<p><strong><em>Lantana</em></strong><strong> <em>caudata </em>(Verbenaceae), a new species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest</strong></p>

Abstract

Lantana caudata, a new species of Verbenaceae, endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest is described and illustrated. It is a tall shrub, characterized by the presence of pedicellate glandular trichomes on all parts of the plant; branches conspicuously prickly; lanceolate to elliptical leaves, with obtuse to cuneate base and caudate apex; peduncle long; and yellow, red or orange corolla. This species occurs in the transition between dense rainforest and inselbergs in Espírito Santo and between the same type of forest and campos de altitude in Minas Gerais. We discuss the diagnostic characters, morphological affinities and conservation status, and present a distribution map and illustration.

An update of the Verbenaceae genera and species numbers

“…Despite the publication of many new species since 2004 (e.g. Thulin 2005; O' Leary et al 2009;Salimena 2010;Silva et al 2017;O'Leary & Frost 2018;Cardoso et al 2019aCardoso et al , 2019bCardoso et al , 2019cCardoso et al , 2019dCardoso et al , 2019e, 2019f, 2019g, 2020Harley et al 2019;Moroni et al 2019;Thode & Bordignon 2019), this estimate of the number of species is a reduction of approximately onethird from that of Atkins (2004), which continues to be used to represent the diversity in Verbenaceae due to the lack of an updated estimate for the species number in this family. Since the publication of Marx et al (2010), five genera were placed in synonymy, while two others were described (see above and table 1).…”

Phylogeny of Lantana, Lippia, and related genera (Lantaneae: Verbenaceae)

“…Numerous regional studies, such as Lantana in Brazil (Silva, 1999), Paraguay (Rotman, 2009), and Argentina (Rotman, 2012), Lantana sect. Lantana in the Greater Antilles (Mendes Santos, 2002), Lippia in Argentina (Múlgura, 2014), and works describing new taxa or new distributional ranges (e.g., Silva, 2001;Salimena, 2002bSalimena, , 2010Silva et al, 2017;Cardoso and Salimena, 2019;Cardoso et al, 2019aCardoso et al, , 2019bCardoso et al, , 2019cCardoso et al, , 2020 have added to the nomenclatural and taxonomic complexity of the clade.…”

Lippia (Verbenaceae) do Brasil: atualização taxonômica, biogeografia e conservação

“…(Múlgura 2000;Salimena & Múlgura 2015a;Schaefer 2018;Cardoso et al 2019b, c;Cardoso et al 2020b, c, d Deste modo, qualquer menção a Campos Gerais (lato sensu) se refere ao tipo de vegetação pertencente ao cerrado (lato sensu). (Valério et al 2021), novas espécies e variedade 2019c;2020a;2020b;2020c, Cardoso et al 2021b, proposta de rejeição do nome Lippia riedeliana Schauer (Cardoso et al 2020e) e foi descartada a ocorrência de Lippia hassleriana Chodat para o Brasil, uma espécie endêmica do Paraguai (Chocarro & De Egea 2018).…”

“…100 species native to tropical and subtropical America, Africa, Asia, some also introduced in Europe and Oceania. The most species-rich countries for the genus are Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil (Mendez-Santos & Ramos-Rodriguez 1993, Rotman 2009, Anton & Zuloaga 2012, Jørgensen et al 2014, BFG 2018, Cardoso et al 2019c). Lippia, on the other hand, has about 120-150 species distributed over the Americas and Africa, with most of its richness concentrated in Brazil , BFG 2018, Cardoso et al 2019a, b, Cardoso et al 2020.…”