The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. This deficit creates a significant taxonomic impediment to biodiversity research and conservation planning. The taxonomic impediment and the biodiversity crisis are widely recognized, highlighting the urgent need for reliable taxonomic data. Over the past decade, numerous countries worldwide have devoted considerable effort to Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), which called for the preparation of a working list of all known plant species by 2010 and an online world Flora by 2020. Brazil is a megadiverse country, home to more of the world's known plant species than any other country. Despite that, Flora Brasiliensis, concluded in 1906, was the last comprehensive treatment of the Brazilian flora. The lack of accurate estimates of the number of species of algae, fungi, and plants occurring in Brazil contributes to the prevailing taxonomic impediment and delays progress towards the GSPC targets. Over the past 12 years, a legion of taxonomists motivated to meet Target 1 of the GSPC, worked together to gather and integrate knowledge on the algal, plant, and fungal diversity of Brazil. Overall, a team of about 980 taxonomists joined efforts in a highly collaborative project that used cybertaxonomy to prepare an updated Flora of Brazil, showing the power of scientific collaboration to reach ambitious goals. This paper presents an overview of the Brazilian Flora 2020 and provides taxonomic and spatial updates on the algae, fungi, and plants found in one of the world's most biodiverse countries. We further identify collection gaps and summarize future goals that extend beyond 2020. Our results show that Brazil is home to 46,975 native species of algae, fungi, and plants, of which 19,669 are endemic to the country. The data compiled to date suggests that the Atlantic Rainforest might be the most diverse Brazilian domain for all plant groups except gymnosperms, which are most diverse in the Amazon. However, scientific knowledge of Brazilian diversity is still unequally distributed, with the Atlantic Rainforest and the Cerrado being the most intensively sampled and studied biomes in the country. In times of “scientific reductionism”, with botanical and mycological sciences suffering pervasive depreciation in recent decades, the first online Flora of Brazil 2020 significantly enhanced the quality and quantity of taxonomic data available for algae, fungi, and plants from Brazil. This project also made all the information freely available online, providing a firm foundation for future research and for the management, conservation, and sustainable use of the Brazilian funga and flora.

ResumoLevantamentos florísticos de Asteraceae na Cadeia do Espinhaço têm confirmado uma significante riqueza de espécies e de endemismos dessa família para as vegetações campestres. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo realizar um inventário florístico de Asteraceae no município de Mucugê, Bahia, oferecendo subsídios para o reconhecimento da família na região. As coletas têm sido realizadas na região há pelo menos uma década e meia cobrindo grande parte da área do Município. Foram estudados também os materiais provenientes dos herbários ALCB, CEPEC, HRB, HUEFS, MBM, NYBG, RB, SP, SPF e UB. A família Asteraceae está representada em Mucugê por 18 tribos, 78 gêneros e 167 espécies. As tribos com maior número de espécies são Eupatorieae (49 spp.), Vernonieae (46 spp.), Astereae (18 spp.) e Heliantheae (11 spp.). Dos gêneros registrados, cinco são monoespecíficos (Pseudostifftia, Platypodanthera, Bahianthus, Conocliniopsis e Prolobus) e cinco são endêmicos da Bahia (Pseudostifftia, Stylotrichium, Lasiolaena e Semiria). Dentre os gêneros com maior riqueza, destacam-se Baccharis (17 spp.), Lychnophora (11 spp.), Mikania (10 spp.), Lepidaploa e Lessingianthus (7 spp.) cada. São apresentadas chaves de identificação para as tribos, gêneros e espécies, comentários taxonômicos e distribuição geográfica para cada táxon, além de ilustrações e fotos. Palavras-chave: Cadeia do Espinhaço, campo rupestre, florística, endemismo. AbstractFloristic surveys of the Asteraceae in the Espinhaço Range have showed a significant species richness and endemisms in this family for the grassland vegetation. Thus, this study aims to survey the floristic inventory of the Asteraceae in the municipality of Mucugê, Bahia, providing subsidies for an updated taxonomic recognition of the family in the region. Field collections have been conducted for at least a decade and a half covering much of the area. We also analyzed the material from the herbaria ALCB, CEPEC, HRB, HUEFS, MBM, NYBG, RB, SP, SPF and UB. Asteraceae is represented in Mucugê by 18 tribes, 78 genera and 167 species. The tribes with the greatest number of species are Eupatorieae (49 spp.), Vernonieae (46 spp.), Astereae (18 spp.) and Heliantheae (11 spp.). Five of the genera are monospecific (Pseudostifftia, Platypodanthera, Bahianthus, Conocliniopsis e Prolobus) and five are endemic to Bahia (Pseudostifftia, Stylotrichium, Lasiolaena and Semiria). The genera with highest number of species are Baccharis (17 spp.), Lychnophora (11 spp.), Mikania (10 spp.), Lepidaploa and Lessingianthus (7 spp.) each. Identification keys to the tribes, genera and species, followed by taxonomic comments and geographic distribution for each taxon, and illustrations and images are presented.

