With the aim of recognizing and identifying both fertile and sterile specimens of Cryptocarya from Brazil, we analyzed the leaf venation pattern of 14 taxa, 6 of them being described and illustrated for the first time. A dichotomous identification key was built from a matrix of 12 leaf venation characters and 30 character states, which distinguishes among taxa.
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30 June 2021
Leaf Venation of Brazilian Species of Cryptocarya R. Br. (Lauraceae)
Pedro Luís Rodrigues de Moraes,
Carlos Alberto Moysés Neto
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Harvard Papers in Botany
Vol. 26 • No. 1
June 2021
Vol. 26 • No. 1
June 2021
Laurales
leaf venation
morphology
Neotropics
taxonomy