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New circumscription, morphology and synopsis of Chamaecrista sect. Chamaecrista ser. Coriaceae (Leguminosae)

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A new circumscription of Chamaecrista sect. Chamaecrista ser. Coriaceae is presented based on the results of molecular and morphological analyses. The series is monophyletic upon exclusion of three species that were included within it by Irwin and Barneby. Morphological variation within the series is discussed. Characters previously neglected, such as the detailed morphology of extrafloral nectaries and the position of stamens, are shown to be valuable for taxonomic purposes. The synopsis includes three neotypifications (C. cinerascens, C. mucronata, C. rotundata var. grandistipula), two new synonymizations (C. papillata under C. arrojadoana, and C. rotundata var. grandistipula under C. rotundata var. rotundata), and a new combination (C. arrojadoana). A key for identification of the species, lists of specimens analysed, notes on taxonomy, nomenclature, and geographic distribution of the taxa, as well as illustrations of diagnostic characters are presented. In the new circumscription, the series comprises nineteen species, two of them each further divided into two varieties, to give a total of 21 taxa, distributed mainly in the Brazilian Central Plateau.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the cited herbaria for granting access to their collections, especially the New York Botanical Garden (NY) for the opportunity to work in the digitization of the NYBG Herbarium project funded by the National Science Foundation, grant DBI-0749751. We also thank Anselmo Nogueira, Daniela Zappi, Leonardo M. Borges, and Maurício Takashi C. Watanabe for assistance with fieldwork, Danilo José Souza for carefully reviewing the list of specimens examined, and Leonardo M. Borges and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments on the manuscript. This paper is part of the Ph.D. thesis of J. G. Rando conducted at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Financial support to the first author was provided by the São Paulo Research Foudation (FAPESP process 2009/16434-4 and FAPESP-BEPE 2013/09374-0) and the Bahia Research Foudantion (FAPESB process 10082/2015); financial support to the second author was provided by CNPq.

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  1. Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Ambientais, Centro das Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia, Rua Prof. José Seabra de Lemos 316, Barreiras, Bahia, Brazil

    Juliana Gastaldello Rando

  2. Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 277, São Paulo, Brazil

    José Rubens Pirani

  3. Programa de Pós Graduação em Botânica, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feirade Santana, Km 03 BR 116, Campus Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil

    Matheus Martins Teixeira Cota

  4. Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology Department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, UK

    Gwilym Peter Lewis

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Rando, J.G., Pirani, J.R., Cota, M.M.T. et al. New circumscription, morphology and synopsis of Chamaecrista sect. Chamaecrista ser. Coriaceae (Leguminosae). Brittonia 71, 268–298 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-019-09569-w

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