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Aosa sigmoidea, a new species of the genus Aosa (Loasaceae) from Brazil
Author(s) -
Weigend Maximilian
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
nordic journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1756-1051
pISSN - 0107-055X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-1051.1999.tb00666.x
Subject(s) - biology , genus , botany
A new species of Aosa (Loasaceae) is described from Minas Gerais in Brazil. A. sigmoidea clearly is a close relative of Aosa rostrata from the same area. The plant differs in being very much taller (2 m in A. sigmoidea in comparsion to 0.05–0.30 m in A. rostrata ) and in having capsules with a clavate inferior portion which is 7–10 mm long while the inferior capsule portion in A. rostrata is hemisphaerical and only 1.5–2 mm in diameter.