identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
5D2D0916A74BFF99FF74FCDB17251E12.text	5D2D0916A74BFF99FF74FCDB17251E12.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Marcetia auricularia R. B. Pacifico & Almeda 2022	<div><p>Marcetia auricularia R.B.Pacifico &amp; Almeda, sp. nov. (Figs 1–2).</p><p>Type:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Mucugê, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.292027&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.308417" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.292027/lat -13.308417)">Arredores do Pico da Batávia</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.292027&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.308417" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.292027/lat -13.308417)">Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina</a>, 13°18’30.3”S, 41°17’31.3”W, 1603 m, 24 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico 689, V.E. Bressan &amp; L. Daneu (holotype: HUEM!, isotypes: CAS!, HUEFS!, RB!) .</p><p>Diagnosis:— Differs from Marcetia nummularia Markgraf (1927: 51) by the modally larger leaves 7–15 mm long (vs. 6–8 mm long), equaling or up to twice the length of the internodes (vs. usually shorter than the internodes), the adaxial leaf surfaces becoming glabrous and vaguely granulose-tuberculate (vs. covered with glandular trichomes 0.7–1.2 mm long), longer hypanthia 5–8 mm long (vs. ca. 3 mm long), and by its foliaceous calyx lobes 5–6 mm long (vs. lanceolate, ca. 3 mm long) that are auriculate (vs. not auriculate).</p><p>Erect shrubs 0.4–1 m tall, dichotomously branched. Upper cauline internodes 3–8 mm long, reddish (when fresh) becoming pale brown (when dry) and defoliated with age, quadrangular and sulcate on two of the four opposing faces, densely covered with stout glandular trichomes 0.3–1.1 mm long. Leaves decussate, moderately ascending, mostly concealing uppermost internodes, chartaceous to coriaceous, slightly discolored (when fresh), adaxial surface shiny green, abaxial surface pale green, both leaf surfaces becoming pale brown or reddish (when dry); petioles up to 0.7 mm long; blades 7–15 × 5–10 mm, elliptic to slightly ovate, apex rounded or slightly acute, base truncate to cordate, margin entire to inconspicuously crenulate-ciliate with hyaline trichomes up to 0.5 mm long, often flushed with red, narrowly revolute, adaxial surface glabrous and vaguely granulose-tuberculate, abaxial surface densely covered with glandular trichomes 0.3–1.1 mm long concentrated on the veins, 9–11-nerved from the base (basal acrodromous), venation prominent on the abaxial surface and impressed on the adaxial surface, secondary venation not evident. Flowers 4- merous, concentrated at the apex of the branches, essentially sessile, bracteolate. Bracteoles 2, inconspicuous, 1.2–1.8 × 1.8–2.2 mm, widely ovate, apex acute, base cordate, sparsely covered with hyaline trichomes ca. 0.4 mm long on both surfaces, margin ciliate with similar hyaline trichomes, 1-nerved. Hypanthia (at anthesis) 5–8 mm long, 6–8 mm wide at the torus, reddish, campanulate, equaling the capsule in length at maturity, densely covered with stout glandular trichomes 0.3–1.1 mm long. Calyx tube inconspicuous, ca. 0.1 mm long. Calyx lobes 5–6 mm long, 5–6 mm wide, reddish, erect at anthesis, foliaceous, auriculate, apex acute, margins entire and ciliate with glandular trichomes ca. 0.5 mm long, both surfaces covered with glandular trichomes 0.3–1.1 mm long, the indumentum concentrated on the central portion of the basal half of both surfaces. Petals 11–14 × 8–10 mm, obovate, magenta, the base not unguiculate, apex obtuse, both surfaces glabrous, margins entire and ciliate with minute gland-tipped trichomes up to 0.5 mm long. Stamens 8, isomorphic, erect and ± clustered around the base of the style at anthesis; filaments 8–9 mm long, white, becoming red like the anthers with age or following pollination, glabrous; anthers 3.5–4.5 × 1–1.5 mm, yellow, oblong but somewhat tapering distally, erostrate, pedoconnectives up to 0.3 mm, unappendaged. Ovary (at anthesis) 1.7–2 × 1.3–1.5 mm, superior, subglobose, glabrous, 3-locular, 1/5 basally adnate to the hypanthium; style 13–15 mm long, magenta, glabrous, sigmoid, stigma punctiform. Fruit at maturity a globose loculicidal capsule ca. 5 × 4 mm, pale brown, glabrous, 3-valvate, enveloping hypanthia, rupturing and flaking away with age. Seeds ca. 0.9 × 0.7 mm, brown, rounded-cochleate, testa tuberculate, raphal zone elliptic, ca. 80–90% the length of the seed.</p><p>Additional specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Mucugê. Serra do Gobira, ca. 8.4 km ao sul de Mucugê na linha reta, na última subida próxima ao cume, 13°04’26”S, 41°22’44”W, 1555 m, 19 January 2005, fl., R.M. Harley et al. 55394 (HUEFS!) ; trilha para o <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.378887&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.073889" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.378887/lat -13.073889)">Pico da Batávia</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.378887&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.073889" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.378887/lat -13.073889)">Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina</a>, 13°18’34.3”S, 41°17’35.3”W, 1576 m, 24 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico et al. 686 (CAS!, HUEM!, HUEFS!, RB!) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.378887&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.073889" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.378887/lat -13.073889)">Pico do Gobira</a> e arredores, 13°04’29.0”S, 41°22’44.6”W, 1549 m, 27 June 2022, fr., R. Pacifico et al. 719 (CAS!, HUEM!, HUEFS!, RB!) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.378887&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.073889" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.378887/lat -13.073889)">Pico do Gobira</a> e arredores, 13°04’30.7”S, 41°22’43.4”W, 1532 m, 27 June 2022, 1532 m, fr., R. Pacifico et al. 720 (CAS!, HUEM!, HUEFS!, RB!) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.378887&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.073889" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.378887/lat -13.073889)">Pico do Gobira</a>, 13 March 2008, fr., A.K.A. Santos et al. 1107 (HUEFS!, UEC-online image!) ; Chapada Diamantina, Pico do Gobira, área encharcada no sopé do morro, 13°04’36”S, 41°22’40”W, 1471 m, 20 January 2015, fl., fr., E.B. Souza et al. 1000 (HUEFS!) .</p><p>Distribution, habitat and phenology:— Apparently endemic to the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil (Appendix 2; Figure 3). It grows in campo rupestre (Fig. 4) with rocky outcrops exposed to full sun at elevations between 1471–1603 m. Collected flowering in January and June, and fruiting in January, March and June.</p><p>Etymology:— The epithet refers to the auriculate calyx lobes that are typical of this species.</p><p>Notes:— Marcetia santosiae is another probable relative that shares with M. auricularia the internodes, leaf abaxial surfaces and hypanthia densely covered with glandular trichomes, as well as leaf blades that are similar in size (7–14 mm long vs. 7–15 mm long, respectively), flowers subtended by a pair of inconspicuous bracteoles, magenta petals and isomorphic stamens. For their differences, see the diagnosis of Marcetia santosiae . Marcetia auricularia also has a distinct distribution restricted to Serra do Gobira and Serra da Batávia. The compared species have never been collected in these localities and sympatric distribution is unlikely (see Appendix 2). For photos of Marcetia nummularia and Marcetia santosiae, see Figures 5A–B, 6, and 7.</p><p>Suggested conservation status:— Critically Endangered (CR): B1ac(iii)+B2ac(iii) (see Appendix 2).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D2D0916A74BFF99FF74FCDB17251E12	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pacifico, Ricardo;Almeda, Frank	Pacifico, Ricardo, Almeda, Frank (2022): New species of Marcetia and Microlicia (Melastomataceae) endemic to the campo rupestre of Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 573 (1): 39-69, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3
