Check List 18(1): 139-145, doi: 10.15560/18.1.139
Expansion of the geographic distribution of a Brazilian endemic, Encyclia gonzalezii L.C. Menezes (Orchidaceae, Epidendroideae), to the Cerrado of Maranhão and the Northeast Region of Brazil
Alessandro Wagner Coelho Ferreira‡, Ilisandra Zanandrea‡, Juliano dos Santos‡, Weslley Alexandre de Jesus Pereira‡, Miguel Sena de Oliveira§‡ Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Departamento de Biologia, Cidade Universitária, São Luís, Brazil§ Federal Rural University of Amazônia/Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Post-graduate Program in Biological Sciences – Tropical Botany, Belém, Brazil
Corresponding author: Alessandro Wagner Coelho Ferreira ( alessandrowcf@yahoo.com.br ) Academic editor: Matias Köhler © Alessandro Wagner Coelho Ferreira, Ilisandra Zanandrea, Juliano dos Santos, Weslley Alexandre de Jesus Pereira, Miguel Sena 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:
Ferreira AWC, Zanandrea I, Santos J, Pereira WAJ, Oliveira MS (2022) Expansion of the geographic distribution of a Brazilian endemic, Encyclia gonzalezii L.C. Menezes (Orchidaceae, Epidendroideae), to the Cerrado of Maranhão and the Northeast Region of Brazil. Check List 18(1): 139-145. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.1.139 |  |
Abstract
We report the first occurrence of Encyclia gonzalezii L.C. Menezes (Orchidaceae) from the state of Maranhão and the Northeast Region of Brazil. The species was collected in the Cerrado domain in Estreito, Maranhão. We present a map of the collection site, a morphological description, photographs, ecological comments, a provisional conservation assessment, and an identification key for the species of Encyclia from Maranhão.
Keywords
Cerrado, floristics, Laeliinae, new occurrence