A new species and a new combination in Phaeostemma (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae, Gonolobinae).

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Herbarium, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7612, U.S.A.

Published: February 2014

Phaeostemma surinamensis Morillo & Krings, sp. nov., anew species of Apocynaceae (Asclepiadoideae, Gonolobinae) is described and illustrated, and the new combination Phaeostemma fucata (Woodson) Morillo & Krings, comb. nov., is made. The new species, known only from a lowland wet forest of Suriname, seems to be closely related to Phaeostemma fucata, which is an endemic to Ptari-tepui, a sandstone mountain in the southeastern edge of the Venezuelan Guayana.

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