A synopsis of the genus Drosera (Droseraceae) in Brazil
Author
Gonella, Paulo Minatel
0000-0001-8332-5326
Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Campus Sete Lagoas, Rodovia MG 424, km 47, Sete Lagoas, MG, 35701 - 970, Brazil & Laboratório de Sistemática Vegetal, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 277, São Paulo, SP, 05508 - 900, Brazil & pmgonella @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8332 - 5326
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Author
Sano, Paulo Takeo
0000-0002-1709-1215
Laboratório de Sistemática Vegetal, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 277, São Paulo, SP, 05508 - 900, Brazil & ptsano @ usp. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1709 - 1215
ptsano@usp.br
Author
Rivadavia, Fernando
0000-0002-9836-4472
185 SW 7 th St, Miami, Florida 33130, USA & fe _ riva @ uol. com. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9836 - 4472
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Author
Fleischmann, Andreas
0000-0002-4917-4736
Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Campus Sete Lagoas, Rodovia MG 424, km 47, Sete Lagoas, MG, 35701 - 970, Brazil & Botanische Staatssammlung München (SNSB-BSM), Menzinger Strasse 67, D- 80638 Munich, Germany & Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Campus Sete Lagoas, Rodovia MG 424, km 47, Sete Lagoas, MG, 35701 - 970, Brazil & GeoBio-Center LMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany & Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Campus Sete Lagoas, Rodovia MG 424, km 47, Sete Lagoas, MG, 35701 - 970, Brazil & fleischmann @ bio. lmu. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4917 - 4736 * Author for correspondence & Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Campus Sete Lagoas, Rodovia MG 424, km 47, Sete Lagoas, MG, 35701 - 970, Brazil
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Phytotaxa
2022
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Drosera cayennensis
Sagot
ex
Diels (1906: 86)
. Figures 4c, 11a–c
Lectotype
:
—
FRENCH GUIANA
.
Bei Cayenne in der Savana
[only on the B specimen, the P and K specimens just denote “Cayenne”], 1859, (Herb. Sagot
No
1228)
Leprieur
s.n.
[
P-749150
! first-step
lectotype
designated by
Duno de Stefano & Culham (1995)
, secondstep lectotype designated here
;
isolectotypes B-6813!, K-000432533!, P-749149
!].
=
Drosera sanariapoana
Steyermark (1952: 243)
.
Type:
—
VENEZUELA
.
Amazonas
: wet savanna, vicinity of
Sanariapo
, near
Río Sanariapo
, tributary of
Orinoco
,
08 September 1944
,
Steyermark 58472
(
holotype
F-0055165!; isotypes NY-00328844!, VEN-31269 image!)
.
=
Drosera colombiana
Fernández (1965: 226)
.
Type:
—
COLOMBIA
.
Meta
:
Llanos de San Martín
, en sabana,
July 1948
,
Dryander 3019
(
holotype
US-1933748!; isotype COL-100577 fragm. image!)
.
=
Drosera panamensis
Correa & Taylor (1976: 390)
.
Type:
—
PANAMA
.
Veraguas
:
La Yegunda
,
Altos de Baltazar
y
el Veladero
,
650 m
,
04 August 1976
,
Correa et al. 2215
(
holotype
PMA-54042 image!; isotypes CHR, COL-000001433 image!, DUKE-10000516 image!, F-0055160!, K-000432557!, MEXU-00206621 image!, MO-176758!, NSW, U-0001634 image!, US-00100651!)
.
=
Drosera pumila
Santos (1986: 305
, as “
pumilla
”).
Type:
—
BRAZIL
.
Mato Grosso
: Cataqui-Iamain,
Campo dos Urupás
,
December 1918
,
Kuhlmann 1987
(
holotype
R-000027694!)
.
Seasonal geophyte perennial
, rosetted, acaulescent.
Leaves
decumbent, with geniculate-involute vernation, distinctly petiolate, spatulate, lamina obovate to obovate-cuneate; stipule rectangular in outline, divided into laciniate segments from near the base.
Scape
erect at the base, short, 2.5–8.0 cm long, 1–4(–8)-flowered, densely to sparsely eglandularpilose from base to apex, occasionally also sparsely glandular-pilose towards the apex; sepals lanceolate, united at the very base, exclusively eglandular-pilose, or both glandular- and eglandular-pilose, the glandular trichomes shorter and sparser than the eglandular, reflexed in the fruit; petals light pink to white; gynoecium 3-carpelate, styles bifurcated at the base.
Seeds
ovoid, testa foveolate.
Illustrations:
—Duno de Stefano (1995: 81, figs. 1h–m—habit and details);
Silva
& Giulietti (1997: 97
, figs. 11J–S— habit and details).