Resumo Dentre os gêneros de Asteraceae destaca-se Mikania que compreende ca. 450 espécies de distribuição principalmente neotropical. Mikania é considerado monofilético e pode ser facilmente reconhecido pelos capítulos com quatro flores e quatro brácteas involucrais subentendidos por uma bráctea subinvolucral. Este estudo objetivou realizar o levantamento florístico do gênero Mikania no Ceará, nordeste do Brasil. Foram analisadas amostras dos herbários ALCB, EAC, HCDAL, HUEFS, HVASF, IPA, K, P, NY e R, consultadas bibliografias especializadas e imagens disponíveis nas bases SpeciesLink, JSTOR e Herbário Virtual Reflora, além de coletas obtidas atraves de expedições a campo. Para o Ceará foram listadas oito espécies de Mikania, das quais três são novos registros. Mikania biformis é também nova ocorrência para a Região Nordeste. Mikania elliptica e M. ternata foram coletadas em ambientes de mata úmida; a primeira possuía registros apenas para a Bahia e Minas Gerais, em áreas de Caatinga e Cerrado, e a segunda, para a Bahia e regiões Sudeste e Sul do Brasil nos domínios do Cerrado e Mata Atlântica. As demais espécies (M. congesta, M. cordifolia, M. micrantha, M. psilostachya e M. vitifolia) são amplamente distribuídas no Brasil.

The Neotropical genus Stevia comprises c. 230 species and can be easily recognised by its heads with five phyllaries and five florets. During a floristic survey of Eupatorieae in the Planalto de Diamantina, in the Cadeia do Espinhaço, Minas Gerais, Brazil, a new species of Stevia was collected in "cerrado" and "campo rupestre" vegetation. S. grazielae differs from the other 32 Brazilian species by its characteristic opposite and alternate linear and flat to conduplicate leaves, heads in a lax panicle, with divaricate secondary branching, and 5 cypselas with isomorphic pappus, 7 -9 awns and 1 -3 scales, or cypselas with heteromorphic pappus, 7 -10 awns and 1 -3 scales in 3 -4 adelphocarps, and 9 -11 awns and 0 scales in 1 -2 idiocarps. S. grazielae is described, illustrated, and the conservation status is assessed.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diversity of herbaceous plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi following the cultivation of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L., cv. BRS 321) irrigated with produced water. The sunflower plants were irrigated during three successive cycles with different types of water: produced water obtained through simple filtration (PWSF), and secondly, produced water treated by reverse osmosis (PWRO), and the control with groundwater from the aquifer Açu (WCA). In June 2014, five months after the final harvest, the treatments were evaluated in terms of the diversity of successor plants and their roots colonized by arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM); and samples of soil, in which the following were measured: the spore abundance of AM fungi, the levels of glomalin in easily extracted glomalin and total glomalin. Of a total of eighteen species of herbaceous plants which were identified in the experimental field, Dactyloctenium aegyptium was related with the use of PWSF, Panicum sp. and Diodella apiculata with the use of PWRO, and Trianthema portulacastrum and Eragrostis tenella with the control WCA. The diversity of AM fungi was affected by irrigation with PWSF, in which two species of Acaulospora, one species of Gigaspora and species of Paraglomus were absent, compared to the treatment with PWRO. Acaulospora sp.1 was related with the WCA control as an indicator species. The use of produced water which had undergone reverse osmosis had a shortterm effect on the content of glomalin which is easily extractable from the soil but did not change the mycorrhization rates of plants. These results enable us to infer that irrigation with produced water leads to a reduction in the diversity of herbaceous plants and of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the soil, confirming the importance of monitoring agro-systems irrigated with residual water.

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Lychnophora osanyiniana is a new species from “campos rupestres”, a Brazilian savanna ecosystem constantly threatened by agriculture and mining, despite it having a high number of plant species, particularly endemic and microendemic species. The new species was collected from Sítio Serra da Rita, Serra dos Alves, municipality of Itabira, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The species is recognized by its glomerulate capitulescence with subinvolucral bracts surrounding sessile heads, giving the appearance of a single head. Another distinct character, although it is not exclusive, is an uniseriate pappus, shared by just three species, Lychnophora grisea, L. haplopappa and L. uniflora, of which only L. haplopappa has similar habit, becoming the closest species.

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