Revisiting Paepalanthus subsect. Polycladus (Eriocaulaceae) re-circumscription, nomenclatural notes and description of a noteworthy new species

• Published in: Folia geobotanica Vol. 54; no. 3/4; pp. 307 - 318
• Main Authors: Trovó, Marcelo, Echternacht, Livia, Sano, Paulo Takeo, da Costa, Fabiane Nepomuceno
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Science + Business Media 01.12.2019; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biomedical and Life Sciences; Habitat preferences; Identification keys; lectotypes; Life Sciences; New species; Paepalanthus; Plant Ecology; Plant Sciences; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; taxonomic keys; Taxonomy; Systematics; Paepalanthoideae; Cerrado; Poales; Taxonomy; Nomenclature

Paepalanthus subsect. Polycladus was proposed based on a few and incomplete specimens of P. polygonus. In this manuscript we re-circumscribe the group, include the remarkable new species Paepalanthus lychnophorellus and exclude P. graomogolensis, providing also a complete description of Paepalanthus...