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SUBMITTER: de Medeiros MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4225076 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Medeiros Maria Cláudia M P MC Lohmann Lúcia G LG
PhytoKeys 20141024 42
Tynanthus is a genus of lianas that is broadly distributed through the Neotropics. Two new species of Tynanthus from Brazil are here described and illustrated: Tynanthusdensiflorus, from Amazonas, and Tynanthusespiritosantensis, from Espírito Santo. Tynanthusdensiflorus is recognized by the conspicuous interpetiolar glandular fields, a feature rarely found in Tynanthus, and the dense thyrses. Tynanthusespiritosantensis, on the other hand, is recognized by the bromeliad-like prophylls of the axil ...[more]