New species and range extensions from Mt Namuli,Mt Mabu and Mt Chiperone in northern Mozambique |
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Authors: | T Harris I Darbyshire R Polhill |
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Affiliation: | (1) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, UK |
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Abstract: | The three sections of this paper report on i) new species, ii) new records for the Flora Zambesiaca region and for Mozambique and iii) expansion of distributions of species previously thought to be endemic to particular mountains.
Specimens have been collected from three mountains in north-central Mozambique visited during a collecting programme from
2006 to 2008 investigating the conservation value of the biodiversity of currently unprotected areas. Three new species: Crotalaria namuliensis, Isoglossa namuliensis and Helixanthera schizocalyx are described. Five taxa not previously recorded from the Flora Zambesiaca region are here recorded as new records for the region and 31 taxa are listed from Mozambique for the first time, including
five taxa previously thought to be Malawi mountain endemics. The number of range extensions recorded from these Mozambican
mountains is evidence of the paucity of specimens collected from this part of Mozambique and shows the need for continued
collection in order to clarify the distributions of this region’s rarest species. |
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