5D2D0916A74FFF92FF74F938169B1D6F.text	5D2D0916A74FFF92FF74F938169B1D6F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Marcetia santosiae Almeda & R. B. Pacifico 2022	<div><p>Marcetia santosiae Almeda &amp; R.B.Pacifico, sp. nov. (Figs. 6–7).</p><p>Type:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Abaíra, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.891808&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.289028" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.891808/lat -13.289028)">Distrito of Catolés</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.891808&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.289028" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.891808/lat -13.289028)">Chapada Diamantina</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.891808&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.289028" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.891808/lat -13.289028)">Trail to Pico do Barbado</a>, 13°17’20.5”S, 41°53’30.5”W, 24 May 2019, fl., fr., F. Almeda 10790, R.B. Pacifico, L. Daneu &amp; L.C. Gomes (holotype: HUEM!, isotypes: ALCB!, CAS!, CEPEC!, HUEFS!) .</p><p>Diagnosis:— Differs from Marcetia auricularia by the longer cauline internodes 2–22 mm long (vs. 3–8 mm long), the shorter calyx lobes 3–4 mm long (vs. 5–6 mm long) that are not auriculate (vs. auriculate), shorter petals 5–7 mm long (11–14 mm long), stamen filaments 2.5–3.5 mm long (vs. 8–9 mm long), anthers 1.8–2.2 mm long (vs. 3.5–4.5 mm long), styles 4–5 mm long (vs. 13–15 mm long), and raphal zone covering nearly 40% the length of the seed (vs. ca. 80–90% the length of the seed).</p><p>Erect shrubs 0.4–1 m tall, dichotomously branched. Upper cauline internodes 2–22 mm long, light green (when fresh) or reddish becoming pale brown (when dry) and defoliated with age, quadrangular and sulcate on two of the four opposing faces, densely covered with stout glandular trichomes 0.3–1.1 mm long. Leaves decussate, moderately ascending, not concealing uppermost internodes, chartaceous to coriaceous, slightly discolored (when fresh), adaxial surface vivid green, abaxial surface pale green, both leaf surfaces becoming pale brown or reddish (when dry); petioles up to 0.8 mm long; blades 7–14 × 4–11 mm, ovate, apex rounded or slightly acute, base truncate to cordate, margin entire to inconspicuously crenulate-ciliate with hyaline trichomes up to 0.5 mm long, often flushed with red, narrowly revolute, adaxial surface densely covered with glandular trichomes 0.3–0.9, abaxial surface densely covered with glandular trichomes 0.3–1.1 mm long, the stouter trichomes concentrated on the veins, 9–11-nerved from the base (basal acrodromous), venation prominent on the abaxial surface and impressed on the adaxial surface, secondary venation not evident. Flowers 4-merous on short pedicels up to 0.5 mm long, concentrated at the apex of the branches, bracteolate. Bracteoles 2, inconspicuous, 1.5–2 × 0.4–0.8 mm, narrowly triangular, apex acute, base attenuate, densely covered with glandular trichomes 0.3–1.1 mm long on both surfaces, margin ciliate with similar glandular trichomes, 1-nerved. Hypanthia (at anthesis) 3–4 mm long, 3–4 mm wide at the torus, light green or reddish, campanulate, equaling the capsule in length at maturity, densely covered with stout glandular trichomes 0.3–1.1 mm long. Calyx tube inconspicuous, ca. 0.1 mm long. Calyx lobes 3–4 mm long, 1.5–2.6 mm wide, light green or reddish (when fresh) becoming pale brown (when dry), erect at anthesis, ovate to foliaceous, not auriculate, apex acute, margins entire and ciliate with glandular trichomes 0.3–0.9 mm long, both surfaces covered with glandular trichomes 0.3–0.9 mm long, the indumentum evenly distributed. Petals 5–7 × 6–8 mm, obovate, magenta, the base attenuate, apex obtuse, both surfaces glabrous, margins entire and ciliate with minute gland-tipped trichomes up to 0.4 mm long. Stamens 8, isomorphic, erect and clustered around the base of the style (at anthesis); filaments 2.5–3.5 mm long, white becoming red with age or following pollination, glabrous; anthers 1.8–2.2 × 0.6–0.8 mm, yellow, oblong but somewhat tapering distally, erostrate, pedoconnectives up to 0.2 mm, unappendaged. Ovary (at anthesis) ca. 1.5–1.8 × 1.2–1.4 mm, superior, subglobose, glabrous, 3-locular, 1/5 basally adnate to the hypanthium; style 4–5 mm long, magenta, glabrous, somewhat curved, stigma punctiform. Fruit at maturity a globose loculicidal capsule ca. 4–5 × 4–5 mm, pale brown, glabrous, 3-valvate, enveloping hypanthia, rupturing and flaking away with age. Seeds ca. 0.7 × 0.5 mm, brown, rounded-cochleate, testa tuberculate, raphal zone elliptic, ca. 40% the length of the seed.</p><p>Additional specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Abaíra. Distrito of Catolés, Chapada Diamantina, Trail to Pico do Barbado, 13°17’28.2”S, 41°53’48.9”W, [ca. 1543 m], 24 May 2019, fl., F. Almeda et al. 10782 (CAS!, CEPEC!, HUEM!); Catolés, caminho para a Serra do Barbado, 13°17’S, 41°50’W, 30 April 2006, fl., fr., M.L. Guedes et al. 12389 (ALCB!); Campo de Ouro Fino (baixo), 13°15’S, 41°54’W, 1600–1700 m, 10 January 1992, fl., fr., R.M. Harley et al. H50727 (HUEFS!, K-online image!, NY-online image!, SPF!); Serra do Barbado, 13°18’S, 41°54’W, 1950–2000 m, 12 January 2007, fl., fr., A.K.A. Santos et al. 970 (HUEFS!). Rio de Contas. Trilha para o Campo do Queiroz, 13°30’55.4”S, 41°56’51.7”W, 1410–1470 m, 20 May 1999, fl., fr., F. Almeda et al. 8326 (CAS!, HUFU-online image!, NY!, UEC!); estrada para Pico das Almas, ca. 24.1 km da cidade, 19 November 2000, fl., fr., J.F.A. Baumgratz et al. 742 (CEPEC!, RB!); trilha para o Pico das Almas, próximo ao Campo do Queiroz, 14 February 2012, fl., fr., J.G. Freitas et al. 763 (HUEFS!); caminho para o Pico das Almas, na subida para o Campo do Queiroz, 13°30’52”S, 41°56’54”W, 1502 m, 11 February 2002, fl., fr., R.M. Harley &amp; A.M. Giulietti 54443 (HUEFS!); trilha para o Pico das Almas, 13°30’52.9”S, 41°56’54.6”W, 1382 m, 14 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico et al. 575 (CAS!, HUEFS!, HUEM!, RB!); trilha para o Pico do Itobira, 13°22’38.9”S, 41°53’10.6”W, 1542 m, 16 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico et al. 618 (CAS!, HUEM!, HUEFS!, RB!); Pico das Almas, trilha para o Pico das Almas, 13°30’53”S, 41°56’55”W, 1504 m, 14 February 2012, fl., fr., M.J.R. Rocha et al. 335 (BHCB, RB!); trilha na subida para o Pico das Almas, antes do Campo do Queiroz, 13°31’01”S, 41°55’35”W, 1507 m, 18 January 2003, fl., fr., A.K.A. Santos et al. 27 (HUEFS!, UEC-online image!); trilha para o Pico das Almas, 18 February 2006, fl. fr., A.K.A. Santos et al. 809 (HUEFS!); trilha para o Pico das Almas, 14 February 2012, fl., fr., A.K.A. Santos et al. 1204 (HUEFS!).</p><p>Distribution, habitat and phenology:— Apparently endemic to the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil (Appendix 2; Fig. 3). It grows in campo rupestre (Fig. 4) with rocky outcrops exposed to full sun at elevations between 1382–2000 m. Collected flowering from January to June, and fruiting in November, and from January to June (except March).</p><p>Etymology:— The epithet honors professor Andrea Karla Almeida dos Santos (b. 1979–). Besides leading important field expeditions to the Chapada Diamantina, focused on Melastomataceae, Andrea Karla has described new species of Marcetia (Santos et al. 2008, 2013), authored a checklist for the family in Rio de Contas (Santos &amp; Silva 2005) and the treatment of Marcetia for the Flora of Brazil (Santos 2022).</p><p>Notes:— Marcetia santosiae is also morphologically similar to M. nummularia (Fig. 5 A–B). Both species share a dense indumentum of glandular trichomes on the internodes, abaxial leaf surfaces and hypanthia, as well as triangular calyx lobes and magenta petals. Marcetia santosiae differs by the modally longer leaf blades 7–14 mm long (vs. 6–8 mm long) that are ovate (vs. orbicular to suborbicular) and less markedly revolute, the shorter anthers 1.8–2.2 mm long (vs. 3–4 mm long) and 3-locular ovaries (vs. 4-locular). These species may occur sympatrically in Abaíra and Rio de Contas (Appendices 1–2). There appears to be no overlap in the distributions of M. santosiae and M. auricularia (Appendix 2) (for their distinctions see the diagnosis).</p><p>Suggested conservation status:— Critically Endangered (CR): B1ac(iv) (Appendix 2).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D2D0916A74FFF92FF74F938169B1D6F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pacifico, Ricardo;Almeda, Frank	Pacifico, Ricardo, Almeda, Frank (2022): New species of Marcetia and Microlicia (Melastomataceae) endemic to the campo rupestre of Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 573 (1): 39-69, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3
