<p><strong><em>Syagrus amicorum</em></strong><strong>, a new Arecaceae from Bahia, Brazil</strong></p>

Abstract

Syagrus amicorum, a new Arecaceae species is described and illustrated. This species occurs in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Data on habitat, ecology, etymology, geographical distribution, morphological affinity and status of conservation according to the IUCN criteria are provided.

A New Rupicolous Palm From the Campos Rupestres, Minas Gerais, Brazil

“…The present study is based on field observations and collections in the Serra do Cabral State Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and herbarium material from MCMG, SPF and UPCB (herbarium codes follow Thiers et al, continuously updated). In the literature review, all available publications on the taxonomy of the genus were considered (Glassman, 1965(Glassman, , 1967(Glassman, , 1968a(Glassman, , 1968b(Glassman, , 1987Henderson et al, 1995;Marcato & Pirani, 2001;Noblick, 2004aNoblick, , 2004bNoblick, , 2004cMarcato & Pirani, 2006;Dransfield et al, 2008;Meerow et al, 2009;Noblick, 2009Noblick, , 2010Noblick & Lorenzi, 2010a, 2010bNoblick, 2012;Martel et al, 2013;Noblick, 2013a;Soares et al, 2013;Noblick, 2014;Noblick et al, 2014;Noblick, 2017a;Silva-Cardoso et al, 2017;Noblick, 2018Noblick, , 2019Soares & Guimarães, 2019;Firmo et al, 2021;Soares, 2022;Sant'Anna-Santos et al, 2023a, 2023b. The circumscription adopted here for Syagrus is based on Noblick (2017a), and the terminology adopted for the morphological and anatomical descriptions follows Dransfield et al (2008) and Noblick (2017aNoblick ( , 2017b.…”

“…The monophyletic genus Syagrus comprises 70 species, mostly native to Brazil, with 33 being acaulescent (lacking a visible stem or short-stemmed) species (Dransfield et al, 2008;Meerow et al, 2009;Noblick et al, 2014;Noblick & Meerow, 2015;Noblick, 2017aNoblick, , 2018Soares & Guimarães, 2019;Firmo et al, 2021;Soares, 2022;Sant'Anna-Santos et al, 2023a, 2023b. More than half of the acaulescent Syagrus species bear similar unbranched inflorescences, flowers and fruits (Dransfield et al, 2008;Noblick, 2013bNoblick, , 2017a.…”