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Salvia tonaticensis (Lamiaceae), a rare new species from Mexico

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Salvia tonaticensis is described and illustrated as a new species to science. It is known from the extreme southern portion of the Estado de Mexico and northern Guerrero, Mexico. It belongs to section Polystachyae; however, unlike the species of the section hitherto known, it possesses simple, bifurcate and trifurcate multicellular hairs on the stems, abaxial leaf surface, petioles, and inflorescence rachis. The flowers are also larger than those of other species of the section, and the calyces are densely tomentose with purple or white multicellular hairs that vary from simple to dendriform. Within the section this species shows some morphological similarities to S. connivens.

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Se describe e ilustra como especie nueva para la ciencia a Salvia tonaticensis, conocida del extremo sur del Estado de México y norte de Guerrero. Se ubica en la sección Polystachyae; pero, se diferencia de las especies hasta ahora conocidas de esta sección por presentar pelos multicelulares simples, bifurcados y trifurcados en tallo, envés de las hojas, pecíolos y raquis de la inflorescencia, por las flores más grandes, los cálices densamente tomentosos con pelos multicelulares que varían de simples a dendríticos, de color morado o blanco. Dentro de esta sección muestra varias similitudes morfológicas con S. connivens.

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Acknowledgments

Funding for this study was provided by various funding sources: the Scientific Research Coordination of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (project 8.16), the Instituto de Ecología, A. C. (Account 20006), the Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia and Tecnología (CONACYT; grant number 218990). We gratefully thank the curators and personnel of the herbaria CODAGEM, FCME and MEXU for access to their collections. We thank Dr. Martín Rubi Arriaga and Dr. Marco Antonio Bautista for facilitating the consultation of E. Matuda’s collections, and we are grateful to Isidro Arizmendi Ayala for invaluable help in the field. We also wish to acknowledge Claudia De Jesús for assistance with producing the map, Alfonso Barbosa for the illustration, and Jerzy Rzedowski, Victor Steinmann, Jesús González-Gallegos and an anonymous reviewer for critical review of the manuscript.

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  1. Facultad de Biología, Laboratorio de Sistemática Molecular, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México

    Sabina I. Lara-Cabrera & Brenda Y. Bedolla-García

  2. Instituto de Ecología, A. C., Centro Regional del Bajío, Apdo. Postal 386, 61600, Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, México

    Sergio Zamudio

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Lara-Cabrera, S.I., Bedolla-García, B.Y. & Zamudio, S. Salvia tonaticensis (Lamiaceae), a rare new species from Mexico. Brittonia 66, 1–7 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-012-9297-2

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