5D2D0916A742FF90FF74FB6A11F0183B.text	5D2D0916A742FF90FF74FB6A11F0183B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Marcetia unguiculata R. B. Pacifico & Almeda 2022	<div><p>Marcetia unguiculata R.B.Pacifico &amp; Almeda, sp. nov. (Figs. 8–9).</p><p>Type:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Mucugê. Distrito de Guiné, na trilha que sobe para a <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.511665&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-12.756111" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.511665/lat -12.756111)">Serra do Esbarrancado</a>, 12°45’22”S, 41°30’42”W, 1167 m, 1 December 2019, fl., R.M. Harley 58555, A.M. Giulietti, L.T. Carneiro, S.A. Lima &amp; O. Domingo (holotype: HUEFS!) .</p><p>Diagnosis:— Differs from Marcetia alba Ule (1908: 236) by the elliptic leaf blades (vs. deltoid to cordiform) that are eciliate (vs. ciliate with glandular trichomes), calyx lobes triangular (vs. linear), petals with conspicuous claws 1–1.3 mm long (vs. base attenuate, claws absent), stamens with shorter filaments 0.8–1.2 mm long (vs. 2.8–3.2 mm long), and anthers 1–1.5 mm long (vs. 2–3 mm long).</p><p>Erect rupicolous shrub up to 0.5 tall, dichotomously branched. Upper cauline internodes 2–7 mm long, light green (when fresh) becoming pale green (when dry), quadrangular, not sulcate, glabrous or with sparse inconspicuous hyaline trichomes up to 0.2 mm long. Leaves decussate, spreading, not concealing the uppermost internodes, papyraceous, discolored (when fresh), adaxial surface shiny green, abaxial surface pale green, both leaf surfaces becoming pale brown (when dry); petioles 0.7–1 mm long; blades 3.5–6.5 × 2–3 mm, flat, elliptic, apex rounded to acute, base rounded to attenuate, margins entire, eciliate, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface densely covered with inconspicuous hyaline trichomes ca. 0.2 mm long, 5–7-nerved from the base (basal acrodromous), venation prominent on the abaxial surface and impressed on the adaxial surface, secondary venation not evident. Flowers 4-merous on pedicels 2–4 mm long (lengthening to 6 mm long in fruit), concentrated at the apex of the branches, ebracteolate. Hypanthia (at anthesis) 2–2.5 mm long, 1.8–2 mm wide at the torus, reddish, campanulate, equaling the capsule in length at maturity, glabrous. Calyx tube inconspicuous, ca. 0.1 mm long. Calyx lobes 1.8–2.1 mm long, 1.7–2 mm wide at the base, reddish (when fresh) becoming brownish (when dry), patent at anthesis, triangular, apex rounded to acute, margins entire and glabrous, both surfaces glabrous. Petals 4–5 × 4–5 mm (including claw that is up to 1–1.3 mm long), the blade orbicular to slightly reniform, magenta, apex obtuse, both surfaces glabrous, margins entire and beset with minute hyaline trichomes ca. 0.1 mm long. Stamens 8, isomorphic, erect and clustered around the base of the style; filaments 0.8–1.2 mm long, white becoming red with age or following pollination, glabrous; anthers 1–1.5 × 0.3–0.5 mm, yellow, oblong, erostrate, pedoconnectives up to 0.3 mm, unappendaged. Ovary (at anthesis) ca. 1 × 0.8 mm, superior, globose, glabrous, 4-locular, not adnate to the hypanthium; style ca. 2–3 mm long, magenta, glabrous, incurved, stigma punctiform. Fruit at maturity a globose loculicidal capsule 2–3 × 2–3 mm, pale brown, glabrous, 4-valvate, enveloping hypanthia and rupturing and flaking away with age. Seeds ca. 0.8 × 0.3 mm, brown, rounded-cochleate, testa tuberculate, raphal zone elliptic, ca. 40% the length of the seed.</p><p>Additional specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Mucugê, Beco do Guiné no acesso ao Vale do Pati, Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina, Subida da Serra do Esbarrancado, ca. 1300 m, 25 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico et al. 707 (CAS!, HUEM!, RB!); Serra do Esbarrancado, no Topo da Serra, 1300 m, 1 November 2011, fr., fr., R.P. Oliveira et al. 1964 (HUEFS!).</p><p>Distribution, habitat and phenology:— Probably endemic to the campo rupestre of Guiné, Mucugê, Bahia, Brazil (Figs. 3, 4E; Appendix 2). It grows on partially shaded rocky walls at elevations of ca. 1300 m. Collected flowering and fruiting in November, December and June.</p><p>Etymology:— The epithet refers to the unguiculate petals of this species that are markedly narrowed into a petiolelike base.</p><p>Notes:— Marcetia bahiana (Ule 1908: 236) A.B. Martins (1995a: 149) is another species that is morphologically similar to M. unguiculata . Both M. bahiana and M. unguiculata are rupicolous shrubs that grow in shaded sites. They share elongated leaves with the margins ciliate, ebracteolate flowers with pink/magenta petals, isomorphic stamens, and 4-locular ovaries. Marcetia unguiculata differs by the elliptic leaf blades (vs. lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate in M. bahiana) that are 5–7-nerved from the base (vs. 1-nerved), the calyx lacking intercalycine rigid eglandular trichomes (vs. present), calyx lobes triangular 1.8–2.1 mm long (vs. lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm long), unguiculate petals (vs. petals with an attenuate base, claws absent), and shorter stamen filaments 0.8–1.2 mm long (vs. 2.8–3 mm long).</p><p>Marcetia bahiana was long considered as a possibly extinct species (CNCFlora 2022). It was recently rediscovered in Serra do Gobira (R. Pacifico et al. 711, CAS), 116 years after the type specimen was collected by Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule at the Serra do Sincorá (see Ule 1908). In this context, it appears that both M. bahiana and Marcetia unguiculata are endemic to Mucugê. Still, they are known from different localities, i.e., the Serra do Gobira (Fig. 4F) and the Serra do Esbarrancado (Fig. 4E), respectively. The more widely distributed Marcetia alba has also been reported for Mucugê, making sympatric occurrence with M. unguiculata possible (see Appendix 1).</p><p>Suggested conservation status:— Data Deficient (DD) (see Appendix 2).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D2D0916A742FF90FF74FB6A11F0183B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pacifico, Ricardo;Almeda, Frank	Pacifico, Ricardo, Almeda, Frank (2022): New species of Marcetia and Microlicia (Melastomataceae) endemic to the campo rupestre of Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 573 (1): 39-69, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3
5D2D0916A740FF97FF74F95D16B01857.text	5D2D0916A740FF97FF74F95D16B01857.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Microlicia ascendens Almeda & R. B. Pacifico 2022	<div><p>Microlicia ascendens Almeda &amp; R.B.Pacifico, sp. nov. (Figs. 10–11).</p><p>Type:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Rio de Contas, Trilha do Pico do Itobira para o Vale do Mocotó, 13°22’49.9”S, 41°52’55.9”S, 1654 m, 16 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico 634, V.E. Bressan &amp; E.A. Ramos (holotype: HUEM!, isotypes: CAS!, HUEFS!, RB!) .</p><p>Diagnosis:— Differs from Microlicia aurea Wurdack (1983: 124) by the glandular-punctate internodes covered with short gland-tipped trichomes 0.1–0.4 mm long (vs. only glandular-punctate), leaf blades obovate to oblanceolate (vs. elliptic-lanceolate) that are rounded at the apex (vs. bluntly acute), flowers with linear calyx lobes 2.3–2.7 mm long (vs. deltoid, ca. 1.4 mm long), and shorter petals 6.5–8 mm long (vs. 13.4–14 mm long).