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Type: Article
Published: 2014-09-26
Page range: 54–58
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The Second Known Species of the Recently Described Genus Keraunea (Convolvulaceae)

Instituto de Biociências, UNESP-Universidade Estadual Paulista, campus Rio Claro, Departamento de Botânica, Av. 24A 1515, C.P. 199, 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil.
Keraunea candida Convolvulaceae Brazil Atlantic Rain Forest taxonomy

Abstract

This paper describes Keraunea  capixaba, the second known species of Keraunea (Convolvulaceae), native to the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest. It is easily distinguished from the only other known species of the genus by its almost complete hairlessness, bigger calyx and corolla lobes, longer corolla tube, and inflorescence type.