New occurrence of prestonia bahiensis müll. Arg. (apocynaceae) for the vegetation of the state university of maranhão, brazil
International Journal of Development Research
New occurrence of prestonia bahiensis müll. Arg. (apocynaceae) for the vegetation of the state university of maranhão, brazil
Received 24th December, 2018; Received in revised form 28th January, 2019; Accepted 26th February, 2019; Published online 31st March, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Janilde de Melo Nascimento et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The study records the first occurrence of Prestonia bahiensis Müll. Arg., for the State of Maranhão/Brazil vegetation. Prestonia bahiensis is an endemic species and native of Brazil, with distribution restricts to Northeast and Southeast region. Are provided diagnosis, taxonomic comments, data about occurrence of environmental, geographical distribution and images of the species. With addiction of new records are known three species of Prestonia for the State of Maranhão: P. bahiensis, P. coalita (Vell.) Woodson and P. erecta (Malme) J. F. Morales. Thus, the study contributed for the knowledge of species and of the genus for the Maranhão and Brazil.
