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Tetrataenium paikadae (Apiaceae), a new species from the Western Ghats, India

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
A new species, Tetrataenium paikadae C.Rekha, Manudev & Prasanth (Apiaceae), is described from the State of Kerala, India. The new species is characterised by its hirsute to hispid stems, broadly ovate or rounded leaflets, long petioles with hirsute leaf sheaths, tomentose rays, symmetric flowers, ovate‐lanceolate involucel bracteoles, and mericarp ...
Rekha Chappan, Prasanth Malammal Kanhirampadam, Aswindas Thekke Parakkal, Manudev Kambiyelummal Madhavan   +3 more
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Catalog of type specimens of recent mammals in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP) [PDF]

Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
The Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP) houses one of Latin America’s largest, most complete, and representative collections of Neotropical mammals.
Rafaela Lumi Vendramel, Fábio Oliveira do Nascimento, Guilherme Siniciato Terra Garbino, Juliana Gualda-Barros, Luís Fábio Silveira, Joyce Rodrigues do Prado, José Eduardo Serrano Serrano-Villavicencio   +6 more
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Clarifying nomenclatural uncertainties in Jupunba (Caesalpinioideae, Leguminosae)

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Molecular phylogenetic studies have prompted substantial revisions in the systematics of the former genus Abarema, resulting in the reinstatement of the genera Punjuba and Jupunba, and a re‐circumscription of Abarema. Despite these advances, some taxa still require nomenclatural adjustments to reflect monophyletic lineages.
Ethiéne Guerra, Marcos Vinicius Batista Soares, Marli Pires Morim, João Ricardo Vieira Iganci   +3 more
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Reinstatement and generic reassignment of Phyllanthus asteranthos Croizat (Phyllanthaceae) based on living plant observations and specimen analysis

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Phyllanthus asteranthos Croizat has been treated as a synonym of P. pulcher Wall. ex Müll. Arg. (syn. Nymphanthus glaucescens (Miq.) R.W.Bouman) since 1987. Through detailed morphological observations of living plants and critical examinations of type materials and additional specimens, this study revealed that the two taxa are morphologically very ...
Feng Yang, Li‐Ju Jiang, Huan‐Chong Wang   +2 more
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Rediscovery of Passiflora clypeophylla (subgenus Decaloba): a highly threatened and narrow endemic species found within a karstic canyon in Guatemala

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Passiflora clypeophylla, an endemic species to the Guatemalan karstic forests last seen in 1889 and deemed extinct, was rediscovered in the Department of Alta Verapaz, east of Cobán. The species was known only from a single specimen hailed from the type locality, Rubel Cruz, where it has been found again. An additional location has been identified in a
J.R. Kuethe, Dennis I. Medina, Saban Sequen, Maura L. Quezada   +3 more
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Molecular phylogenetic and morphological analyses revealed a new species, Leucocoprinus roseus (Agaricaceae, Basidiomycota), from Punjab, Pakistan

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
In this article, we describe a new fungal species, Leucocoprinus roseus, collected in Canal View Park, District Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab, Pakistan. The species is proposed as new based on detailed morphological observations and molecular phylogenetic analysis using nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (nrITS) sequences.
Wajahat Akram, Malka Saba, Muhammad Asif, Ayesha Nawaz, Fahim Ullah, Warda Samen, Fazli Maula, Mohsin Ullah   +7 more
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Sedum zhenghaianum (Crassulaceae), a new species from Zhejiang and Jiangxi, East China

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
In this paper, Sedum zhenghaianum sp. nov. is described as a new species based on morphological and molecular analyses, and its taxonomic relationships are discussed. Morphological analysis indicates that S. zhenghaianum should be classified in the genus Sedum sect. Sedum and is distinct from the related species S. tosaense in morphology, e.g.
Shi‐Qi She, Shi‐Guo Huang, Yang Zhang, Shen‐Hao Yao, Zong‐Wei Zhu, Xin Zhou, Yue‐Liang Xu   +6 more
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Breynia phuongiana (Phyllanthaceae), a new species from the Central Highlands of Vietnam

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
A new species, Breynia phuongiana (Phyllanthaceae subgen. Sauropus), is described and illustrated from the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It is morphologically similar to B. beillei, B. bonii, and B. thorelii, but differs in having oblong‐elliptic leaves, sepals marked with reddish striations, an androphore exceeding 1 mm in length, and distinctly ...
Van Canh Nguyen, Thi Thuy Nhan Tran, Ba Vuong Truong, Leonid V. Averyanov, Thi Hoa Nguyen, Thanh Nha Phan‐Thi, Nguyen‐Khanh‐Trinh Tram   +6 more
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Parakaempferia alba sp. nov. (Zingiberaceae), a new species from Arunachal Pradesh, India

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Parakaempferia alba, a new species of Zingiberaceae from East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, India is herein described. A detailed taxonomic description, diagnosis, color photoplate, distribution map, notes on habitat and ecology, conservation status, and a table of comparisons with the closely related species Parakaempferai synantha Rao & Verma ...
Tatum Mibang, Bipankar Hajong, Devpratim Koch, Pankaj Bharali   +3 more
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A checklist of scorpions (Arachnida) in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History (Sofia)

Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 2015
The scorpions deposited in the collection of NMNH (Sofia) are identified and revised. The collection contains 61 species of 34 genera and ten families (Bothriuridae, Buthidae, Chaerilidae, Diplocentridae, Euscorpiidae, Liochelidae, Iuridae ...
František Kovařik, Petar Beron
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