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<taxonomicName LSID="776A6F04-8AF8-53ED-9D88-347FF7C7C263" authority="(Hassk.) J. R. Grant, Novon 14 (3): 299. 2004." authorityName="(Hassk.) J. R. Grant, Novon 14 (3): 299. 2004." class="Liliopsida" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Tradescantia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Tradescantia boliviana" order="Commelinales" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="boliviana">Tradescantia boliviana (Hassk.) J.R.Grant, Novon 14(3): 299. 2004.</taxonomicName>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Tradescantia boliviana (Hassk.) J. R. Grant. A detail of the tuberous roots B habit C detail of fertile branch, showing the conduplicate leaf-blades, and axillary inflorescences D front view of a flower at anthesis, showing the rectangular connectives and C-shaped anther sacs E detail of an immature capsule, showing the densely glandular-pubescent pedicel and sepals, and the capsule apically velutine. Photograph A-B &amp; D by P. Christian (RarePlants. co. uk), C &amp; E by Instituto Darwinion." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.80.12232.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/133212" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Figs 6</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="F8" captionText="Figure 8. Distribution map of studied Tradescantia L. in the South American domains. Full squares - T. crassula; White squares - T. chrysophylla; Triangles - T. valida; Circles - T. ambigua; Stars - T. boliviana. Light green- Amazon Forest; Orange- Cerrado; Red- Caatinga; Yellow- Chaco and Pantanal; Olive-green- Pampa; Dark green- Atlantic Forest; Purple- Andean Yungas." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.80.12232.figure8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/133214" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">, 8</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Hassk &amp; Kanitz" authorityYear="1872" baseAuthorityName="Hassk" class="Liliopsida" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Skofitzia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Skofitzia boliviana" order="Commelinales" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="boliviana">
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boliviana
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(Hassk.) Hassk. &amp; Kanitz, Oesterr. Bot. Z. 22: 147. 1872.
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Mandonia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Mandonia boliviana" order="Commelinales" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="boliviana">Mandonia boliviana</taxonomicName>
Hassk., Flora 54: 260. 1871. Lectotype (designated by
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). BOLIVIA. Larecaja: viciniis Sorata montis colles Ullontigi ad scopulorumra dicemi n regionet emperata, fl., fr., Feb-Apr 1858, G. Mandon 1239 (L barcode L0374955!; isolectotypes: F barcode F0076407F!, G barcode G00489633!, GH n.v., K n.v., P 3ex barcodes P00376711!, P00376712!, P00376713!).
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Hoehne" authorityYear="1915" class="Liliopsida" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Tradescantia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Tradescantia ambigua subsp. var. var. pilosula" order="Commelinales" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="ambigua" subSpecies="var." variety="pilosula">Tradescantia ambigua var. pilosula</taxonomicName>
Hoehne, Relat. Commiss. Linhas. Telegr. Estrateg. Matto Grosso Amazonas 5, 5: 14. 1915. Lectotype (designated here). BRAZIL. Mato Grosso do Sul:
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, fl., Feb 1911, F.C. Hoehne 4499 (R barcode R000004848!).
