Justicieae (Acanthaceae) do Semiárido do Estado da Bahia, Brasil

Abstract

-(Justicieae (Acanthaceae) of the Semiarid of Bahia State, Brazil). The inventory and taxonomic study of the tribe Justicieae (Acanthaceae) of Bahia State's Semiarid region are presented. For the execution of this inventory, collections of Bahia herbaria and major herbaria of the Southeast and South of Brazil, and random collections (georeferenced) were conducted covering 25 municipalities of the Semiarid region of the Bahia State. Twenty-seven species and ten genera were recognized, namely: Justicia L. (17 species), Harpochilus Nees (2)

Private environmental consultancy reveals five genera and ten species of angiosperms new to Rio Grande do Norte state, northeastern Brazil

“…Occurs in the Caatinga and Cerrado domains, mainly in grasslands on rocky soils or reddish sandstone outcrops (Côrtes and Rapini 2013). In Rio Grande do Norte, H. neesianus was collected in shrubby-tree Caatinga, growing in rocky soils.…”

<strong><em>Justicia cordifolia</em>, a new combination in Brazilian Acanthaceae </strong>

“…There is a great lack of systematic studies for this genus in Brazil, limited to the studies done by Ezcurra (2002), who reviewed the genus for southern South America, and by Côrtes & Rapini (2013), who treated the tribe Justicieae for part of the Northeastern region of Brazil. Wasshausen & Smith (1969) recognized 18 species of Justicia, including cultivated and some synonymized species for Santa Catarina State in a volume of "Flora Ilustrada Catarinense".…”

Acanthaceae em Colorado do Oeste, Rondônia, Brasil

“…Ainda, boa parte dos gêneros referidos por Nees (1847) foram sinonimizados. Trabalhos taxonômicos para espécies brasileiras de Acanthaceae são escassos, compreendendo poucos estudos de floras locais, com destaque para a Flora de Santa Catarina (Wasshausen & Smith 1969), Flora da Serra do Cipó (Kameyama 1995), Flora da Reserva Florestal Mata do Paraíso (Braz et al 2002), Flora de Grão Mogol (Kameyama 2003), Flora da Reserva Ducke (Kameyama 2006) e Justicieae do semiárido da Bahia (Côrtes & Rapini 2013). No Brasil, a família possui o maior número de espécies na Mata Atlântica e nas formações Florestas Mesófilas das regiões Sudeste e Centro-Oeste, ocorrendo em diversos tipos de formações vegetais (Kameyama 2006).…”