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Diplazium mickelii — a new species of Woodsiaceae from Brazil

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A new species, Diplazium mickelii Mynssen & Sylvestre, only known from the mountain forests of Espírito Santo, Brazil, is described and illustrated.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Maria Alice Rezende for the illustration and the curators of the herbaria (B, K, MBML, NY, P, RB) visited during the study. This work was supported by the Kew Latin America Research Fellowship Programme — Prance Fellowship in Neotropical Botany in 2007. Thanks also to CNPq, for financial support to the second author (Proc. Number 308130/2003-0).

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  1. Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Diretoria de Pesquisa Científica, Rua Pacheco Leão 915,, 22460-030, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    C. M. Mynssen

  2. Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Botânica, BR 465 Km 7, Seropédica, 23890-000, RJ, Brazil

    L. S. Sylvestre

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Mynssen, C.M., Sylvestre, L.S. Diplazium mickelii — a new species of Woodsiaceae from Brazil. Kew Bull 64, 549–552 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-009-9122-6

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