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<mods:namePart>Echternacht, Livia</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Laboratorio de Sistematica Vegetal, Departamento de Botanica, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Rua do Matao 277, CEP 05508 - 900, Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil &amp; UMR 7207 CNRS MNHN UPMC, Centre de Recherche en Paleobiodiversite et Paleoenvironnements, MNHN, 57 rue Cuvier, CC 48, F- 75005, Paris, France</mods:affiliation>
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Paepalanthus rectifolius 
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, Echtern. &amp; Sano
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="8">Replaced name:</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="8">Syngonanthus weddellii</emphasis>
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Moldenke var. 
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Moldenke, Phytologia 25: 224. 1973. TYPE: BRAZIL. 
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. 
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: Serra dos Pirineus, ca. 18 km E of 
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town, 1000 m alt., 15 Jan. 1972, H. S. Irwin, W. R. Anderson, M. Stieber &amp; E. Y. Lee 34259 (holotype, LL!; isotype, NY!).
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Herbs, 20-40 cm long. Aerial stem 10-20 cm long, pilose with long curled filamentous trichomes ca. 1 cm long, bearing distal inflorescences; after the flowering period, the stem elongates and ramifies distally to the inflorescences, giving rise to other inflorescences in the next fertile period. Leaves spirally disposed along the elongated stem, persistent, linear, flat, patent, 2.0-4.0 
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0.1-0.2 cm, villous in both surfaces, with pedicellate filamentous erect to curled trichomes ca. 0.7 cm long, sheath enlarged, up to 2-3 mm, semi-amplexicaul, apex acute to acuminate. Spathes 2.5-3.5 cm long, abaxial surface pubescent as the leaves, oblique opening, apex acute. Scapes 10-45 per fertile branch, 15-25 cm long, pubescent with short adpressed simple trichomes, early glabrescent. Capitula 5-8 mm diam., spherical; involucral bracts in 5-8 series, oblong, concave, ca. 3.0 
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1.0 mm, external series completely glabrous in both surfaces, internal series densely tufted and ciliated at the apex, with trichomes ca. 0.3 mm long, with clavate apical cells, golden, apex obtuse; receptacle semi-spherical, hairy. Flowers dimerous, ca. 150 per capitulum, ca. 4 times more staminates than pistillates. Floral bracts linear, flat, ca. 1.5 mm long, hairy toward the apex to glabrescent, trichomes with clavate apical cells, brown to dark, apex acute. Staminate flowers ca. 1.5-2.0 mm long, including the pedicel; pedicel ca. 0.5 mm long, with long (ca. 1 mm) trichomes; sepals navicular, ca. 1.0-1.5 mm long, hairy toward the apex, soon glabrescent, trichomes 
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clavate apical cells, brown to dark in the apex, cream at the base, apex truncate, membranaceous; antophore ca. 0.5 mm long, cream, membranaceous; corolla tubular, ca. 1.0 mm long, glabrous, with the same color as the sepals, membranaceous, involute after anthesis; stamens ca. 1.0 mm long, anthers white; pistillodes 2, ca. 0.1 mm long, papillose, hyaline. Pistillate flowers ca. 1.5-2.0 mm long, including the pedicel; pedicel ca. 0.5 mm long, with trichomes ca. 1 mm long; sepals navicular, ca. 
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-1.5 mm long, hairy toward the apex, soon glabrescent, trichomes with clavate apical cells, brown to dark in the apex, cream at the base, apex truncate, membranaceous; petals free, ca. 1.0 mm long, densely pilose toward the apex, trichomes with clavate apical cells, hyaline, membranaceous; gynoecium ca. 0.5 mm long, ovary ca. 0.2 mm long, style ca. 0.2 mm, appendages ca. 0.05 mm long, hyaline, inserted at the same point of the stigmatic branches, stigmatic branches 0.2 mm long, bifid. Seeds not seen.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Figure 1.</emphasis>
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, Echter &amp; Sano 
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Habit 
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Leaf detail 
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Involucral bract from the internal series, abaxial surface 
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Floral bract abaxial surface 
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Staminate flower 
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Pistillate flower 
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Gynoecium. Drawn from the type collection (
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, 
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, 
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&amp; 
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, LL).
