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Issue: Vol. 255 No. 3: 11 April 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-11
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.255.3.6
Page range: 249–258
Abstract views: 17
PDF downloaded: 1

Four new species of the fern genus Goniopteris C. Presl (Thelypteridaceae) from Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Caixa Postal 486, 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Caixa Postal 486, 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Caixa Postal 486, 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Caixa Postal 486, 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Ferns Goniopteris Brazil Atlantic Forest Pteridophytes

Abstract

Four new species of Goniopteris from Brazil are described and illustrated: Goniopteris smithii and G. windischii are narrowly endemic to southern Bahia, G. seidleri is restricted to the mountains of Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro states, and G. subdimorpha is endemic to semideciduous forests of Minas Gerais state.