Solanum medusae (Solanaceae), a new wolf-fruit from Brazil, and a key to the extra-Amazonian Brazilian Androceras/Crinitum Clade species

By

Gouvêa, Yuri
Stehmann, João Renato
Knapp, Sandra

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

118

Pages

15-32

Subjects

Brasil , Brazil , Cerrado , chave de identificação , espécie nova , identification key , lobeira , new species , prickly Solanum , Solanaceae , Solanum aculeado , wolf-fruit

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.118.31598

 

Abstract

Solanummedusaesp. nov. is described from the Cerrado biome in the Serra da Canastra region, southwestern Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The new species is morphologically similar to the common S.lycocarpum A.St.-Hil. (known as lobeira or wolf-fruit), but differs from it in habit and pubescence characters. We here describe this new taxon and discuss its morphology, some aspects of its ecology, affinities and distribution. Full specimen citations are provided, as well as illustrations, distribution map and a preliminary conservation assessment of the species. A key to all of the known extra-Amazonian Brazilian species of the Androceras/Crinitum clade is also provided to aid in their identification.