Dalechampia macrobractea is a new species of Euphorbiaceae described from Tanzania and Zambia, Africa. It is similar to D. capensis due to having the deeply lobed leaves and three-lobed involucral bracts, but differs from this species in the size and shape of the leaves, number of pistillate bracteoles, and the absence of glandular trichomes on the margin of the pistillate bracteoles. We place it in Dalechampia sect. Dalechampia because the staminate involucel is two-lipped and the laminar staminate bracteoles are entire. Illustrations and comments about its geographical distribution and habitat are also provided.
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30 May 2019
Dalechampia macrobractea, a New Species of Euphorbiaceae from Southern East Africa
Rafaela Alves Pereira-Silva,
Sarah Maria Athiê-Souza,
Peter B. Phillipson,
André Laurênio de Melo,
Margareth F. Sales,
W. Scott Armbruster
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Systematic Botany
Vol. 44 • No. 2
May 2019
Vol. 44 • No. 2
May 2019
Dalechampia
Dalechampia sect
Paleotropics
Plukenetieae
taxonomy