</p><p>Erect shrubs 1–2 m tall, much-branched. Upper cauline internodes 2–3 mm long, light green, sometimes flushed with red (when fresh) becoming pale green (when dry) and defoliated with age, quadrangular, not sulcate, with narrow wings up to 0.2 mm long, densely glandular-punctate and covered with short gland-tipped trichomes 0.1–0.4 mm long. Leaves decussate, ascending, concealing uppermost internodes (both when fresh and when dry), papyraceous, concolored, light green (when fresh) becoming pale green (when dry); petioles 0.7–1.5 mm long, light green, flattened; blades 6–9 × 1.7–4 mm, obovate to oblanceolate, apex rounded, base attenuate, margins entire, eciliate, both surfaces densely glandular-punctate, 1-nerved from the base, venation prominent on the abaxial surface and impressed on the adaxial surface, secondary venation not evident. Flowers 5-merous, sessile or on inconspicuous pedicels up to 0.5 mm long, apical or axillary, solitary or concentrated at the apex of the branches, ebracteolate. Hypanthia (at anthesis) 3.5–4 mm long, 2.8–3.6 mm wide at the torus, light green (when fresh) becoming pale brown (when dry), campanulate, equaling than the capsule in length at maturity, densely glandular-punctate. Calyx tubes 0.4–0.6 mm long. Calyx lobes 2.3–2.7 mm long (excluding apical trichome), 0.5–0.8 mm wide at the base, light green with a red apex (when fresh) becoming pale brown (when dry), patent at anthesis, linear, apex acute and mucronate, margins entire and glandularpunctate, externally glandular-punctate. Petals 6.5–8 × 3.5–5 mm, obovate, yellow, base attenuate, apex acute, both surfaces glabrous, margins entire and glabrous. Stamens 10, entirely yellow (excepting the white rostra), dimorphic, antesepalous anthers ± horizontal (at anthesis), subparallel and clustered, antepetalous anthers ± erect and clustered near the floral axis; antesepalous (larger) stamens with filaments 3.8–4.2 mm long, glabrous, thecae (excluding rostra) 2.3–2.8 × 0.6–0.8 mm, oblong, corrugated (polysporangiate), rostra 0.4–0.6 mm long, the ventrally inclined pores 0.2–0.3 mm wide, nearly circular, pedoconnectives 5.2–6 mm long, appendages 1.5–1.9 mm long, apex truncate; antepetalous (smaller) stamens with filaments 3.8–4.2 mm long, glabrous, thecae (excluding rostra) 2–2.4 × 0.5–0.7 mm, corrugated (polysporangiate), oblong, rostra 0.2–0.3 mm long, the ventrally inclined pores 0.1–0.2 mm wide, nearly circular, pedoconnectives 2.2–2.7 mm long, appendages 0.4–0.6 mm long, apex truncate. Ovary (at anthesis) 1.8–2 × 1.1–1.4 mm, superior, cylindrical, glabrous, 3-locular, not adnate to the hypanthium; style 6.5–7.5 mm long, yellow, glabrous, sigmoid, stigma punctiform. Fruit at maturity a globose loculicidal capsule 3–3.5 × 3–3.5 mm, pale brown, ovoid, 3-valvate, enveloping hypanthia, rupturing and flaking away with age, dehiscent from the apex to the base (basipetal), columellas deciduous. Seeds ca. 0.8 × 0.4 mm, brownish, oblong, testa foveolate, raphal zone nearly circular, ca. 25% the length of the seed.</p><p>Additional specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Bahia: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.883305&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.370778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.883305/lat -13.370778)">Rio de Contas</a>, trilha para o <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.883305&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.370778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.883305/lat -13.370778)">Pico do Itobira</a>, 13°22’14.8”S, 41°52’59.9”W, 1802 m, 16 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico et al. 623 (CAS!, HUEM!, HUEFS!, RB!) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.884697&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.370639" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.884697/lat -13.370639)">Pico do Itobira</a> e arredores, 13°22’14.3”S 41°53’04.9”W, 1906 m, 16 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico et al. 627 (CAS!, HUEM!, HUEFS!, RB!) ; Arapiranga, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.7525&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.433056" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.7525/lat -13.433056)">Gerais do Porco Gordo</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.7525&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.433056" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.7525/lat -13.433056)">Rio Galinha</a>, 13°25’59”S, 41°45’09”W, 1174 m, 17 June 2022, fr., R. Pacifico et al. 641 (CAS!, HUEM!, RB!) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.884724&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.370833" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.884724/lat -13.370833)">Pico do Itobira</a> [“ <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.884724&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.370833" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.884724/lat -13.370833)">Itoibira</a> ”], 13°22’15”S, 41°53’05”W, [ca. 1870 m], 13 December 2006, fl., fr., A.K.A. Santos et al. 923 (HUEFS!) .</p><p>Distribution, habitat and phenology:— Apparently endemic to the Chapada Diamantina in Rio de Contas (Fig. 12; Appendix 2), where it grows in campo rupestre (Fig. 4) exposed to full sun at elevations between 1174–1870 m. Collected flowering and fruiting in December, May and June.</p><p>Etymology:— The specific epithet refers to the distinctly ascendant leaves of this species.</p><p>Notes:— Besides Microlicia aurea (see diagnosis), another putative relative is M. obovatifolia R.B. Pacifico, Fidanza &amp;Almeda (2017: 45) (Fig. 5C), which shares with M. ascendens the ascendant obovate leaves and flowers with dimorphic stamens. Microlicia ascendens differs from Microlicia obovatifolia by the glandular-punctate internodes covered with short gland-tipped trichomes 0.1–0.4 mm long (vs. only glandular-punctate), leaves with evident petioles 0.7–1.5 mm long (vs. subsessile), flowers with longer calyx lobes 2.3–2.7 mm long (vs. 2–2.2 mm long), yellow petals (vs. magenta) and androecium (vs. yellow and magenta), and longer anthers 2–2.8 mm long (vs. 1.2–1.5 mm long) with polysporangiate thecae (vs. tetrasporangiate). Among the compared species, only Microlicia aurea has been reported for Rio de Contas and might grow sympatrically with M. ascendens . Microlicia obovatifolia is endemic to Serra do Cipó in Minas Gerais state (see Appendix 1).</p><p>Suggested conservation status:— Critically Endangered (CR): B1ac(iv) (see Appendix 2).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D2D0916A740FF97FF74F95D16B01857	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pacifico, Ricardo;Almeda, Frank	Pacifico, Ricardo, Almeda, Frank (2022): New species of Marcetia and Microlicia (Melastomataceae) endemic to the campo rupestre of Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 573 (1): 39-69, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3
5D2D0916A747FF95FF74FA5911E51A03.text	5D2D0916A747FF95FF74FA5911E51A03.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Microlicia barbata R. B. Pacifico & Almeda 2022	<div><p>Microlicia barbata R.B.Pacifico &amp; Almeda, sp. nov. (Figs. 13–14).</p><p>Type:— BRAZIL. Bahia: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.882694&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.3765" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.882694/lat -13.3765)">Rio de Contas</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.882694&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.3765" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.882694/lat -13.3765)">Trilha para o Pico do Itobira</a>, 13°22’35.4”S, 41°52’57.7”W, 1613 m, 16 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico 619, V.E. Bressan &amp; E.A. Ramos (holotype: HUEM!, isotypes: CAS!, HUEFS!, RB!) .</p><p>Diagnosis:— Differs from Microlicia cryptandra Naudin (1845: 175) by the nodes of branches covered with shorter eglandular trichomes 0.5–1.2 mm long (vs. 2–3.5 mm long), shorter triangular calyx lobes 1.6–2 mm long (vs. 2.6–6.5 mm long) that are only glandular-punctate (vs. glandular-punctate and covered with glandular trichomes 0.5–1.5 mm long), petals glabrous on both surfaces (vs. glandular-punctate and/or with trichomes on both surfaces), and by the strongly dimorphic stamens with polysporangiate anthers (vs. subisomorphic stamens, tetrasporangiate anthers).</p><p>Erect shrubs 0.5–1 m tall, much-branched. Upper cauline internodes 2–4 mm long, light green (when fresh) becoming pale green (when dry) and defoliated with age, quadrangular, not sulcate, unwinged, densely glandularpunctate and covered with eglandular trichomes 0.5–1.2 mm long. Leaves decussate, ascending, concealing uppermost internodes (both when fresh and when dry), papyraceous, concolored, light green (when fresh) becoming pale green (when dry), sessile or on inconspicuous petioles up to 0.2 mm long; blades 2.5–4.