New occurrences of schizaeaceae for the maranhão and brazilian cerrado
International Journal of Development Research
New occurrences of schizaeaceae for the maranhão and brazilian cerrado
Received 03rd January, 2019; Received in revised form 26th February, 2019; Accepted 10th March, 2019; Published online 29th April, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Domingos Lucas dos Santos-Silva 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 record three species of Schizaeaceae (Schizaea elegans (Vahl) Sw., Schizaeae stricta Lellinger and Actinostachys Pennula (Sw.) Hook), distributed in two genera (Actinostachys and Schizaea). Schizaea elegans is considered a new record for Maranhão and Schizaeae stricta a new record for the Brazilian Cerrado. It presents a taxonomic key for the species, photographs based on collected material, life-form data, occurrence environments, geographic distribution and additional comments on ecology and delimitation of species.
