Landrum campomanesia
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A NEW SPECIES OF CAMPoMANESIA (MYRTACEAE) FROM BAHIA, BRAZIL, BASED ON SPECIMENS COLLECTED BY J.S. BLANCHET OVER 150 YEARS AGOLeslie R. Landrum
School of Life Sciences Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona 85287-4501, U.S.A. les.landrum@asu.edu
Marla Ibrahim U. de Oliveira
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana Av. Transnordestina, s/n, Novo Horizonte, 44036-900 Feira de Santana, Bahia, BRAZIL marlauehbe@yahoo.com.br abstract A new species of Campomanesia Ruiz et Pav., collected by Blanchet in Bahia, Brazil, is here recognized. A description, discussion, images of collections and a key comparing Campomanesia blanchetiana Landrum & Ibrahim with two similar species, C. eugenioides (Cambess.) Legrand and C. espiritosantensis Landrum, are provided.
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Uma nova espécie de Campomanesia Ruiz et Pav., coletada por Blanchet no estado da Bahia, Nordeste do Brasil, é reconhecida neste trabalho. São apresentadas descrição, discussão, fotografias e uma chave de identificação para comparar Campomanesia blanchetiana Landrum & Ibrahim com duas espécies semelhantes, C. eugenioides (Cambess.) Legrand e C. espiritosantensis Landrum. k ey words: Taxonomy, Moricand, Nazaré das Farinhas, old herbarium specimens
Jacques Samuel Blanchet, Swiss ambassador in Bahia, Brazil, from 1828 to 1856 and an early plant collector in that country (Staflue & Cowan 1976), has provided numerous type specimens, as can be deduced by searching the epithets containing “blanchet” in the International Plant Name Index (http://www.ipni.org/ ipni/ plantnamesearchpage.do). Some genera are named in his honor, for instance Blanchetia DC. (Asteraceae) (Stafleu & Cowan 1976). Most of these taxa were recognized as new in the 19th Century, but some are still being discovered based on Blanchet collections. For example, Landrum and Funch (2008) recently described Psidium bahianum with a Blanchet collection cited as a