A New Species of Posoqueria (Rubiaceae) from Bahia, Brazil

Abstract

Posoqueria bahiensis from southern Bahia, Brazil, is described as a new species. It dif¬ fers most notably from all the other species of the genus in being totally glabrous except at the corolla fauce and anthers and in the densely multiflowered inflorescence with ea. 40 flowers.

Rubiacearum Americanarum Magna Hama Pars XXVII: Six New Species and a New Taxonomic View ofPosoqueria

“…However, in these species the filaments are generally straight in bud and generally equal in length (Taylor & Cortés-Ballén, 1999: fig. 1; Macias & Kinoshita, 2003: fig. 1), and in contrast to the species with an asymmetric androecium, their anthers are partially included in the corolla tube or just barely fully exserted from it (i.e., with the base of the anther positioned less than 1 mm above the top of the corolla tube).…”