Distribution:
—Central America:
Costa Rica
,
Panama
; South America:
Colombia
,
Venezuela
,
Guyana
,
Suriname
, French Guiana,
Peru
,
Brazil
(North: AC, AM, AP, PA, RO, RR, TO; Central-West: DF, GO, MT; Fig. 4c), and
Bolivia
.
FIGURE.
Drosera cayennensis
(
a–c
):
a
, habit (Santa Elena de Uairén, Bolívar, Venezuela);
b
, rosette;
c
, flower (Parque Nacional dos Campos Amazônicos, RO).
Drosera chimaera
(
d–f
):
d
, rosette;
e
, rosette, side view;
f
, flower (Cristália, MG).
Drosera chrysolepis
(
g–k
):
g
, habitat, among grasses;
h
, habit;
i
, detail of the stem, showing the stipules and leaf bases;
j
, inflorescence apex (Serra do Cipó, MG);
k
, flower (Itacambira, MG). Photo credits:
a
by FR;
b, c
by Jairo de
Souza Laurentino
;
d–k
by PMG.
The distribution here presented for
D. cayennensis
in
Brazil
is much broader than previously reported for this species, which was so far only recorded from the states of Amazonas, Pará and
Rondônia
(
Correa &
Silva 2005
,
Silva 2010
). It is also first reported for
Costa Rica
.
Habitat:
—Sandy and clayish soils in seasonally wet areas of savanna in the Cerrado and Amazon Rainforest domains, and also in
campo rupestre
vegetation in sandy-clayish soils with quartz gravel. Found from sea level to
1600 m
a.s.l.
Phenology:—
In
Brazil
,
D. cayennensis
has been found with flowers between December and March, which corresponds to the wet season. The species survives underground as dormant roots during the dry season, usually from April to September, when its presence is completely imperceptible.
Conservation status:
—Least Concern (LC).
Drosera cayennensis
is a widespread species found in large populations across its range (
Brazil
: AOO=
92 km
2
, EOO=
3,826,685 km
2
; global: AOO=
256 km
2
, EOO=
7,484,077 km
2
). The species is, however, threatened by the expansion of agriculture and habitat transformation for cattle ranching. In
Brazil
, it occurs inside protected areas in the National Parks of the Campos Amazônicos (AM, RO), Chapada dos Guimarães (MT), Chapada dos Veadeiros (GO) and Viruá (RR), as well as in the State Park of Xingu (MT) and the State Forest of Trombetas (PA).
Notes:
—
Drosera cayennensis
presents a vegetative morphology very similar to that of
D. hirtella
Saint-Hilaire (1826: 262)
and
D. lutescens
(
Saint-Hilaire 1826: 263
) Gonella, Rivadavia & A.Fleischm.
, but is easily distinguished from those species by the shorter scapes up to
8 cm
long (
vs
. longer scapes usually longer than
10 cm
long), with erect base (Fig. 11b;
vs
. arcuate base), exclusively eglandular-pilose from base to apex to sometimes also glandular-pilose towards the apex (
vs
. always both glandular and eglandular-pilose), eglandular trichomes white (
vs
. red in
D. hirtella
), sepals lanceolate and united only at the very base (
vs
. elliptic and united at basal 1/3), petals light pink to white (Fig. 11c;
vs
. pink), and seeds with foveolate testa (
vs
. reticulate).
The species shows a high variability regarding its scape indumentum, from densely and exclusively eglandularpilose to sparsely eglandular-pilose at the base, becoming densely (and sometimes exclusively) glandular-pilose at the apex. Such variability is especially visible in the southern range of this species, in Central-West
Brazil
(GO, DF, MT). This could perhaps be a result of introgression between this species and
D. lutescens
and/or
D. hirtella
. Suspected hybrids between
D. cayennensis
and
D. hirtella
have been observed at one site near Cristalina,
Goiás
, but it is unknown if these hybrids are fertile (see ‘Natural Hybrids’ below for specimens and photograph).
Correa &
Silva (2005)
placed
D. pumila
under synonymy of
D. montana
, however, leaf and sepal morphology, as well as scape indumentum are coherent with the inclusion of this name under
D. cayennensis
synonymy, as first suggested by
Rivadavia (2005)
and further supported by the morphological studies of
Rivadavia
et al.
(2014)
. For the present work, the
holotype
of
D. pumila
was thoroughly examined and no difference was observed between this taxon and the exclusively eglandular-pilose morphotype (representing the type) of
D. cayennensis
. In discordance with
Correa &
Silva (2005: 48)
, who claimed the type material to be missing and probably lost at R (“probablemente esté extraviado”), the
holotype
of
D. pumila
was found and personally studied at R by the current authors, making superfluous the lectotypification of the illustration in
Santos (1986)
by
Correa &
Silva (2005)
. The original spelling “
pumilla
” of the epithet by
Santos (1986)
is a misspelling of the Latin word “
pumila
” (meaning “dwarf”; correctly spelled in the handwritten label attached to the
holotype
), therefore it is an orthographic error correctable under ICN Art. 60.1 (
Turland
et al.
