Distribution extensions for species of the Passiflora subgenus&nbsp;Astrophea (DC.) Masters from Brazil (Passifloraceae s.s.)

Ana Carolina Mezzonato-Pires; Cláudia Barbieri Ferreira  Mendonça; Michaele Alvim Milward‑de-Azevedo; Vania Gonçalves-Esteves

doi:10.15560/13.5.467

Check List 13(5): 467-473, doi: 10.15560/13.5.467

Distribution extensions for species of the Passiflora subgenus Astrophea (DC.) Masters from Brazil (Passifloraceae s.s.)

Ana Carolina Mezzonato-Pires^‡, Cláudia Barbieri Ferreira Mendonça^‡, Michaele Alvim Milward‑de-Azevedo^§, Vania Gonçalves-Esteves^‡

‡ Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil§ Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Corresponding author: Ana Carolina Mezzonato-Pires ( carolina.mezzonato@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Marcelo Trovó Lopes de Oliveira

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Mezzonato-Pires AC, Mendonça CBF, Milward-de-Azevedo MA, Gonçalves-Esteves V (2017) Distribution extensions for species of the Passiflora subgenus Astrophea (DC.) Masters from Brazil (Passifloraceae s.s.). Check List 13(5): 467-473. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.5.467

Abstract

New records for species of Passiflora subgenus Astrophea are reported, contributing to the increasing distribution knowledge of the Passifloraceae in Brazil. These records are: Passiflora balbis Feuillet, from the state of Amazonas,
Passiflora ceratocarpa F. Silveira, from the states of Amapá and Amazonas, Passiflora cerradensis Sacco, from Minas Gerais, Passiflora costata Mast., from Acre, Amapá, Mato Grosso, and Roraima, and Passiflora mansoi (Mart.) Mast., from Maranhão and Tocantins.

Keywords

Amazon Rainforest; Cerrado; distribution; new records; range extension; Passifloraceae