Flora of Ceará, Brasil: Passifloraceae s.s

Abstract

This study presents the floristic-taxonomic treatment of Passifloraceae s.s. from the state of Ceará. Identifications were based on the analysis of collections deposited in national herbaria and photos of international herbarium collections, including types specimens, specialized bibliography and samples collected in the field. The family is represented in Ceará by 18 taxa of Passiflora, of which three are new records for the state: P. capsularis, P. kermesina and P. morifolia. Ten species were registered in Conservation Units in Ceará. The species occur in various types of vegetaion, but prefer more humid environments. Identification key, comments, images and distribution maps of the species are provided.

Flora of Ceará State, Brazil: Caryocaraceae, Hypericaceae, and Rhizophoraceae

“…Most studies related to Malpighiales undertaken in Brazil have focused on their taxonomy and/or floristic surveys of different families, especially of Euphorbiaceae (Secco et al 2012), Malpighiaceae (Almeida et al 2018), Hypericaceae (Marinho et al 2016;Martins et al 2017;Martins & Shimizu 2018), and Passifloraceae (Costa et al 2015;Costa & Melo 2016). Recent studies of Malpighiales for the Flora of the State of Ceará have focused on Erythroxylaceae (Cordeiro & Loiola 2018), Turneraceae (Rocha et al 2018), Phyllanthaceae (Lima et al 2020), Salicaceae (Nepomuceno et al 2021), and Passifloraceae (Souza et al 2021).…”