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A new species of Paloue (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae: Detarieae) from Guyana, South America

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Paloue sandwithii is described and illustrated from Kaieteur region, Guyana, South America. Characters that distinguish it from the other species of Paloue are the presence of five subequal petals and large coriaceous leaves with prominent venation on the underside of the lamina.

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I thank my advisor Patrick Herendeen; without his guidance, support, and mentorship this work would not have been possible. I also thank numerous collaborators for their ideas, discussions, expertise, and observations, in particular, Sarah Alexander, Vicki Funk, Tom Hollowell, Carol Kelloff, Gwilym Lewis, and Kenneth Wurdack. I thank Alice Tangerini (US) for her exceptional drawing of the new species. As always this work would not have been possible without the cooperation and collaboration of the herbaria that provided access to collections and facilitated loans (BM, F, K, MO, NY, P, U, US, and WAG). I thank the reviewers, Gwilym Lewis and Enrique Forero, for their constructive comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this manuscript. The government of Guyana, along with various agencies, and the University of Guyana helped facilitate my field work. A special thanks to my local Amerindian guides, especially Claudius Perry and Paul Benjamin and my EPA counterpart Elford Liverpool. This work was part of my dissertation and was supported by National Science Foundation DEB-0316375 and Dissertation Improvement Grants (DEB-0408041), the Smithsonian Institution’s Biodiversity of the Guianas Program, the New York Botanical Garden’s 2004 Rupert Barneby Award, and Sigma Xi-George Washington University, Grants-in-Aid award, 2003. This is number 129 in the Smithsonian’s Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program publication series.

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Redden, K.M. A new species of Paloue (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae: Detarieae) from Guyana, South America. Brittonia 60, 257–260 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-008-9037-9

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