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Lobelia vivaldii (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae), a remarkable new species of sect. Tylomium from Isla de Mona, Puerto rico

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A new species ofLobelia (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae) is described from Isla de Mona, a Caribbean island not previously known to harbor the genus. The small woody rosette-plants were collected in 1988 and 1992 at the northeastern corner of the island, where they grew from crevices in the vertical limestone cliffs, approximately 60 m above the sea. The new species,Lobelia vivaldii, belongs to sect.Tylomium, a group of approximately 36 suffruticose and woody species endemic to the Caribbean basin. Within that section, it is most similar to and apparently derived fromL. cirsiifolia, a less woody rain forest species found at higher elevations on several islands in the Lesser Antilles.

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  1. Department of Botany, Center for Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, The Field Museum, 60605-2496, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

    Thomas G. Lammers

  2. Departamento de Recursos Naturales, Herbario, Area de Investigaciones Científicas, P. O. Box 5887, 00906, Puerta de Tierra, PR, U.S.A.

    George R. Proctor

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Lammers, T.G., Proctor, G.R. Lobelia vivaldii (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae), a remarkable new species of sect. Tylomium from Isla de Mona, Puerto rico. Brittonia 46, 273–278 (1994). https://doi.org/10.2307/2806909

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