Summary
Bonamia linearifolia A.L.C.Moreira & Sim.-Bianch., a new species from the Cerrado of Central Brazil, is described and illustrated; its distinctive morphological characters are discussed and compared with other related species.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Austin, D. F. (1982). Convolvulaceae. In: Z. L. Febres & J. A. Steyermark (eds), Flora de Venezuela, Vol. 8 (3): 15 – 226. Fondo Editorial Acta Científica Venezolana, Caracas.
Austin, D. F. (1988). The Rarest Morning Glory. Bull. Fairchild Bot. Gard. 43(3): 22 – 28.
BFG (2015). Growing knowledge: an overview of Seed Plant diversity in Brazil. Rodriguésia 66(4): 1085 – 1113.
GeoCAT (2017). Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Available from: http://geocat.kew.org/. Accessed 10 Jan. 2017.
Gentry, A. & Austin, D. F. (1988) [1989]. New species and a new combination for plants from Trans-Andean South America. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: 1429 – 1439.
González, E. C. & Sandoval, H. L. (2016). Bonamia chontalensis, a new species of Convolvulaceae from Oaxaca and a key to the genus in Mexico. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 143(3): 325 – 329.
Hallier, H. (1893). Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung der Convolvulaceen auf morphologischer und anatomischer Grundlage. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16(4 – 5): 453 – 591.
Hickey, L. J. (1979). A revised classification of the architecture dicotyledonous leaves. In: C. R. Metcalfe & L. Chalk (eds), Anatomy of the Dicotyledons, pp. 25 – 39. Clarendon, Oxford.
IUCN (2001). Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 3.1. IUCN Species Survival Commission. IUCN, Gland and Cambridge.
Johnson, R. W. (1987). Three New Species of Bonamia Thouars (Convolvulaceae) From Central Australia. Austrobaileya 2(4): 405 – 407.
Johnson, R. W. (2014). Six new species of Bonamia Thouars. (Convolvulaceae) from northern Australia. Austrobaileya 9: 292 – 310.
Mabberley, D. J. (1997). The plant-book; a portable dictionary of the vascular plants. Second edition. Cambridge University Press.
McDonald, J. A. (1987). Three new species of Convolvulaceae from northeast México. Brittonia 39: 106 – 111.
Moreira, A. L. C., Antar, G. M., Simão-Bianchini, R. & Cavalcanti, T. B. (2017). Contribution to the knowledge of Bonamia (Convolvulaceae) in Brazil: a new species and a new occurrence. Phytotaxa 306(2): 146 – 152. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.306.2.4.
Moreira, A. L. C., Simão-Bianchini, R. & Cavalcanti, T. B. (2018). Two new species of. Bonamia (Convolvulaceae) endemic to the Brazilian Cerrado. Phytotaxa 361(1): 106 – 114. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.361.1.9.
Myint, T. (1966). Revision of the genus Stylisma (Convolvulaceae). Brittonia 18: 97 – 117.
Myint, T. & Ward, D. B. (1968). A taxonomic revision of the genus Bonamia (Convolvulaceae). Phytologia 17: 121 – 239.
QGIS Development Team (2016). QGIS Geographic Information System: Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Available from: http://qgis.osgeo.org. Accessed 10 December 2016.
Radford, A. E., Dickison, W. C., Massey, J. R. & Bell, C. R. (1974). Vascular Plant Systematics. Harper & Row Publishers, New York.
Shinners, L. H. (1962). Synopsis of United States Bonamia including Breweria and Stylisma (Convolvulaceae). Castanea 27: 65 – 77.
Simão-Bianchini, R., Ferreira, P. P. A. & Pastore, M. (2015). Convolvulaceae. In: Lista de Espécies da Flora do Brasil. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. Available in: <http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/jabot/floradobrasil/FB93>
Thiers, B. (continuously updated). Index Herbariorum: a global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available from <http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/>, accessed 20 January 2017.
Wood, J. R. I. (2013). Bonamia (Convolvulaceae) in Bolivia. Kew Bull. 68: 1 – 12.
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ Retrieved **
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq - 311738/2016-8) for their support. We also thank Darli Nuza for providing the line drawing, the curators of the herbaria visited, Alexander Rockinger for suggestions on the manuscript, and Eduardo Toledo de Amorim for creating the species distribution map and Maria Rosa Zanatta for elucidating the conservation status of species.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Publisher’s Note
Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
da Costa Moreira, A.L., Simão-Bianchini, R. & Cavalcanti, T.B. Bonamia linearifolia (Convolvulaceae), a new species from the Brazilian Cerrado. Kew Bull 74, 10 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-019-9798-1
Accepted:
Published:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-019-9798-1