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Rhynchosia mineira (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae), a new and critically endangered species from Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Rhynchosia mineira is described as a new species from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The taxon is morphologically similar to R. arenicola Hassl. but differs mainly in having ovate stipules, a prostrate habit, a densely pubescent stem and ovate to rhomboid leaflets. A description, illustration, distribution map, conservation status, and key to the species of Rhynchosia in the state of Minas Gerais are provided.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge financial support from FAPESP (process 2015/13386-0; process 2017/08984-0) and CNPq (process 400567/2016-4) and thank CAPES for a PhD scholarship awarded to the first author. We are also grateful to Klei Sousa for preparing the illustration and to the curators of the herbaria visited for providing access to their collections.

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  1. Mohammad Vatanparast

    Present address: Forest, Nature, and Biomass Section, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

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  1. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências (IBB), Distrito Rubião Junior s/n, 18618-970, C.P. 510, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

    Luísa Maria de Paula Alves Bezerra, Wanderleia de Vargas, Thiago Cobra e Monteiro & Ana Paula Fortuna Perez

  2. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto Biologia, Rua Monteiro Lobato 255, Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz, Barão Geraldo, 13083-862, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Elisa Silva Cândido & Ana Paula Fortuna Perez

  3. U.S. National Herbarium (US), Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution – National Museum of Natural History, MRC 166, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20560-0166, USA

    Mohammad Vatanparast

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de Paula Alves Bezerra, L.M., de Vargas, W., Cândido, E.S. et al. Rhynchosia mineira (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae), a new and critically endangered species from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Kew Bull 74, 62 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-019-9852-z

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