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, ovate, apex acute, base rounded to slightly cordate, margins slightly serrulate and ciliate with eglandular trichomes 0.5–1.2 mm long, marginal regions recurved, both surfaces densely glandular-punctate and covered with eglandular trichomes 0.5–1.2 mm long, 1-nerved, venation prominent on the abaxial surface and impressed on the adaxial surface, secondary venation not evident. Flowers 5-merous, sessile or on inconspicuous pedicels up to 0.2 mm long, apical, solitary, ebracteolate. Hypanthia (at anthesis) 3.3–3.8 mm long, 2.9–3.2 mm wide at the torus, light green (when fresh) becoming brownish (when dry), campanulate, ± equaling the capsule in length at maturity, densely glandular-punctate covered with vinaceous eglandular trichomes 0.5–1.2 mm long. Calyx tubes 0.2–0.3 mm long. Calyx lobes 1.6–2 mm long (excluding apical trichome), 1.5–1.8 mm wide at the base, light green (when fresh) becoming brownish (when dry), patent at anthesis, triangular, apex acuminate terminating in a vinaceous eglandular trichome 0.4–0.7 mm long, margins entire, eciliate, externally densely glandular-punctate. Petals 8–11 × 6–8 mm, obovate, magenta with a yellow base, the base attenuate, apex acute terminating in an inconspicuous eglandular trichome ca. 0.3 mm long, both surfaces glabrous, margins entire and glabrous to inconspicuously ciliate with minute eglandular trichomes up to 0.3 mm long. Stamens 10, entirely yellow, dimorphic, antesepalous anthers ± horizontal (at anthesis), subparallel and clustered, antepetalous anthers ± erect and clustered near the floral axis; antesepalous (larger) stamens with filaments 4.7–5.1 mm long, glabrous, thecae (excluding rostra) 4.2–4.7 × 0.5–0.8 mm, linear to oblong, corrugate (polysporangiate), rostra 0.3–0.5 mm long, the ventrally inclined pores ca. 0.2 mm wide, nearly circular, pedoconnectives 3–3.5 mm long, the short appendages 0.2–0.3 mm long, apex truncate; antepetalous (smaller) stamens with filaments 2.5–3.5 mm long, glabrous, thecae (excluding rostra) 2.7–3 × 0.5–0.8 mm, oblong, corrugate (polysporangiate), rostra 0.3–0.4 mm long, the ventrally inclined pores ca. 0.2 mm wide, nearly circular, pedoconnectives 1.5–1.9 mm long, the short appendages 0.1–0.3 mm long, apex truncate. Ovary (at anthesis) ca. 2.5 × 1.3 mm, superior, globose, glabrous, 3-locular, not adnate to the hypanthium; style 8–9 mm long, magenta with a yellow base, glabrous, sigmoid, stigma punctiform. Fruit at maturity a subglobose loculicidal capsule ca. 4–4.5 × 2–3 mm, pale brown, ovoid, 3-valvate, enveloping hypanthia, rupturing and flaking away with age, dehiscent from the apex to the base (basipetal), columellas deciduous. Seeds ca. 0.6–0.7 × 0.3 mm, yellow, oblong, testa foveolate, raphal zone nearly circular, ca. 20–30% the length of the seed.</p><p>Additional specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Bahia: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.882694&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.3765" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.882694/lat -13.3765)">Rio de Contas</a>. Trilha para o <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.882694&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.3765" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.882694/lat -13.3765)">Pico do Itobira</a>, 13°22’35.4”S, 41°52’57.7”W, 1613 m, 16 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico et al. 620 (CAS!, HUEM!, HUEFS!, RB!) ; Borda da Mata do Pico Itobira [“ Itoibira ”], 14 February 2006, fl., fr., A.K.A. Santos et al. 927 (HUEFS!) .</p><p>Distribution, habitat and phenology:— Probably endemic to the Serra do Itobira region in Rio de Contas, Bahia, Brazil (Fig 15, Appendix 2). It was collected in campo rupestre (Fig. 4) at 1613 m, exposed to full sun, flowering and fruiting in February and June.</p><p>Etymology:— The epithet refers to the beard-like indumentum on the hypanthia, which is absent on the calyx lobes, and makes this species easily distinguishable from its congeners.</p><p>Notes:— Microlicia barbata differs from Microlicia fasciculata Martius ex Naudin (1845: 180) by the hypanthia that are covered with red eglandular trichomes (vs. white), which are absent on the calyx tube and calyx lobes (vs. present), and linear anthers (vs. oblong) that are longer than those of M. fasciculata in both antesepalous (4.2–4.7 mm long vs. ca. 2.5 mm long, respectively) and antepetalous stamens (2.7–3 mm long vs. ca. 2 mm long). Microlicia comparilis Wurdack (1984: 136) is another putative relative and shares with M. barbata a dense indumentum of glandular trichomes on the branches and both leaf surfaces, ascending 1-nerved leaves, and magenta petals. Microlicia barbata differs by its indumentum composed of longer trichomes 0.5–1.2 mm long (vs. 0.3–0.4 mm long), ovate leaf blades (vs. lanceolate), calyx lobes only glandular-punctate (vs. glandular-punctate and covered with eglandular trichomes), and dimorphic stamens (vs. isomorphic). Microlicia barbata, M. comparilis, and M. fasciculata probably grow together at Rio de Contas. In turn, M. cryptandra (Fig. 5D) is endemic to Goiás (Versiane et al. 2016, Diniz &amp; Silva 2020). We suspect that the distribution of M. cryptandra in Minas Gerais reported by Romero et al. (2022b) was based on H.S. Irwin et al. 24643 (NY). That record is erroneous as this specimen was collected in Chapada dos Veadeiros (Goiás), although it was mistakenly assigned to Minas Gerais state on the label.</p><p>Nomenclatural note:— Romero et al. (2022a) recently proposed the name Microlicia hirsuta (Candolle 1828: 119) R. Romero, Versiane &amp; Woodgyer (2022a: 113) as a new combination based on Microlicia variolosa var. hirsuta Candolle (1828: 119) [= M. fasciculata]. This name is superfluous because “ hirsuta ” is a varietal name and does not have priority outside of its rank. Therefore, here we recognize M. fasciculata as the valid name for this species.</p><p>Suggested conservation status:— Data Deficient (DD; see Appendix 2).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D2D0916A747FF95FF74FA5911E51A03	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pacifico, Ricardo;Almeda, Frank	Pacifico, Ricardo, Almeda, Frank (2022): New species of Marcetia and Microlicia (Melastomataceae) endemic to the campo rupestre of Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 573 (1): 39-69, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3
5D2D0916A75AFF88FF74FBC411E51136.text	5D2D0916A75AFF88FF74FBC411E51136.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Microlicia daneui R. B. Pacifico & Almeda 2022	<div><p>Microlicia daneui R.B.Pacifico &amp; Almeda, sp. nov. (Figs. 16–17).</p><p>Type:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Mucugê, arredores do <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.292&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.308417" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.292/lat -13.308417)">Pico da Batávia</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.292&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.308417" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.292/lat -13.308417)">Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina</a>, 13°18’30.3”S, 41°17’31.2”W, 1603 m, 24 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico 691, V.E. Bressan &amp; L. Daneu (holotype: HUEM!, isotypes: CAS!, HUEFS!, RB!) .</p><p>Diagnosis:—Differs from Microlicia noblickii (Wurdack 1995: 821) A.B.Martins &amp; Almeda in Almeda &amp; Martins (2001: 4) by its leaves on petioles 4–12 mm long (vs. sessile), longer hypanthia 6–8 mm long (vs. 5–5.2 mm long), calyx lobes oblong to triangular 7–9 mm long (vs. deltoid to triangular, 3.5–4 mm long), petals 19–25 mm long (vs. 14– 16 mm long) that are entirely magenta (vs. pink with a yellow base), antepetalous pedoconnectives with appendages 1–1.3 mm long (vs. ca. 0.5 mm long) and ovaries 3–5-locular (vs. 5-locular).