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Two new species of Erythroxylum sect. Rhabdophyllum (Erythroxylaceae) from north-eastern Brazil

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Erythroxylum longisetulosum I. Loiola & M. F. Sales and E. timothei I. Loiola & M. F. Sales (sect. Rhabdophyllum) from north-eastern Brazil are described and illustrated, and their taxonomic and ecological relationships are discussed.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the curators of the herbaria at F, K, MG, NY and SPF for the loans of herbarium material (including type collections and donations of cibachromes) which were essential to this work, as well as Frank Silva (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco) for the illustrations, Dr William R. Anderson (MICH) for his critical comments and improvement of the manuscript and Katherine Challis (K) for checking the Latin diagnoses.

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  1. CB/Departamento de Botânica, Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, Lagoa Nova, CEP 59072-970, Natal, RN, Brazil

    Maria Iracema Bezerra Loiola

  2. Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Av. Dom Manoel de Medeiros s/n, Dois Irmãos, CEP 52171-030, Recife, PE, Brazil

    Margareth Ferreira de Sales

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Correspondence to Maria Iracema Bezerra Loiola.

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Loiola, M.I.B., Ferreira de Sales, M. Two new species of Erythroxylum sect. Rhabdophyllum (Erythroxylaceae) from north-eastern Brazil. Kew Bull 63, 655–659 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-008-9077-z

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