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Type: Article
Published: 2018-01-12
Page range: 28–34
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Two new species of Tarenaya (Cleomaceae) from Brazil

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Profº. Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitária, 50670-901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Caixa Postal 5065, Cidade Universitária, 58051-970, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4236, USA
Brazil South America Flora Brassicales Eudicots

Abstract

Two new endemic species of Tarenaya from Brazil are described and illustrated here. These species have been previously recognized, but their names were never validly published. They resemble each other by the armed petioles, corymbiform racemes, small flowers and sessile to subsessile mature capsules with deflexed and persistent sepals. Tarenaya curvispina is characterized by the curved stipular spines, serrulate-ciliate margins of the leaflets, and ascending fruits, while T. pernambucensis is characterized by being puberulent-glandular throughout, straight stipular spines, the margin of leaflets entire, and ciliate and deflexed fruits.