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Comments.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Syngonanthus weddellii</emphasis>
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var. 
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Moldenke was misplaced in 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Syngonanthus</emphasis>
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as this taxon has truly free petals on the pistillate flower and bifid stigmatic branches. It is therefore transferred at the species level to 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Paepalanthus</emphasis>
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, a genus encompassing such morphological traits. The epithet 
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,however, has been previously used in 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Paepalanthus</emphasis>
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by 
<bibRefCitation author="Koernicke, F" editor="Martius, KFP" journalOrPublisher="Typographia Regia, Muenchen" pageId="4" pageNumber="11" pagination="312 - 320" refId="B2" refString="Koernicke, F, 1863. Eriocaulaceae. In: Martius, KFP, Eichler, AW, Eds., Flora Brasiliensis 3(1). Typographia Regia, Muenchen: 312 - 320" title="Eriocaulaceae." volumeTitle="Flora Brasiliensis 3 (1)." year="1863">Koernicke (1863)</bibRefCitation>
. Thus, since it is not available, we propose the new name 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Paepalanthus rectifolius</emphasis>
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, referring to straight and ascending leaves, which differ the species from the most similar ones. 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Paepalanthus rectifolius</emphasis>
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is known only from the type specimens collected in the mountains east of 
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, in the Serra dos Pirineus, 
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, Brazil (
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). During our research on 
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systematics, we studied collections from several herbaria (B, BHCB, BM, BR, BRLU, C, CESJ, ESA, ESALQ, F, G, HUEFS, INPA, K, L, LE, LL, M, MO, NY, OUPR, OXF, P, R, RB, S, SP, SPF, UEC and UPS; acronyms in 
<bibRefCitation author="Thiers, B" journalOrPublisher="Springer - Verlag, Berlin" pageId="4" pageNumber="11" publicationUrl="http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/IndexHerbariorum.asp" refId="B8" refString="Thiers, B, continuously updated. Index herbariorum: a global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden's Virtual Herbarium., http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/IndexHerbariorum.asp" title="Index herbariorum: a global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden's Virtual Herbarium" url="http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/IndexHerbariorum.asp" year="continuously updated">Thiers continuously updated</bibRefCitation>
). However, despite the presence of several collections from the Serra dos Pirineus, we did not find other specimen of 
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besides the type. Individuals with immature as well as old inflorescences were collected in January.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Figure 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Paepalanthus rectifolius</emphasis>
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, Echter &amp; Sano distribution map.
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The morphologically related species are 
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(Bong.) Koern. (1863), 
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(Bong.) Koern. (1863), and 
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Koern. (1863), three species with dimerous flowers recently excluded from 
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sect. 
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Ruhland (1903) (
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and Sano 2010
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). As mentioned above, 
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differs from these three species by its ascending and straight leaves (vs. recurved). It is easily differentiated from 
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and 
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by its linear leaves (vs. lanceolate), golden involucral bracts (vs. dark castaneous), and linear floral bracts (vs. oblong). 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Paepalanthus flaccidus</emphasis>
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is the most similar species, due to the linear leaves, to the golden involucral bracts, whose internal series might also be tufted in the apex, and to the villous pubescence, with long pedicellate trichomes. Both may be considered sympatric as they are reported to 
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and occur in the same habitats. 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="10">Paepalanthus rectifolius</emphasis>
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is distinguished from 
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by its much longer leaves (2.0-4.0 cm vs. 0.5-1.5 cm), linear floral bracts (vs. oblong), and staminate flowers without lobes (vs. markedly lobed).
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