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Type: Article
Published: 2016-09-23
Page range: 77–84
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Taxonomic Revision of Coleostachys (Malpighiaceae)

Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Avenida Transnordestina s/n, Novo Horizonte, CEP 44036-900, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil.
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Campus de Pesquisa, Coordenação de Botânica, Programa de Capacitação Institucional, Av. Perimetral, Terra Firme, CEP 66077-830, Belém, Pará, Brazil
Amazon Rainforest Byrsonimoids Malpighiales Neotropical flora Taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Coleostachys is a monospecific genus of Neotropical Malpighiaceae, known in the literature from only two collections. After a thorough analysis of Brazilian and International herbaria, we present a taxonomic revision of Coleostachys. This work includes a complete morphological description of the genus and its single species, C. genipifolia, along with line drawings and photograph plates, a distribution map, and comments on taxonomy, ecology and conservation of this obscure Amazonian genus.