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<mods:titleid="99805DC2956E6D3C526CD115FB91E37E">A new species of Zanthoxylum (Rutaceae) with a key to the species from Northeastern Brazil</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="27BCDB21DC03976F7CC4D163C25F8A7B">Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto. Avenida dos Bandeirantes 3900, CEP 14051 - 901, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.</mods:affiliation>
<mods:namePartid="3CD7347D8FF67980276420442DC732D1">Pirani, José Rubens</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="EF553C7C10D28BC5BD5173977859226F">Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, 321, CEP 05508 - 900, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.</mods:affiliation>
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(from the Caribbean islands to northern South America) the unifoliolate leaves, but is immediately distinguished mainly by its female flowers with gynocieum of four carpels united by a discoid stigma (versus female flowers with only three carpels united in a capitate, slightly lobed stigma in
wide, elliptic to obovate, apex acuminate, acute or rounded, sometimes emarginated, margin entire, base acute to obtuse; venation brochidodromous, midvein prominent on the abaxial surface, impressed to slightly prominent on the adaxial surface; secondary veins 7–13 pairs, prominent on the abaxial surface, impressed on the adaxial surface, uniformly diverging from midvein at angles of 52°–63°, intersecondary veins present, running in a larger angle than to major secondaries; petiole
long, with 3–4 conical styles; ovary globose at base with a small locule containing 2–3 abortive, pendulous ovules; disc annular surrounding the base of the pistillodium. Pistillate flowers
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. A. Thorns on trunk; B. Vegetation in Serra das Cajazeiras Carmópolis (Sergipe, Brazil), one of the places the new species was collected. C and D. Branches with pistillate inflorescences.
<emphasisid="B927E97BBA37D846FF14F8BCFDD4D44B"bold="true"box="[189,588,1844,1869]"pageId="3"pageNumber="262">Notes and taxonomic affinities—</emphasis>
usually have imparipinnate (sometimes paripinnate) leaves, with some species reaching up to 65 leaflets per leaf [(as
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from the Greater Antilles).
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, an species from the Caribbean islands to northern South America, also bear only unifoliolate leaves and format and foliar dimensions are similar to those of
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mainly by its gynoecium of 4 carpels united by a discoid stigma (vs. 3 carpels with a capitate, slightly 3-lobed stigma). Characteristics of staminate flowers (as usual in
) as pistillodium format or shape of stamens are virtually identical in both species, but this is a common trait among the species of the genus. Other species that is morphologically similar to the new species is the partially sympatric
, with leaves 1(rarely) to 3–5(–7) foliolate leaves occurring on the same plant as seen above. The new species differs mainly in bearing all leaves with one leaflet [vs. (1–)3–5(7) leaflets in
<emphasisid="B927E97BBA30D841FF14FDA4FD1CD143"bold="true"box="[189,644,556,581]"pageId="4"pageNumber="263">Distribution and habitat, phenology—</emphasis>
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). The species is found in forested areas on sandy or sandy-clay soils in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest biome in the vicinities of Capela, Maruim, Nossa Senhora do Socorro and Carmópolis. In Carmópolis, the species is found on forested hills of the Serra das Cajazeiras. It has been collected with flowers from April to May and with fruits from April to August.
Local people use the leaves as an infusion for treating conjunctivitis and an ethanol solution is employed as a yellow dye. The wood was used in the past in carpentry (Dr. Aristônio
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can be referred to as an Endangered Species (EN) according to the IUCN Redlist Categories and Criteria (
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). This species is known from only three localities in forests of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest biome, which has been suffering from a rapid process of deforestation (
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,
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, which is projected to decrease (criteria IUCN B1a, B1bi, B1bii, B1biii). Fortunately, the species is found in protected areas such as Floresta Nacional do Imbura and Refúgio da Vida Silvestre Mata do Junco, in the municipalities of Nossa Senhora do Socorro and Capela.