</p><p>Erect shrubs 0.5–1.5 m tall, much-branched. Upper cauline internodes 4–7 mm long, light green (when fresh) or reddish, becoming pale brown (when dry) and defoliated with age, obscurely quadrangular to terete, not sulcate, unwinged, densely glandular-punctate and sparsely to densely covered with inconspicuous gland-tipped trichomes 0.1–0.3 mm long, Leaves decussate, ascending, concealing uppermost internodes (when dry), chartaceous to coriaceous, concolored and light green (younger leaves) to vivid green (older leaves when fresh), both leaf surfaces becoming brownish to blackened (when dry); petioles 0.4–1.2 mm long, light green flushed with red (when fresh), rectangular; blades 9–19 × 4–12 mm, narrowly to widely elliptic or slightly obovate, apex rounded or acute, base attenuate, margins entire and glabrous, flat, adaxial surface glandular-punctate to glabrescent, abaxial surface glandular-punctate and covered with inconspicuous gland-tipped trichomes 0.1–0.3 mm long mainly on the veins, eventually becoming glabrescent, 3-nerved from the base (basal acrodromous), venation prominent on the abaxial surface and impressed on the adaxial surface, secondary venation not evident. Flowers 5-merous on short pedicels 0.5–1 mm long, apical, solitary, ebracteolate. Hypanthia (at anthesis) 6–8 mm long, 5–7 mm wide at the torus, light green flushed with red (when fresh) becoming brownish (when dry), campanulate, surpassing the capsule in length at maturity, densely glandular-punctate and sparsely covered with inconspicuous gland-tipped trichomes 0.1–0.3 mm long. Calyx tubes 0.2–0.3 mm long. Calyx lobes 7–8 mm long, 4–5 mm wide at the base, light green flushed with red (when fresh) becoming brownish (when dry), patent at anthesis, oblong to triangular, apex rounded to truncate, margins entire and glabrous to inconspicuously ciliate with gland-tipped trichomes 0.1–0.3 mm long, externally with an indumentum like that of the hypanthia. Petals 19–25 × 14–16 mm, obovate, magenta, the base attenuate, apex acuminate, both surfaces glabrous, margins entire and glabrous. Stamens 10, dimorphic, antesepalous anthers ± horizontal (at anthesis), subparallel and clustered, antepetalous anthers ± erect and clustered near the floral axis; antesepalous (larger) stamens with filaments 7–8 mm long, magenta, glabrous, thecae (excluding rostra) 2.9–3.1 × 0.9–1 mm, yellow becoming brownish after pollination, oblong, slightly corrugate (polysporangiate), rostra 0.7–0.8 mm long, white, the ventrally inclined pores ca. 0.4–0.5 mm wide, nearly circular, pedoconnectives 8–9 mm long, magenta with a yellow apex, appendages 1.4–1.7 mm long, apex emarginate, yellow; antepetalous (smaller) stamens with filaments 6–7 mm long, magenta, glabrous, thecae (excluding rostra) 2.5–2.8 × 0.9–1 mm, yellow becoming brownish after pollination, oblong, slightly corrugated (polysporangiate), rostra 0.6–0.7 mm long, white, the ventrally inclined pores ca. 0.4–0.5 mm wide, nearly circular, pedoconnectives 3–3.5 mm long, magenta with a yellow apex, appendages 1–1.3 mm long, apex emarginate, yellow. Ovary (at anthesis) ca. 4 × 3 mm, superior, subglobose, glabrous, 3–5-locular, adnate to the hypanthium basally for ½ of its length; style 11–12 mm long, magenta, glabrous, sigmoid, stigma punctiform. Fruit at maturity a subglobose loculicidal capsule ca. 5–6 × 5–6 mm, pale brown, glabrous, 3–5-valvate, enveloping hypanthia rupturing and flaking away with age, dehiscent from the apex to the base (basipetal), columellas deciduous. Seeds ca. 1 × 0.5 mm, yellow, oblong, testa foveolate, raphal zone nearly circular, ca. 20–30% the length of the seed.</p><p>Additional specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Mucugê [“Ibicoara”], <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.291943&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.307222" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.291943/lat -13.307222)">Serra da Batávia</a>, 13°18’26”S, 41°17’31”W, 1578 m, 23 June 2012, fl., fr., H.A. Ogasawara et al. 222 (ALCB!, HUFU-online image!) . Mucugê. Arredores do <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.292&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.308417" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.292/lat -13.308417)">Pico da Batávia</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.292&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.308417" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.292/lat -13.308417)">Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina</a>, 13°18’30.3”S, 41°17’31.2”W, 1603 m, 24 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico et al. 690 (CAS!, HUEM!, HUEFS!, RB!) .</p><p>Distribution, habitat and phenology:— Apparently endemic to the campo rupestre of Serra da Batávia in Mucugê, Bahia, Brazil (Fig. 12, Appendix 2). It was collected at elevations of 1578–1603 m, in areas exposed to full sun, flowering and fruiting in June.</p><p>Etymology:— The epithet honors our friend and colleague Lukas Halla Daneu (b. 1983–). During the last decade, Lukas has been a valued field assistant on several botanical expeditions to the interior of Bahia that have resulted in the collection of many new species and a significant increase in the floristic sampling for little-explored regions.</p><p>Notes:— Microlicia daneui seems to be related to Microlicia noblickii (see diagnosis; Fig. 5E) and Microlicia mucugensis Wurdack (1988: 294) Almeda &amp; A.B.Martins (2001: 4) . These two putative relatives have sessile leaves and were initially described in Lavoisiera Candolle (1828: 102) by Wurdack (1988, 1995). Names in Microlicia for both species were later provided by Almeda &amp; Martins (2001).</p><p>Microlicia mucugensis shares with M. daneui the glandular-punctate indumentum on branches, leaves and hypanthia, somewhat elliptic leaf blades that are rigid and become blackened when dry, magenta petals and dimorphic yellow stamens. Microlicia daneui differs by the laxly imbricated leaves (vs. not imbricated) on petioles 0.4–1.2 mm long (vs. sessile), modally longer blades 9–19 mm long (vs. 5–10 mm long), longer hypanthia 6–8 mm long (vs. 4.5– 4.8 mm long), calyx lobes 7–8 mm long (vs. 3.5–4.2 mm long), petals 19–25 mm long (vs. 12–14 mm long), stamens with filaments 6–8 mm long (vs. 4.3–5.5 mm long), and polysporangiate anthers (vs. tetrasporangiate). Microlicia daneui is probably parapatric with the compared species. Both M. noblickii (Fig. 5E) and M. mucugensis have never been reported for Serra da Batávia (Appendix 1).</p><p>Suggested conservation status:— Data Deficient (DD; see Appendix 2).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D2D0916A75AFF88FF74FBC411E51136	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pacifico, Ricardo;Almeda, Frank	Pacifico, Ricardo, Almeda, Frank (2022): New species of Marcetia and Microlicia (Melastomataceae) endemic to the campo rupestre of Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 573 (1): 39-69, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3
5D2D0916A759FF8FFF74FF6917251BE7.text	5D2D0916A759FF8FFF74FF6917251BE7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Microlicia piatensis Almeda & R. B. Pacifico 2022	<div><p>Microlicia piatensis Almeda &amp; R.B.Pacifico, sp. nov. (Figs. 18–19).</p><p>Type:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Piatã, caminho para os <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.90586&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.076889" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.90586/lat -13.076889)">Três Morros</a>, estrada para <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.90586&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.076889" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.90586/lat -13.076889)">Inúbia</a>, 13°04’36.8”S, 41°54’21.1”W, 1376 m, 19 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico 659 &amp; V.E. Bressan (holotype: HUEM!, isotypes: ALCB!, CAS!, HUEFS!, RB!).</p><p>Diagnosis:—Differs from Microlicia sulfurea Hoehne (1922: 22) by the elliptic leaf blades (vs. ovate to lanceolate), anthers oblong (vs. oblong-linear), shorter antesepalous pedoconnectives 1.4–1.9 mm long (vs. 3.8–4.2 mm long), antesepalous appendages 0.5–0.8 mm long that are bilobate at the apex (vs. 1–1.2 mm long, apex truncate), and shorter antepetalous pedoconnectives 0.6–0.9 mm long (vs. 1.5–2 mm long).