Mateus César Araújo Pestana‡, Rafael Ferreira de Oliveira‡, André Vito Scatigna§, Raysa Valéria Carvalho Saraiva|, Maria Ildilene da Silva‡, Maria da Conceição de Carvalho Bastos‡, Elidio Armando Exposto Guarçoni¶Corresponding author: Mateus César Araújo Pestana ( mcapestanabotanist@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Luana Calazans © Mateus César Araújo Pestana, Rafael Ferreira de Oliveira, André Vito Scatigna, Raysa Valéria Carvalho Saraiva, Maria Ildilene da Silva, Maria da Conceição de Carvalho Bastos, Elidio Armando Exposto Guarçoni. 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:
estana MCA, Oliveira RF, Scatigna AV, Saraiva RVC, Silva MI, Bastos MCC, Guarçoni EAE (2023) Bacopa egensis (Poepp.) Pennell (Plantaginaceae): new records from Northeast Brazil and the Cerrado domain. Check List 19(2): 191-197. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.2.191 |  |
We report the first records of Bacopa egensis (Poepp.) Pennell from the Brazilian Northeast and the Cerrado domain. This species was collected in the municipality of Chapadinha, in eastern Maranhão state. Photographs, a map of occurrences in Brazil, a description, and comments on the morphology and taxonomy of B. egensis are provided, as well as an identification key to the Bacopa species of Maranhão. These new records are important due to the scarcity of collections of B. egensis from Brazil. The new data expand the longitudinal distribution of this species in the country and are an especially important contribution to the flora of Maranhão.