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Taxonomic novelties in Myrcia guianensis and allied species (Myrtaceae: Myrteae), including mass-typification in a large and taxonomically challenging group

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The ‘Myrcia guianensis group’, or Guianensis clade, comprises c. 30 species distributed mainly in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes of Brazil. The group is currently being monographed and during this process, type collections have been analysed and a thorough literature search completed; 36 new synonyms are recognised, and 95 lectotypifications and five neotypifications are made.

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The authors are grateful to the curators of the cited herbaria for allowing access to their collections; to David Mabberley and Augusto Giaretta for helpful addition of names to the Myrcia clade Guianensis and to Marcos Sobral, Priscila O. Rosa, Eimear Nic Lughadha and Matheus F. Santos for useful discussion. Thanks are also due to two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on the manuscript. DFL and RG respectively received PhD (in Brazil and abroad; 165669/2013-6; 205237/2014-2) and Research Productivity (306852/2013-6) grants from CNPq.

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  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-970, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Duane Fernandes Lima

  2. Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Postal Code 19031, 81531-970, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

    Renato Goldenberg

  3. Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, UK

    Eve Lucas

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Lima, D.F., Goldenberg, R. & Lucas, E. Taxonomic novelties in Myrcia guianensis and allied species (Myrtaceae: Myrteae), including mass-typification in a large and taxonomically challenging group. Kew Bull 73, 5 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-017-9729-y

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