Check List 15(5): 863-866, doi: 10.15560/15.5.863
First record of Gymnosiphon tenellus (Benth.) Urb. (Burmanniaceae) in Paraná state and southern Brazil
Inti de Souza‡, Christopher Thomas Blum‡, Marcelo Leandro Brotto§‡ Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil§ Municipal Botanical Museum of Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
Corresponding author: Inti de Souza ( intidesouza@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Guilherme Dubal dos Santos Seger © Inti de Souza, Christopher Thomas Blum, Marcelo Leandro Brotto. 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:
de Souza I, Blum CT, Brotto ML (2019) First record of Gymnosiphon tenellus (Benth.) Urb. (Burmanniaceae) in Paraná state and southern Brazil. Check List 15(5): 863-866. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.5.863 |  |
Abstract
Gymnosiphon tenellus (Bentham) Urban is recorded for the first time in the state of Paraná and in southern Brazil. Until now it has only been known to occur in Central America, the Amazonian Rainforest, and in the Atlantic Rainforest of the state of Rio de Janeiro in southeastern Brazil. An updated description is provided, along with original, detailed pictures of the species.
Keywords
Araucaria Rainforest, myco-heterotrophic plants, saprophytes