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Syn. nov.</emphasis>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Herbs</emphasis>
perennial, with a definite base, terrestrial to rupicolous.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Roots</emphasis>
thick, tuberous, brown to dark-brown, densely to sparsely pilose with brown to dark-brown hairs, emerging from the rhizome and from the basal most nodes.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Stems</emphasis>
erect, succulent,
<pageBreakToken pageId="14" pageNumber="15" start="start">unbranched</pageBreakToken>
, rarely branched near the base; internodes green to vinaceous to reddish brown, sometimes with vinaceous striations, densely velutine, sometimes becoming glabrous at age, hairs hyaline to light brown.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Leaves</emphasis>
spirally-alternate, evenly distributed along the stems, sessile, the apical ones gradually smaller than the basal ones; sheaths green, densely velutine, hairs hyaline to light brown, margins ciliate, hairs hyaline to light brown; lamina succulent conduplicate, medium to dark green adaxially, light to medium
<pageBreakToken pageId="15" pageNumber="16" start="start">green</pageBreakToken>
abaxially, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, rarely ovate, adaxially sparsely velutine, sometimes becoming glabrous at age, abaxially densely velutine, hairs light brown, base truncate to rounded, margins vinaceous to reddish brown, ciliate, apex acute; midvein conspicuous, impressed adaxially, prominently obtuse abaxially, secondary veins inconspicuous to slightly conspicuous on both sides.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Inflorescences</emphasis>
(
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">main florescences</emphasis>
) consisting of a sessile double-cincinni fused back to back, axillary in the uppermost nodes; peduncles inconspicuous; basal bract inconspicuous, tubular, hyaline, glabrous; peduncle bracts absent; supernumerary bracts sometimes present, 1-3 per inflorescence, similar in shape and size to the cincinni bracts; cincinni bracts reduced, light green, hispid, base non-saccate; cincinni (4-)8-22-flowered; bracteoles inconspicuous, imbricate, linear-triangular to triangular, hyaline.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Flowers</emphasis>
bisexual, actinomorphic, flat (not forming a floral tube); floral buds narrowly ovoid, dark pink to vinaceous; pedicels dark pink to vinaceous, densely glandular-pubescent, hairs light brown; sepals 3, equal, ovate, cucullate, dorsally not keeled, dark pink to vinaceous, rarely green, densely glandular-pubescent, hairs light brown, apex acute, margins hyaline light-green, persistent in fruit; petals 3, equal, sessile, broadly ovate, medium to dark pink to mauve, rarely white or light pink to lilac, base cuneate, margins entire, apex acute; stamens 6, equal, filaments light medium to dark pink to mauve, medially bearded with moniliform, medium to dark pink to mauve hairs, straight at anthesis, coiling at post anthesis, connective expanded, quadrangular, yellow to orange, anthers sacs curved, yellow, pollen yellow; ovary oblongoid, 3-loculate, white, smooth, velutine at apex, style straight, medium to dark pink, stigma capitulate, white to light pink, pistil longer than the stamens.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Capsules</emphasis>
broadly oblongoid, apiculate due to persistent style apex, green when immature, brown when mature, sparsely velutine at the apex, smooth, 3-valved.
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Seeds</emphasis>
uniseriate, 2 per locule, ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, not cleft towards the embryotega, ventrally flattened, testa grey to greyish brown, farinose, scrobiculate arranged in ridges radiating from the embryotega; embryotega dorsal, conspicuous, with a prominent apicule; hilum linear, as long as the seed.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Figure 6.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Tradescantia boliviana</emphasis>
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(Hassk.) J.R.Grant.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">A</emphasis>
detail of the tuberous roots
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">B</emphasis>
habit
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">C</emphasis>
detail of fertile branch, showing the conduplicate leaf-blades, and axillary inflorescences
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">D</emphasis>
front view of a flower at anthesis, showing the rectangular connectives and C-shaped anther sacs
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">E</emphasis>
detail of an immature capsule, showing the densely glandular-pubescent pedicel and sepals, and the capsule apically velutine. Photograph A-B &amp; D by P. Christian (RarePlants.co.uk), C &amp; E by Instituto Darwinion.
