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Miconia atlantica, a new species of Melastomataceae from the eastern mountains of Brazil

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A new species of Miconia from the mountains in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil is presented here. Miconia atlantica has been collected in the states of São Paulo and Espírito Santo. It belongs to section Glossocentrum and can be recognized among others species in this section by the leaves with acute bases, an indumentum consisting of stellate trichomes moderately covering the abaxial surface of mature leaves, glomerulate inflorescences, and stamens with unappendaged connectives. Marsupiform domatia were found in São Paulo populations.

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Acknowledgments

We thank L. S. Pereira and G. Lunhani for fieldwork guidance; Diana Carneiro for the line drawings; and the two manuscript reviewers. The authors are recipients of a Ph.D. scholarship (MKC) and a “Produtividade em Pesquisa” grant (RG) from CNPq.

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  1. Programa de Pós Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Postal Code 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Mayara Krasinski Caddah

  2. Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Postal Code 19031, 81531-970, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    Renato Goldenberg

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Caddah, M.K., Goldenberg, R. Miconia atlantica, a new species of Melastomataceae from the eastern mountains of Brazil. Brittonia 65, 351–356 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-012-9291-8

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