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<mods:title>A taxonomic revision of Keraunea, including three new species and its phylogenetic realignment with Ehretiaceae (Boraginales)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Moonlight, Peter W.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Cardoso, Domingos Benicio Oliveira Silva</mods:namePart>
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2. 
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Holotype of Keraunea bullata Moonlight &amp; D. B. O. S. Cardoso, M. L. Guedes, D. M. Loureiro &amp; D. L. Santana 9176 (ALCB [ALCB 075855, acc. # 55929, sheet 1])." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.219.101779.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/813028" pageId="0" pageNumber="145">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="145">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Most similar to 
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with relatively broad leaves with brochidodromous venation but differing from it in smaller leaves (reaching 10 
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7.4 cm versus 18 
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12 cm) with a bullate texture (versus rugose) and by its tertiary veins, which are raised from the lower leaf surface (versus not raised).
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. 
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&amp; 
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9176
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(
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="145">Description.</paragraph>
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Scandent shrub or liana, to 2 m. Stems cylindrical, hollow, 2-5 mm in diameter, frequently branching, glabrescent to sparsely pubescent; internodes 2.9-8.2 cm long; side shoots 3.0-4.5 cm long, sericeous. Leaves of main stem unknown. Side shoots with 3-4 leaves, these progressively larger along the shoot; blades 4.2-10.5 
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2.4-7.4 cm, ovate to broadly ovate, velutinous-pubescent, the venation pinnate, brochidodromous, with 4-6 secondary veins; the base rounded to truncate, the margins entire, ciliate, the apex obtuse; petioles 8-19 mm long, straight, velutinous-pubescent. Inflorescence corymbose, with 2-6 flowers; free portion of the peduncle 4-6 mm long, 1.8-2.1 cm long, the remainder adnate to the bracteole, sericeous-pubescent; bracteoles 5.0-5.7 
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2.7-3.1 cm, inserted ca. 
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of the way along the pedicel or rarely lacking, ovate, velutinous-pubescent, the venation as the leaves, the base short-rounded, the margins entire, ciliate, the apex attenuate. Flowers incompletely known, 5-merous. Calyx with the tube campanulate, ca. 1.5 mm long, the lobes ca. 1.5 
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10-12 mm, ensiform, sericeous-pubescent. Corolla unknown; androecium and gynoecium unknown. Fruit inserted on the accrescent bracteole; calyx persistent, expanding to 12 mm long.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="145">Figure 4.</emphasis>
Holotype of 
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Moonlight &amp; D.B.O.S.Cardoso, 
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, 
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(ALCB [ALCB075855, acc. #55929, sheet 1]).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="145">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Endemic to the state of Bahia (Fig. 
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="145">Habitat.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Moonlight &amp; D. B. O. S. Cardoso" authorityYear="2023" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Convolvulaceae" genus="Keraunea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Keraunea bullata" order="Boraginales" pageId="0" pageNumber="145" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="bullata">
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is a species of forests in the transition from humid forests in the coastal Mata 
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phytogeographic domain and seasonally dry forests in the inland Caatinga domain. This forest is described on labels as &quot;Caatinga arborea&quot; (
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) and (
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) as growing on rocky soils. This area has a metamorphic bedrock (often called crystalline in the literature, 
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) and is quite edaphically distinct from the karstic outcrops that are home to 
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and 
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is known from only three localities with a combined EOO of ca. 6,300 km2. We know of no specific conservation threats to this species so provisionally assess it as Vulnerable (VU D2) under IUCN Red List criteria (
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="145">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="145">Named for the bullate texture of the leaves and bracteoles.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="145">Identification notes.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="145">
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is highly distinct within its range. Despite also occurring in the same Mata 
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phytogeographic domain as 
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, their habitat does not overlap. 
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can be morphologically distinguished by its leaf venation (brochidodromous versus camptodromous) and texture (bullate and dull green versus smooth and glossy green).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="145">Additional specimens examined.</paragraph>
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<collectingCountry name="Brazil">Brazil</collectingCountry>
. 
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: Mun. 
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, rod. BA-265, trecho 
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BR-415, [
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(CEPEC [CEPEC00016207], NY [03147645], RB [00725192]). Mun. Juraci, 
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