</p><p>Erect shrubs 0.5–1.5 m tall, much-branched. Upper cauline internodes 1.5–3 mm long, light green (when fresh) becoming pale green (when dry) and defoliated with age, quadrangular, not sulcate, unwinged, densely glandularpunctate. Leaves decussate, ascending, not concealing uppermost internodes (both when fresh and when dry), chartaceous, concolored, light green (when fresh) becoming pale green (when dry); petioles 0.4–0.7 mm long, light green, flattened; blades 2.5–3 × 1–1.5 mm, elliptic, apex rounded, base cuneate, margins entire and glandular-punctate, flat, both surfaces densely glandular-punctate, 1-nerved, venation impressed on both surfaces, secondary venation not evident. Flowers 5(–6)-merous, on short pedicels 0.2–0.4 mm long (these lengthening to 1 mm long in fruit), apical, solitary, ebracteolate. Hypanthia (at anthesis) 2.8–3.1 mm long, 2.2–2.5 mm wide at the torus, light green (when fresh) becoming pale brown in fruit (and when dry), campanulate, equaling the capsule in length at maturity, densely glandular-punctate. Calyx tubes ca. 0.2–0.3 mm long. Calyx lobes 1–1.5 mm long, 1.3–1.7 mm wide at the base, light green (when fresh) becoming pale brown (when dry), nearly erect at anthesis, triangular, apex acute and mucronate, margins entire and glandular-punctate, externally glandular-punctate. Petals 4–5 × 3–4 mm, obovate, yellow, base attenuate, apex truncate, both surfaces glabrous, margins entire and glabrous. Stamens 10(12), entirely yellow, dimorphic, antesepalous anthers ± horizontal (at anthesis), subparallel and clustered, antepetalous anthers ± erect and clustered near the floral axis; antesepalous (larger) stamens with filaments 2–2.5 mm long, glabrous, thecae (excluding rostra) 1.6–1.9 × 0.4–0.5 mm, oblong, corrugate (polysporangiate), rostra 0.2–0.3 mm long, the ventrally inclined pores ca. 0.1 mm wide, nearly circular, pedoconnectives 1.4–1.9 mm long, appendages 0.5–0.8 mm long, apex bilobate; antepetalous (smaller) stamens with filaments 1.5–1.9 mm long, glabrous, thecae (excluding rostra) 1.5–2 × 0.3–0.5 mm, corrugate (polysporangiate), oblong, rostra 0.2–0.3 mm long, the ventrally inclined pores 0.1–0.2 mm wide, nearly circular, pedoconnectives 0.6–0.9 mm long, appendages 0.2–0.3 mm long, apex emarginate. Ovary (at anthesis) ca. 1 × 0.8 mm, superior, subglobose, glabrous, 3-locular, not adnate to the hypanthium; style 4–5 mm long, yellow, glabrous, sigmoid, stigma punctiform. Fruit at maturity a globose loculicidal capsule 1.5–2 × 1.3–1.7 mm, pale brown, ovoid, 3-valvate, enveloping hypanthia and rupturing and flaking away with age, dehiscent from the apex to the base (basipetal), columellas deciduous. Seeds ca. 0.3–0.4 × 0.2 mm, yellow, oblong, testa foveolate, raphal zone nearly circular, ca. 30% the length of the seed.</p><p>Additional specimens examined: BRAZIL. Bahia: Piatã. Serra do Atalho, próximo ao Garimpo da Cravada, 13°07’S, 14°54’W, 1400 m, 21 August 1992, fl., fr., W. Ganev 933 (HUEFS!, SPF!, UEC!, US!); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.880276&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.060834" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.880276/lat -13.060834)">caminho para os Três Morros</a>, 13°03’39”S, 41°52’49”W, 19 September 2004, fl., fr., M.L. Guedes et al. 11236 (ALCB!, MBM!); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.880276&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.060834" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.880276/lat -13.060834)">caminho para os Três Morros</a>, 13°03’39”S, 41°52’49”W, 18 September 2004, fl., fr., M.L. Guedes et al. 11240 (ALCB!, MBM!); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.90586&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.076889" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.90586/lat -13.076889)">caminho para os Três Morros</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.90586&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.076889" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.90586/lat -13.076889)">estrada para Inúbia</a>, 13°04’36.8”S, 41°54’21.1”W, 1376 m, 19 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico 658 &amp; V.E. Bressan (CAS!, HUEM!, HUEFS!, RB!); Chapada Diamantina, Serra de Santana, 2 km de Piatã, 13°07’45”S, 41°46’34”W, 5 December 2003, fl., fr., N. Roque et al. 888 (ALCB!, MBM!).</p><p>Distribution, habitat and phenology:— Probably restricted to the mountains of Piatã, Bahia, Brazil (Fig. 12, Appendix 2). It grows in campo rupestre (Fig. 4) exposed to full sun at elevations between 1350–1400 m. Microlicia piatensis was collected flowering and fruiting in June, August, September and December.</p><p>Etymology:— The specific epithet refers to its distribution which is apparently restricted to Piatã, Bahia, Brazil (Fig. 12).</p><p>Notes:— Besides M. sulfurea (Fig. 5G) and M. prostrata (see diagnoses of M. piatensis and M. prostrata, respectively), Microlicia piatensis is also possibly related to M. parvula (Markgraf 1927:44)Koschnitzke &amp;A.B.Martins (2007: 474) (Fig. 5F). Both M. piatensis and M. parvula have an erect habit, a glandular-punctate indumentum on branches, leaves and hypanthia, somewhat elliptic leaves, triangular calyx lobes, yellow petals, and yellow stamens with polysporangiate thecae. Microlicia piatensis can be differentiated by its leaves with conspicuous petioles 0.4– 0.7 mm long (vs. petioles absent or inconspicuous, up to 0.2 mm long), and dimorphic stamens with conspicuous pedoconnective appendages (vs. isomorphic to subisomorphic, inconspicuous appendages). Among the compared species, only M. parvula apparently grows sympatrically with M. piatensis in Piatã, Bahia (see Appendix 1).</p><p>Suggested conservation status:— Critically Endangered (CR): B1ac(iii)+B2ac(iii) (see Appendix 2).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D2D0916A759FF8FFF74FF6917251BE7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pacifico, Ricardo;Almeda, Frank	Pacifico, Ricardo, Almeda, Frank (2022): New species of Marcetia and Microlicia (Melastomataceae) endemic to the campo rupestre of Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 573 (1): 39-69, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3
5D2D0916A75FFF8DFF74FCD111E31B5B.text	5D2D0916A75FFF8DFF74FCD111E31B5B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Microlicia prostrata R. B. Pacifico & Almeda 2022	<div><p>Microlicia prostrata R.B.Pacifico &amp; Almeda, sp. nov. (Figs. 20–21).</p><p>Type:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Abaíra, Gerais próximas ao <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.905197&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.285418" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.905197/lat -13.285418)">Pico do Elefante</a>, 13°17’07.5”S, 41°54’18.7”W, 1900 m, 18 June 2022, fl.,fr., R. Pacifico 656, V.E. Bressan &amp; E.A. Ramos (holotype: HUEM!, isotypes: CAS!, HUEFS!, RB!) .</p><p>Diagnosis:— Differs from Microlicia piatensis by the decumbent habit up to 0.2 m tall (vs. erect habit 0.5–1.5 m tall), leaf blades obovate to elliptic (vs. elliptic) with the bases attenuate (vs cuneate), and isomorphic stamens (vs. dimorphic) with pedoconnectives unappendaged (vs. with appendages 0.2–0.8 mm long).</p><p>Decumbent shrubs up to 0.2 m tall, dichotomously branched. Upper cauline internodes 0.5–2 mm long, light green (when fresh) becoming pale green (when dry) and defoliated with age, quadrangular, not sulcate, unwinged, densely glandular-punctate. Leaves decussate, ascending, concealing uppermost internodes (both when fresh and when dry), chartaceous, concolored, light green (when fresh) becoming pale green (when dry); petioles 0.3–0.8 mm long, light green, flattened; blades 2.5–3.5 × 1–1.5 mm, obovate to elliptic, apex rounded, base attenuate, margins entire and glandular-punctate, flat, both surfaces densely glandular-punctate, 1-nerved, venation impressed on both surfaces, secondary venation not evident. Flowers 5-merous on short pedicels 0.2–0.4 mm long (equal in length when in fruit), apical, solitary, ebracteolate. Hypanthia (at anthesis) 2.8–3.2 mm long, 2.5–3 mm wide at the torus, light green (when fresh) becoming pale brown in fruit (and when dry), campanulate, equaling the capsule in length at maturity, densely glandular-punctate. Calyx tubes ca. 0.2–0.3 mm long. Calyx lobes 0.6–1.1 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide at the base, light green (when fresh) becoming pale brown (when dry), triangular to linear, apex acute, margins entire and glandular-punctate, externally glandular-punctate. Petals 4.5–5.5 × 3.5–4.5 mm, obovate, yellow, base attenuate, apex acuminate, both surfaces glabrous, margins entire and glabrous. Stamens 10, entirely yellow, isomorphic, erect and clustered around the base of the style; filaments 1–1.4 mm long, glabrous, thecae (excluding rostra) 1.6–1.9 × 0.4–0.5 mm, oblong, smooth (tetrasporangiate), rostra 0.1–0.2 mm long, the ventrally inclined pores ca. 0.1 mm wide, nearly circular, pedoconnectives 0.2–0.4 mm long, unappendaged. Ovary (at anthesis) ca. 1.5 × 1.1 mm, superior, subglobose, glabrous, 3-locular, not adnate to the hypanthium; style 4–5 mm long, yellow, glabrous, sigmoid, stigma punctiform. Fruit at maturity a globose loculicidal capsule ca. 2–2.5 × 1.5–2 mm, pale brown, ovoid, 3-valvate, enveloping hypanthia and rupturing and flaking away with age, dehiscent from the apex to the base (basipetal), columellas deciduous. Seeds ca. 0.3–0.4 × 0.2 mm, yellow, oblong, testa foveolate, raphal zone nearly circular, ca. 30% the length of the seed.