Check List 16(2): 395-400, doi: 10.15560/16.2.395
New records of Phyllanthus (Phyllanthaceae) for the Brazilian northeastern Atlantic Forest, and re-collection of the rare species Phyllanthus carvalhoi G.L. Webster
Alicia Marques Torres‡, Sarah Maria Athiê de Souza§, Jone Clebson Ribeiro Mendes‡, Wesley Patrício Freire de Sá Cordeiro‡, Margareth Ferreira de Sales|‡ Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil§ Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil| Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Corresponding author: Sarah Maria Athiê de Souza ( sarah_athie@yahoo.com.br ) Academic editor: Juliana de Paula-Souza © Alicia Marques Torres, Sarah Maria Athiê de Souza, Jone Clebson Ribeiro Mendes, Wesley Patrício Freire de Sá Cordeiro, Margareth Ferreira de Sales. 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:
Torres AM, Athiê-Souza SM, Mendes JCR, Cordeiro WPFS, Sales MF (2020) New records of Phyllanthus (Phyllanthaceae) for the Brazilian northeastern Atlantic Forest, and re-collection of the rare species Phyllanthus carvalhoi G.L. Webster. Check List 16(2): 395-400. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.2.395 |  |
Abstract
During a taxonomic study of Phyllanthaceae in northeastern Brazil, three new occurrences of Phyllanthus were recorded (P. augustini Baill, P. hyssopifolioides Kunth., and P. riedelianus Müll. Arg.), and diagnoses, distribution information, conservation statuses, as well as affinity comments are provided here. Additionally, the rare species Phyllanthus carvalhoi G.L. Webster was collected, which is endemic to the Atlantic Forest in Bahia State, and we provide an updated morphological description, conservation status, photographs, and unpublished illustrations.
Keywords
Endangered species, Bahia, endemism, taxonomy