Corresponding author: Maria Cristina de Souza ( mcs122005@yahoo.com.br ) Corresponding author: Andrea Alejandra Cabaña Fader ( andrecabfader@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Guilherme Dubal dos Santos Seger © Maria Cristina de Souza, Andrea Alejandra Cabaña Fader, Marcos Silveira, Marcus Vinícius Athaydes Liesenfeld. 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:
Souza MC, Fader AAC, Silveira M, Liesenfeld MVA (2020) Diodia kuntzei K. Schum (Rubiaceae, Spermacoceae): a new record for the state of Acre, Brazil. Check List 16(3): 675-679. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.3.675 |
Diodia kuntzei (Rubiaceae, Spermacoceae) is prostrate herb, rooting at the nodes, with reddish stems, multifimbriate stipules, axillary one-two-flowered inflorescences, corolla with filiform tube, and indehiscent fruit. The species is recorded for the first time for the state of Acre, where it was found in Alto Juruá region, municipality of Cruzeiro do Sul, in waterlogged habitat (07°33′32″S, 072°42′59″W). Images of the plant and comments on its habitat and distribution are provided.