Two new species of Luetzelburgia Harms (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae, Vataireoid clade) are described and illustrated under the names Luetzelburgia andina and L. sotoi. A detailed discussion of the diagnostic morphological characters of the new species is provided. Both new species are found in seasonally dry forests in Bolivia. This discovery extends the previously known range for the genus to outside Brazil.
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1 September 2012
Two New Species of Luetzelburgia (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) from the Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests of Bolivia
Domingos Benício Oliveira Silva Cardoso,
Luciano Paganucci de Queiroz,
Haroldo Cavalcante de Lima
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Systematic Botany
Vol. 37 • No. 3
July 2012
Vol. 37 • No. 3
July 2012
Bosque seco Chiquitano
Chiquitano dry forest
clado Vataireoide
inter-Andean dry valleys
SDTF
SDTF
Sophoreae