</p><p>Additional specimen examined: BRAZIL. Bahia: Abaíra, Gerais próximas ao <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.905197&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.285418" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.905197/lat -13.285418)">Pico do Elefante</a>, 13°17’07.5”S, 41°54’18.7”W, 1900 m, 18 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico et al. 657 (CAS!, HUEM!, HUEFS!, RB!) .</p><p>Distribution, habitat and phenology:— Probably restricted to the Serra do Elefante in Abaíra, Bahia, Brazil (Fig. 15, Appendix 2). Microlicia prostrata was collected in campo rupestre (Fig. 4) at 1900 m elevation, flowering and fruiting in June.</p><p>Etymology:— The epithet refers to the decumbent habit of this species, an atypical feature in the genus.</p><p>Notes:— Microlicia parvula (Fig. 5F) is another putative relative that shares with M. prostrata the glandularpunctate indumentum on the branches, leaves and hypanthia, triangular calyx lobes, yellow petals, and yellow isomorphic stamens (sometimes subisomorphic in M. parvula) with pedoconnectives lacking conspicuous appendages. Microlicia prostrata can be differentiated by its decumbent habit up to 0.2 m tall (vs. erect habit, 0.3–1.5 m tall), leaves with petioles 0.3–0.8 mm long (vs. absent or up to 0.2 mm long), blades essentially obovate (vs. essentially ovate), and stamens with tetrasporangiate thecae (vs. polysporangiate). None of the putative relatives has been collected in the Serra do Elefante, where M. prostrata is apparently endemic (Appendixs 1, 2).</p><p>Suggested conservation status:— Data Deficient (DD; see Appendix 2)</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D2D0916A75FFF8DFF74FCD111E31B5B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pacifico, Ricardo;Almeda, Frank	Pacifico, Ricardo, Almeda, Frank (2022): New species of Marcetia and Microlicia (Melastomataceae) endemic to the campo rupestre of Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 573 (1): 39-69, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3
5D2D0916A75DFF82FF74FD8610F21B3E.text	5D2D0916A75DFF82FF74FD8610F21B3E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Microlicia tetramera Almeda & R. B. Pacifico 2022	<div><p>Microlicia tetramera Almeda &amp; R.B.Pacifico, sp. nov. (Figs. 22–23).</p><p>Type:— BRAZIL. Bahia: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.752556&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.433084" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.752556/lat -13.433084)">Rio de Contas</a>, Arapiranga, Gerais do Porco Gordo, Rio Galinha, 13°25’59.1”S, 41°45’09.2”W, 1174 m, 17 June 2022, fl., fr., R. Pacifico 642, V.E. Bressan &amp; E.A. Ramos (holotype: HUEM!, isotypes: ALCB!, CAS!, HUEFS!, RB!, SPF!) .</p><p>Diagnosis:— Differs from all congeners by its consistently 4-merous flowers (vs. 5–8-, rarely 9–10-merous in the remaining species). It differs from Microlicia juniperina Saint-Hilaire (1833: 373) by the 4-merous flowers (vs. 5- merous), petals yellow (vs. magenta), isomorphic stamens (vs. dimorphic) that are entirely yellow (vs. yellow and magenta), and 2-locular ovaries (vs. 3-locular).</p><p>Erect shrubs 0.6–0.7 m tall, much-branched. Upper cauline internodes 2.5–3.5 mm long, light green (when fresh) becoming pale green (when dry) and defoliated with age, quadrangular, not sulcate, unwinged, glabrous. Leaves decussate, ascending, concealing uppermost internodes (both when fresh and when dry), papyraceous, concolored, vivid green with a reddish apex (when fresh) becoming pale green (when dry), sessile; blades 4–6 × 0.3–0.5 mm, subulate, apex acuminate, terminating in a reddish needle-like trichome 0.2–0.4 mm long, base truncate, margins entire and eciliate, concave-conduplicate, both surfaces glabrous, lacking evident venation. Flowers 4-merous on inconspicuous pedicels 0.1–0.2 mm long, apical, solitary, ebracteolate. Hypanthia (at anthesis) 2.1–2.5 mm long, 1.3– 1.7 mm wide at the torus, light green (when fresh) becoming pale brown in fruit (and when dry), obconical, equaling the capsule in length at maturity, glabrous. Calyx tubes ca. 0.2–0.3 mm long. Calyx lobes (excluding apical trichome) 1.8–2.2 mm long, 1.3–1.5 mm wide at the base, light green (when fresh) becoming pale brown (when dry), patent at anthesis, subulate, apex acuminate, terminating in a reddish needle-like trichome 0.2–0.4 mm long, margins entire and eciliate, externally glabrous. Petals 3.5–4.5 × 2.8–3.2 mm, obovate, yellow, base attenuate, apex acuminate, both surfaces glabrous, margins entire and glabrous. Stamens 8, entirely yellow, isomorphic, erect and clustered around the base of the style (at anthesis); filaments 1.4–1.7 mm long, glabrous, thecae (excluding rostra) 1.2–1.6 × 0.2–0.4 mm, oblong, smooth (tetrasporangiate), rostra 0.1–0.2 mm long, the ventrally inclined pores ca. 0.1 mm wide, nearly circular, pedoconnectives 0.8–1 mm long, the short appendages 0.1–0.2 mm long, apex truncate. Ovary (at anthesis) ca. 1.5 × 0.8–1 mm, superior, subcylindrical, glabrous, 2-locular, not adnate to the hypanthium; style 5–6 mm long, yellow, glabrous, slightly sigmoid, stigma punctiform. Fruit at maturity a globose loculicidal capsule 2–2.5 × 1.4–1.8 mm, pale brown, ovoid, 2-valvate, enveloping hypanthia and rupturing and flaking away with age, dehiscent from the apex to the base (basipetal), columellas deciduous. Seeds ca. 0.3–0.5 × 0.2 mm, yellow, oblong, testa foveolate, raphal zone nearly circular, ca. 25% the length of the seed.</p><p>Additional specimens examined: BRAZIL. Bahia: Rio de Contas, Gerais do Porco Gordo, 1170 m, 16 July 1993, fl., fr., W. Ganev 1873 (HUEFS!, SPF!, UEC-online image!, US!) ; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-41.753056&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-13.442778" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -41.753056/lat -13.442778)">Serra do Porco Gordo</a> / Arapiranga, 13°26’34”S, 41°45’11”W, 1222 m, 17 August 2006, fr., A.K.A. Santos et al. 856 (HUEFS!) ; Arapiranga, Serra do Porco Gordo, 1226 m, 13 December 2006, fr., A.K.A. Santos et al. 915 (HUEFS!) .</p><p>Distribution, habitat and phenology:— Probably endemic to the Serra do Porco Gordo in Arapiranga, Rio de Contas, Bahia, Brazil (Fig. 15, Appendix 2). Microlicia tetramera was collected on rocky outcrops at elevations between 1170–1226 m, exposed to full sun, flowering in June–July and fruiting in June–August and December.</p><p>Etymology:— The epithet refers to the uniformly 4-merous flowers that are typical of this species.</p><p>Notes:— The 4-merous flowers with 2-locular ovaries of Microlicia tetramera are atypical characters in the Lavoisiereae. Microlicia sphagnicola Gleason (1931: 215), a Peruvian endemic, was described as having 4-merous flowers. However, specimens collected after its description by Gleason show that this is a variable character in M. sphagnicola (e.g., a 5-merous flower is shown in Figure 3B in Pacifico et al. 2020b). Therefore, Microlicia tetramera is the only known species of the genus (and in Lavoisiereae) with consistently 4-merous flowers. Although atypical, 2-locular ovaries have been described in species of the Lavoisiera clade of Microlicia (Martins &amp; Almeda 2017) . Microlicia juniperina (Fig. 5H), an endemic of the Serra do Cipó in Minas Gerais, resembles M. tetramera in having glabrescent branchlets, sessile subulate leaves that are concave-conduplicate and glabrescent, and subulate calyx lobes (for their distinctions, see the diagnosis). Another relative is Microlicia flavipetala Versiane &amp; R.Romero in Versiane et al. (2021: 53), a Goiás endemic, from which M. tetramera differs by its non-keeled leaves (vs. keeled), hypanthia smooth and glabrous at the apex (vs. ribbed, covered with a “crown” of trichomes at the apex), 4-merous flowers (vs. 5-merous) with isomorphic stamens (vs. dimorphic), and 2-locular ovaries (vs. 4–5-locular).</p><p>Based on W. Ganev 1873, Microlicia tetramera was cited as “ aff. Microlicia ” in the checklist of Melastomataceae for Rio de Contas, Bahia, Brazil (Santos &amp; Silva 2005).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D2D0916A75DFF82FF74FD8610F21B3E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pacifico, Ricardo;Almeda, Frank	Pacifico, Ricardo, Almeda, Frank (2022): New species of Marcetia and Microlicia (Melastomataceae) endemic to the campo rupestre of Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 573 (1): 39-69, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.3