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Specimens seen.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">BRAZIL. Mato Grosso do Sul</emphasis>
: Campo Grande, Empraba Gado de Corte, fl., fr., 28 Feb 2009, V.J. Pott 10452 (CGMS, HURB);
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, fl., Feb 1911, F.C. Hoehne 4723 (R); loc. cit.,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Mineração">Mineracao</normalizedToken>
Corumbaense Reunida SA,
<normalizedToken originalValue="paredão">paredao</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="próximo">proximo</normalizedToken>
ao paiol de esplosivos, fl., fr., 23 Feb 2005, G.A. Damasceno-Junior et al. 3488 (COR, K); loc. cit., Serra Urucum, fl., fr., 24 Feb 2005, A. Pott et al. 12655 (CGMS, HMS); loc. cit, Fazenda Banda Alta, fl., 11 Jan 2007, A. Takahasi &amp; S.M. Ribas 1175 (COR);
<normalizedToken originalValue="Ladário">Ladario</normalizedToken>
, Fazenda
<normalizedToken originalValue="São">Sao</normalizedToken>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Sebastião">Sebastiao</normalizedToken>
do
<normalizedToken originalValue="Carandá">Caranda</normalizedToken>
, fl., fr., 13 Mar 2003, G.A. Damasceno-Junior et al. 2773 (COR); Nioaque, Assentamento Andalucia, fl., 6 Dec 2008, L.C.S.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Magalhães">Magalhaes</normalizedToken>
&amp; G.A.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Damasceno-Júnior">Damasceno-Junior</normalizedToken>
138 (CGMS, HURB); loc. cit., fl., fr., 9 Jan 2009, L.C.S.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Magalhães">Magalhaes</normalizedToken>
&amp; T.S. Amaral 194 (CGMS, HURB); loc. cit., fl., fr., 9 Jan 2009, L.C.S.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Magalhães">Magalhaes</normalizedToken>
&amp; T.S. Amaral 195 (CGMS); loc. cit., fl., fr., 8 Feb 2009, L.C.S.
<normalizedToken originalValue="Magalhães">Magalhaes</normalizedToken>
&amp; T.S. Yule 278 (CGMS).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Tradescantia boliviana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
restricted to Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Brazil (state of Mato Grosso do Sul). It commonly grows as rupicolous in rocky walls and outcrops, under full sunlight, in the Chaco and Pantanal domains (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="F8" captionText="Figure 8. Distribution map of studied Tradescantia L. in the South American domains. Full squares - T. crassula; White squares - T. chrysophylla; Triangles - T. valida; Circles - T. ambigua; Stars - T. boliviana. Light green- Amazon Forest; Orange- Cerrado; Red- Caatinga; Yellow- Chaco and Pantanal; Olive-green- Pampa; Dark green- Atlantic Forest; Purple- Andean Yungas." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.80.12232.figure8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/133214" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">8</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
<pageBreakToken pageId="16" pageNumber="17" start="start">Phenology</pageBreakToken>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">It was found in bloom and in fruit from December to June.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="conservation status">
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Commelinaceae" genus="Tradescantia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Tradescantia boliviana" order="Commelinales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="boliviana">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Tradescantia boliviana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
possesses a wide EOO (ca. 2,249,457.700 km2), and based solely on this criterion it should be considered Least Concern (LC). Nonetheless, its AOO is considerably reduced (ca. 172.000 km2), added to that fact that most of the studied specimens are at least more than 20 years old. Thus, following the
<bibRefCitation author="IUCN" journalOrPublisher="IUCN Red List Unit, Cambridge" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" publicationUrl="http://www.iucnredlist.org/" refId="B25" refString="IUCN, 2001. The IUCN red list of threatened species, version 2010.4. IUCN Red List Unit, Cambridge, http://www.iucnredlist.org/" title="The IUCN red list of threatened species, version 2010.4" url="http://www.iucnredlist.org/" year="2001">IUCN (2001)</bibRefCitation>
recommendations,
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. boliviana" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="species" species="boliviana">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">T. boliviana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
should be considered Endangered [EN, A2bcd+B2ab(ii, iii, iv, v)+C1+C2a(i)].
