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Issue: Vol. 222 No. 2: 14 August 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-08-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.222.2.11
Page range: 162–164
Abstract views: 20
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A new combination and new synonym in the Neotropical Heliotropiaceae

Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Centro de Ciências de Biológicas e da Saúde, Departamento de Biologia, Av. das Baraúnas, 351 – Bairro Universitário, 58429-500, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil
Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid-CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Plaza de Murillo, 2 – 28014, Madrid, Spain
Heliotropiaceae nomenclature Boraginaceae sensu lato Eudicots

Abstract

A new combination in Euploca and a new synonym in Tournefortia (Heliotropiaceae) from the Neotropics are proposed here. Heliotropium purdiei is combined under the genus Euploca and Tournefortia spicata is proposed as a synonym of T. romeroi.