Solanum lagoense (Solanaceae, Geminata clade), a new species from Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

By

Stehmann, João Renato
Moreira, Nayara

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

61

Pages

15-25

Subjects

assessment of extinction risk , avaliação do risco de extinção , endemism , endemismo , Eugene Warming

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.61.7258

 

Abstract

A new species of Solanum (Solanaceae) from the Geminata clade is described for the Brazilian flora. S. lagoense Stehmann is only known from Lapinha, a rocky massif located in the Lagoa Santa karst region of Minas Gerais State. The flora of this area, including Solanaceae, was studied in detail in the second half of the 19th century by the Danish botanist Eugene Warming. The species differs from other members of the Geminata clade in Brazil in its geminate leaves of different sizes, simple multicellular trichomes present on the new growth and young stems, short extra-axillary inflorescences with few (1-3) flowers, and its stellate corollas with cucullate and strongly reflexed lobes. Here we present a description, taxonomic comments and a preliminary assessment of conservation status of this critically endangered species.