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Lectotypification of six names in Phyllantheae Dumort. (Phyllanthaceae)

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As a part of the study of Phyllanthaceae for the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil, as well as the genus Phyllanthus in the flora of Brazil, six lectotypes are proposed for the following Müller Argoviensis accepted binomials: Flueggea schuechiana, Phyllanthus avicularis, P. bahiensis, P. lindbergii, P. minutulus and P. poeppigianus.

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The authors thank the curators of the above mentioned herbaria for making the type images available, as well as the two anonymous reviewers who contributed to the improvement of the manuscript. The first author thanks the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for the postgraduate scholarship, as well as the Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco for their financial support to the research project entitled “Taxonomy, diversity and conservation of Phyllanthaceae in the Northeastern Atlantic Forest, Brazil”.

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    Alícia Marques Torres

  2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, 52171-900, Brazil

    Sarah Maria Athiê-Souza, Rafaela Alves Pereira-Silva & Margareth Ferreira de Sales

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Torres, A.M., Athiê-Souza, S.M., Pereira-Silva, R.A. et al. Lectotypification of six names in Phyllantheae Dumort. (Phyllanthaceae). Kew Bull 77, 233–237 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-022-09999-y

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