2018
), without the need for conservation of the name.
Contrary to Fernández (1965) and based on the analysis of the
type
material of both
D. colombiana
and
D. cayennensis
, it was here found that these two taxa share the same scape and sepal indumentum and sepal shape, thus,
D. colombiana
is also considered a synonym of
D. cayennensis
(as already proposed by
Duno de Stefano & Culham 1995
).
The record of
D. kaieteurensis
for the Viruá National Park by
Costa
et al.
(2016)
actually represents a misidentified specimen of
D. cayennensis
.
Diels (1906)
cites the specimen “
Sagot 1228
” as the type, however, this number represents the Sagot’s herbarium genus code, and not a collector’s number. The specimen was actually collected by Leprieur and duplicates are found in different European herbaria, which are by definition
syntypes
, making a lectotypification necessary. Since
Diels (1906)
validated a name written by Sagot on the herbarium label (“
msc. in schedis.
”), and the only duplicate with both Sagot’s and Diels’ handwritten labels is the one at B, that would be the natural choice for a
lectotype
. However,
Duno de Stefano & Culham (1995)
cite a “type” only for P, which is considered as inadvertent lectotypification (ICN Arts. 7.11 and 9.10;
Turland
et al.
2018
). Since two duplicates of such specimen are found at P, but
Duno de Stefano & Culham (1995)
mention no unique specimen identifier (such as herbarium inventory number or barcode), we make here a second-step lectotypification (ICN Art. 9.17;
Turland
et al.
2018
) by selecting the specimen with Sagot’s handwritten attached diagnosis (P-749150) as the
lectotype
.
Representative specimens examined:
—
BRAZIL
.
Acre
:
Cruzeiro do Sul
,
Estrada Alemanha
,
27 May 1971
,
Fittkau
P13311
(
INPA
)
.
Amapá
:
Coastal Region
,
between Rios Cujubim and Flechal
,
08 August 1962
,
Pires
&
Cavalcante
52401
(K, NY).
Amazonas
: “Estrada do Estanho” road to
Igarapé Preto
, ca.
60 km
SE of Transamazon Highway
,
02 July 1979
,
Calderon
et al. 2744
(
US
).
Canutama
, BR-319, savanna a
80 km
de Porto Velho
,
23 March 2013
,
Bigio
et al. 613
(
RON
)
.
Distrito Federal
:
Fazenda Água Limpa
, divisa com
Reserva Ecológica
do IBGE,
14 March 2009
,
Meneguzzo
et al. 84
(
UB
)
.
Goiás
:
Alto Paraíso de Goiás
, limite nordeste do
Parque Nacional da Chapada
dos
Veadeiros
,
14 April 1995
,
Rivadavia
&
Ogassavara
384
(
SPF
)
.
Pirenópolis
, lado esquerdo da estrada que sobe a serra para as cachoeiras,
07 January 2001
,
Rivadavia
1242
(
SPF
)
.
Mato Grosso
:
Chapada
dos
Guimarães
, nascente ao lado do córrego da
Mata Fria
,
23 February 1994
,
Rivadavia
&
Cardoso
255
(
SPF
)
.
São Felix do Araguaia
, próximo à cidade,
28 March 2008
,
Cardoso
107
(
SPF
)
.
Pará
:
Óbidos
,
Floresta Estadual do Trombetas
,
07 June 2019
,
Zappi
et al. 4793
(
MG
)
;
ibid
.,
09 June 2019
,
Nunes
et al. 548
(
MG
)
.
Vigia
,
Campina do Palha
,
20 January 1950
,
Black
50- 8639
(
US
);
ibid
., direita da PA-140,
17 March 2001
,
Rivadavia
1247
(
SPF
)
.
Rondônia
:
Basin of Rio Madeira
,
Margin of Mutumparaná
airstrip,
25 November 1968
,
Prance
et al. 8860
(
INPA
, K, NY,
US
).
Roraima
:
Boa Vista
, lado leste do km 570 da BR-174,
27 May 2007
,
Rivadavia
2583
(
SPF
)
.
Caracaraí
, PARNA
Viruá
,
23 July 2010
,
Barbosa
1284
(
INPA
,
UEC
)
.
Tocantins
:
Mateiros
, APA
Jalapão
,
11 June 2006
,
Rivadavia
2192
(
SPF
)
.
Material outside Brazil examined:
—
COSTA RICA
.
San José
:
Turrubares
,
Cuenca del Tárcoles
,
10 October 2009
,
Hammel et al. 25428
(
MO
)
.