POWO 2023). About half of these species occur in Brazil (Santos et al. 2023). During the taxonomic study of Myrtaceae collections in São Paulo, it became evident that nomenclatural and taxonomic adjustments were necessary for one species of Myrcia, which we propose in the present work. Images of materials available online are cited by reference to herbarium acronyms (following Thiers 2023) and were consulted online via CRIA (2023) and JSTOR (2023).

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