A NEW PURPLEHEART (PELTOGYNE, CAESALPINIACEAE) FROM SOUTH BAHIAN ATLANTIC FOREST (BRAZIL)

Authors
BARNEBY RC
Citation
Rc. Barneby, A NEW PURPLEHEART (PELTOGYNE, CAESALPINIACEAE) FROM SOUTH BAHIAN ATLANTIC FOREST (BRAZIL), Brittonia, 46(4), 1994, pp. 270-272
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
Brittonia → ACNP
ISSN journal
0007196X
Volume
46
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
270 - 272
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-196X(1994)46:4<270:ANP(CF>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Peltogyne chrysopis, an emergent tree of Bahian Atlantic Forest notabl e for subsessile, globose flowers with rudimentary solid hypanthium, d ensely white-velutinous sepals and ovary, and planocompressed, ellipti c-suborbicular fruits narrowly winged along the short seminiferous sut ure, is described and figured. A key to species of Peltogyne known fro m the state of Bahia is provided.