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Issue: Vol. 730 No. 2: 19 Nov. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-11-19
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.730.2.3
Page range: 149-162
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Two new species of Calea (Asteraceae: Neurolaeneae) from Bahia, Brazil

Fundação de Parques Municipais e Zoobotânica, Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte, Herbário BHZB, Avenida Otacílio Negrão de Lima, 8000, Pampulha, 31365 450, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Campus Umuarama, Rua Ceará s.n., Bloco 2D, 38405-240, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Instituto de Biologia, Campus Ondina, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo s.n., 40170-115, Salvador, Bahia Brazil
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí, Avenida Joaquim Manoel, s/n, Novo Horizonte, Valença do Piauí - PI, 64300-000, Brazil
Embrapa Clima Temperado, Rodovia BR 392, km 78, Caixa Postal 403, Pelotas, RS 96010-971, Brazil
Caatinga Cerrado Compositae Neotropics Eudicots

Abstract

In the previous studies of Calea in Bahia, some specimens were treated as C. candolleana but their morphology was called “particularly distinct”. Detailed studies on the currently accepted species and these specimens demonstrated that they represent two new species. Calea flagelliformis resembles C. candolleana, but differs from the latter by the villous (vs. pubescent to hispid) indumentum of stems, leaves and peduncles, and sessile (vs. petiolate, 1.5–4 mm) leaves. Calea nakajimae differs from C. candolleana by the lanceolate or ovate (vs. elliptic) leaf limb, and pappus scales 0.5–1.2 mm long (vs. 0.2–0.3 mm long). These new species are described, illustrated, mapped, and their conservation status and taxonomic affinities are discussed.

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How to Cite

Bueno, V.R., Roque, N., Reis-Silva, G.A. & Heiden, G. (2025) Two new species of Calea (Asteraceae: Neurolaeneae) from Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 730 (2): 149–162. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.730.2.3