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While studying specimens of Garcinia gardneriana from the Brazilian Amazon we detected problems in reconciling the morphology of these collections to that of the type-collection (with the basionym of Rheedia gardneriana) and similar specimens from other regions of Brazil. An investigation led us to the conclusion that the Amazonian collections represent a new species, described herein as Garcinia apostoloi. We present a taxonomic treatment comprising a morphological description, a distributional map in southern Amazonia, a description of the habitat, a preliminary conservation assessment, and other taxonomic comments.
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We thank the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas (FAPEAM) for the master’s scholarship awarded to TMM and the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA/PPGBOT) for the infrastructure provided. Our thanks also goes to the Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro (RB, Rio de Janeiro) for the loans of the specimens. We are also grateful to Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP) for the call “Modernização do Acervo do Herbário do INPA e suas capacidades para Estudos de Taxonomia” (No. 31.18.0117.00), and to the research group “Taxonomia da Flora Amazônica” for the support and access to the Plant Taxonomy Laboratory – INPA. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their invaluable contributions.
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de Medeiros Mouzinho, T., Cabral, F.N., de Lourdes Soares, M. et al. Garcinia apostoloi: a new species of Clusiaceae from the Brazilian Amazon forest. Brittonia 75, 62–68 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-023-09739-x
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