A new species of Dalechampia from southeastern Brazil, belonging to Dalechampia sect. Dioscoreifoliae, is described and illustrated here. Dalechampia margarethiae is a twining vine occurring exclusively in Espírito Santo state. Its pseudanthia are similar to those of D. peckoltiana and D. pentaphylla, but D. margarethiae differs in a set of important characters, including having cylindrical, down-curved style tips, staminate flowers at anthesis having unreflexed sepals with stamens born on unelongated columns, whitish floral resin, and simple, entire, cordate leaves.
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14 November 2019
Dalechampia margarethiae (Euphorbiaceae), a New Species from Southeastern Brazil
Rafaela Alves Pereira-Silva,
Sarah Maria Athiê-Souza,
André Laurênio de Melo,
W. Scott Armbruster
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Systematic Botany
Vol. 44 • No. 4
August 2019
Vol. 44 • No. 4
August 2019
Acalyphoideae
Dioscoreifoliae
Espírito Santo
taxonomy