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Four new species of Trembleya (Melastomataceae: Microlicieae) from Serra do Cabral, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Nine species of the Brazilian endemic genus, Trembleya, were collected during a floristic survey of the tribe Microlicieae on Serra do Cabral, an isolated mountain range in north-central Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Four of these are newly described and illustrated here: Trembleya inversa, T. purpurascens, T. rubra, and T. serrulata, represent new taxa for the genus. These new species appear to be endemic to Serra do Cabral where they occur in campo rupestre and cerrado vegetation. Serra do Cabral has the distinction of harboring more species of Trembleya than any other mountain range in Brazil.

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Nove espécies do gênero brasileiro Trembleya foram coletadas durante um levantamento florístico da tribo Microlicieae na Serra do Cabral, uma cadeia isolada de montanhas no centro-norte do estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Quatro delas, que representam novos táxons para o gênero, são aqui descritas e ilustradas pela primeira vez: Trembleya inversa, T. purpurascens, T. rubra, e T. serrulata. Estas novas espécies parecem ser endêmicas da Serra do Cabral onde ocorrem no campo rupestre e cerrado. A Serra do Cabral distingue-se por abrigar mais espécies de Trembleya do que qualquer outra cadeia de montanhas no Brasil.

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Acknowledgments

We thank CAPES (Centro de Aperfeiçoamento do Ensino Superior) for a scholarship granted to Fidanza (FAEPEX/UNICAMP and PROAP/UNICAMP) to support field work, CNPq (Conselho Nacional do Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) for grant support to Martins, and the M. Stanley Rundel Charitable Trust (U.S.A.) for supporting field work by Almeda and Martins in southeastern Brazil. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments, Samira Rolim for preparing all the line drawings, and Rachel Diaz-Bastin and Charlotte Pfeiffer for technical assistance. We are also grateful to the following curators for making the herbarium material under their care readily accessible: Gert Hatschbach (MBM) and José R. Pirani (SPF).

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  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, P. O. Box 6109, 13083-970, Brazil

    Karina Fidanza

  2. Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, P. O. Box 6109, 13083-970, Brazil

    Angela Borges Martins

  3. Department of Botany, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, 94118, USA

    Frank Almeda

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Fidanza, K., Martins, A.B. & Almeda, F. Four new species of Trembleya (Melastomataceae: Microlicieae) from Serra do Cabral, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Brittonia 65, 280–291 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-012-9281-x

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