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Three new species of Bernardia (Euphorbiaceae) from coastal forests of Bahia, Brazil

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:Bernardia erecta, B. monoica, and B. stylosa (Euphorbiaceae-Acalyphoideae), from Bahia Coastal Forests in Brazil, are described, illustrated, and compared to morphologically similar taxa. We also provide information about the distribution, habitat, and conservation status of the new species.

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:Bernardia erecta, B. monoica e B. stylosa (Acalyphoideae: Euphorbiaceae) das Florestas Costeiras da Bahia, Brasil, são descritas e ilustradas, e comparadas com taxa morfologicamente semelhantes. Aliás, fornecemos informações sobre a distribuição geográfica, habitat e status de conservação das novas espécies.

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Acknowledgements

This study is part of the doctoral thesis of the first author, developed at PPGBot in UEFS, and it was partially financed by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. We thank the following persons: Klei Sousa for the line drawings; Cleiton Pessoa, José Lima da Paixão, Lucas Daneu, Rafael Gomes, and Renata Asprino for field support; Cíntia Kameyama for information about the collection location of Bernardia monoica; Piera Ostroski for kindly providing a shapefile of the Bahia Coastal Forest area; and Nathan Smith for reviewing the English. JFC thanks the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) (grant #141302/2016-0) and CAPES (grant #8882.461665/2019-01) for the Ph.D. fellowship, the Missouri Botanical Garden for the Shirley A. Graham Fellowship in Systematic Botany and Biogeography 2017, and the Smithsonian Institution for the Cuatrecasas Fellowship Award 2018. AMA and IC thank the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq for the research productivity grants (#312404/2018-2 and # 309917/2015-8, respectively).

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  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica (PPGBot), Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Avenida Transnordestina s/n, Novo Horizonte, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 44036-900, Brazil

    Juan F. Carrión & André M. Amorim

  2. Instituto de Botânica, Secretaria do Meio Ambiente, Avenida Miguel Stéfano, 3687, São Paulo, São Paulo, 01061-970, Brazil

    Inês Cordeiro

  3. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Km 16 rod. Ilhéus-Itabuna, Ilhéus, Bahia, 45600-970, Brazil

    André M. Amorim

  4. Herbário Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau, CEPEC, Rodovia Ilhéus-Itabuna, Km 22, Ilhéus, Bahia, 45650-000, Brazil

    André M. Amorim

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Carrión, J.F., Cordeiro, I. & Amorim, A.M. Three new species of Bernardia (Euphorbiaceae) from coastal forests of Bahia, Brazil. Brittonia 73, 323–333 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-021-09670-z

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