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="nomenclatural notes">
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Nomenclatural notes.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
In the protologue of
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. ambigua subsp. var. var. pilosula" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="variety" species="ambigua" subSpecies="var." variety="pilosula">T. ambigua var. pilosula</taxonomicName>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Hoehne, FC" journalOrPublisher="Historia Natural. Relatorio da Commissao de Linhas Telegraphicas Estrategicas de Matto-Grosso ao Amazonas" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" pagination=": 14" refId="B18" refString="Hoehne, FC, 1915. Botanica. Historia Natural. Relatorio da Commissao de Linhas Telegraphicas Estrategicas de Matto-Grosso ao Amazonas anexo 5 (pt. 5): 14" title="Botanica" volume="anexo 5" year="1915">Hoehne (1915)</bibRefCitation>
mentions two collections of his own when describing this new variety. The author makes no reference as to the herbarium in which each specimen is placed or to the existence of possible duplicates. According to
<bibRefCitation author="Stafleu, FA" journalOrPublisher="Gantner Verlag, Rugell, Sweden" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" refId="B37" refString="Stafleu, FA, Cowan, RS, 1979. Taxonomic literature. A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (ed. 2, Vol. 2). Regnum Vegetabile 94. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag, Rugell, Sweden" title="Taxonomic literature. A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (ed. 2, Vol. 2). Regnum Vegetabile 94. A. R. G." year="1979">Stafleu and Cowan (1979)</bibRefCitation>
,
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types are generally at SP with duplicates in several other herbaria. However, after two visits to the SP we were unable to locate any of the specimens (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Hoehne 4499</emphasis>
,
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">4723</emphasis>
). Nonetheless,
<bibRefCitation author="Stafleu, FA" journalOrPublisher="Gantner Verlag, Rugell, Sweden" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" refId="B37" refString="Stafleu, FA, Cowan, RS, 1979. Taxonomic literature. A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (ed. 2, Vol. 2). Regnum Vegetabile 94. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag, Rugell, Sweden" title="Taxonomic literature. A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (ed. 2, Vol. 2). Regnum Vegetabile 94. A. R. G." year="1979">Stafleu and Cowan (1979)</bibRefCitation>
make an important remark that until 1917, Hoehne was living and working in Rio de Janeiro. After analyzing the collection of R, we came across both specimens placed in the general collection. Both specimens were annotated by Hoehne, but the specimen Hoehne 4499 possesses a beautiful illustration attached to it, showing the details of the
<normalizedToken originalValue="plants">plants'</normalizedToken>
floral morphology. Thus, it is designated by us as the lectotype for
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. ambigua subsp. var. var. pilosula" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="variety" species="ambigua" subSpecies="var." variety="pilosula">T. ambigua var. pilosula</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Morphological notes.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Tradescantia boliviana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a morphologically variable species across its distribution. Nonetheless, in the same way as
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. ambigua" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="species" species="ambigua">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">T. ambigua</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, there is no obvious geographical pattern in this variation. The presence of glandular hairs in the pedicels and sepals can be observed in some of the individuals, but aside from that they
<normalizedToken originalValue="dont">don't</normalizedToken>
seem to differ in any other aspect from the other specimens. This variation is peculiar, but not unrecorded in the genus, and a similar scenario is described by
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,
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) for
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. cerinthoides" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="species" species="cerinthoides">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">T. cerinthoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. subsp. sect." pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="section" section="Austrotradescantia">T. sect. Austrotradescantia</taxonomicName>
) and by
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.2307/2399825" author="Faden, RB" journalOrPublisher="Smithsonian Contributions to Botany (Washington, DC)" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" refId="B8" refString="Faden, RB, 1993. https://doi.org/10.2307/2399825" url="https://doi.org/10.2307/2399825" year="1993">Faden (1993)</bibRefCitation>
for
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. crassifolia" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="species" species="crassifolia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">T. crassifolia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. subsp. sect." pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="section" section="Mandonia">T. sect. Mandonia</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
After analyzing the type specimens for
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. ambigua subsp. var. var. pilosula" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="variety" species="ambigua" subSpecies="var." variety="pilosula">T. ambigua var. pilosula</taxonomicName>
, we noticed that the pedicels and sepals are hispid, the connectives are quadrangular, and the ovary velutine to sparsely velutine at apex. Added to that, the distribution of the specimens collected by Hoehne is congruent with the distribution of
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. boliviana" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="species" species="boliviana">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">T. boliviana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but disjunctive from
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. ambigua" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="species" species="ambigua">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">T. ambigua</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Thus, we consider
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. ambigua subsp. var. var. pilosula" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="variety" species="ambigua" subSpecies="var." variety="pilosula">T. ambigua var. pilosula</taxonomicName>
a synonym of
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. boliviana" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="species" species="boliviana">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">T. boliviana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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