Este trabajo se centra en las recientes decisiones tomadas por el Ministerio de Agricultura del Perú sobre la recolección, propagación y siembra de especies de quina. Señalamos las deficiencias de estas decisiones a la luz de los avances en el conocimiento de la taxonomía y sistemática de Cinchona. Destacamos el papel de la ciencia analizando e informando sobre las decisiones en el uso sostenible de los recursos naturales.
Bauhinia includes about 150 species distributed across the tropics. Most Neotropical species belong to Bauhinia ser. Cansenia that includes unarmed trees and shrubs, mostly from areas under seasonally dry climate. A new species of this series is described here from the northeastern Brazilian states of Bahia and Sergipe. Bauhinia corifolia occurs in open vegetation on sandy soils of Restinga vegetation at the Atlantic coastal forests. It is morphologically similar to B. acuruana by sharing the entire and ovate leaflet with a retuse to emarginate apex and a cordate base, but differing by its tall shrub to treelet habit, larger leaves with a glabrous and glossy upper surface, shorter bracts, and longer flowers. We provide description, illustration and distribution map for the new species.
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