taxonID	type	description	language	source
4C4F3279FFF7BC611BCFFBC7AFA0BF2E.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: Rio Preto, Serra Negra, Burro de Ouro [approx. - 21.970, - 43.889], 26 February 2006, Viana & Mota 1976 (holotype CEN [00069660]!, isotype CESJ!). Figs. 1, 3.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF7BC611BCFFBC7AFA0BF2E.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — Cuphea dryadica resembles C. pseudovaccinium Saint-Hilaire (1833: 102), both classified in C. sect. Euandra subsect. Hilariella, but differs mainly by the leaves with shorter petioles, 0.5 – 1 mm long, hyphodromous, with slightly marked secondary veins, larger floral tubes, 10 – 12 mm long, covered by sparse glandular trichomes, <0.5 mm long, on the veins, glabrous between them, and by the two dorsalmost short stamens glabrous versus leaves with longer petioles, 1 – 4 mm long, pinnately-veined, abaxial surface prominently reticulate, lateral nerves 5 – 8, floral tubes shorter, 7 – 9 mm long, covered with short, white eglandular trichomes, and short glandular trichomes, <1 mm long, purple, and the two dorsalmost short stamens villous.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF7BC611BCFFBC7AFA0BF2E.taxon	description	Description: — Subshrubs 50 – 100 cm tall; xylopodium absent; stems erect, indumentum pubescent, white eglandular trichomes, <0.2 mm long, mixed with sparse glandular trichomes, ca. 0.3 mm long; internodes 0.5 – 2.5 cm long. Leaves opposite, rarely subalternate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, petioles 0.5 – 1 mm long, blades 6 – 19 × 3 – 8 mm, elliptic, narrowly ovate to narrowly obovate, apex acute to obtuse, rarely slightly apiculate, base acute to obtuse, margin plane to revolute, glandular-ciliate and sparsely strigose, blades glabrous, sometimes slightly pubescent on the base of main vein in adaxial surface, and sparse glandular trichomes on main vein on abaxial surface; hyphodromous, secondary veins slightly marked, primary veins prominent on the abaxial surface. Racemes frondose to frondosebracteose, compound; bracts similar to leaves. Flowers alternate; pedicels 3 – 4 mm long, interpetiolar, rarely axillary; bracteoles 0.7 – 0.9 × 0.6 – 0.7 mm, broadly ovate to elliptic; floral tubes 10 – 12 × 2.5 – 3 mm; spur ca. 2 mm long, obtuse, horizontal to deflexed; outer surface purplish in dorsal region, greenish ventrally, glandular trichomes sparse, <0.5 mm long, on the veins, glabrous between them, base of the tube slightly pubescent; inner surface villous behind the stamens, pilose to villous on the dorsal veins, rarely pilose on the veins of the lower portion of the tube; petals magenta, purple to lilac, ca. 6.5 × 3.2 mm, elliptic; stamens alternately unequal, the 3 antesepalous glabrescent, the two dorsalmost short stamens glabrous, the others villous; vesicles absent, or 6, elongate; pistil 9.5 – 10 mm long; ovary ca. 3 mm long, glabrous; style ca. 6.5 mm long, glabrous; ovules 3; nectary ca. 1.3 × 1.2 mm, deflexed. Seeds 2.5 – 2.9 × 2.4 – 2.8 mm, suborbicular to broadly obovate, apex truncate to obtuse, base obtuse to rounded, margin obtuse to thickened.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF7BC611BCFFBC7AFA0BF2E.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat: — Brazil, in the extreme south of the state of Minas Gerais (Fig. 3); “ campo rupestre ”, and “ campo de altitude ”; 930 – 1470 m elev.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF7BC611BCFFBC7AFA0BF2E.taxon	conservation	Conservation status: — Cuphea dryadica was categorized as Critically Endangered (CR) B 1 ab (i, ii, iii), with EOO estimates of 64 km ² and AOO of 16 km ². The species is represented by four collections, three of which located in Serra Negra da Mantiqueira State Park, created in 2018 (Decree with Special Numbering 301, July 04, 2018). Historically, the region has been impacted by anthropogenic fires, pastures for cattle breeding, mining, logging, and Eucalyptus plantations (Martinelli & Moraes 2013; Salimena et al. 2013). The fourth record, in the municipality of Lima Duarte, is not included in a protection area.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF7BC611BCFFBC7AFA0BF2E.taxon	biology_ecology	Phenology: — Collected with flowers and fruits in November and February.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF7BC611BCFFBC7AFA0BF2E.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The specific epithet is a reference to the Brazilian Phytogeographic Province “ Dryades ”, the name of the tree nymphs in Greek mythology used by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1840 – 1869) to designate the region that roughly corresponds to the current circumscription of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, where the new species is endemic.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF7BC611BCFFBC7AFA0BF2E.taxon	materials_examined	Paratypes: — BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: Lima Duarte, Vilarejo Mogol [- 21.745, - 43.844], 23 November 2001, Araújo & Valente 157 (CEN!, CESJ); Rio Preto, Serra da Caveira D’anta, Faz. da Tiririca [- 21.981, - 43.936], 15 November 2003, Salimena-Pires et al. 1145 (CEN!); Rio Preto, Faz. da Tiririca, entre o Rio Preto e Olaria, 21 ° 58 ’ 03 ” S, 43 ° 56 ’ 08 ” W, 23 February 2004, Salimena-Pires et al. 1233 (CEN!).	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF7BC611BCFFBC7AFA0BF2E.taxon	discussion	Notes and taxonomic affinities: — Cuphea dryadica occurs restrictedly in the extreme south of the state of Minas Gerais (Fig. 3) (“ Zona da Mata ”), Brazil, in the Serra da Mantiqueira complex (Mantiqueira Meridional), in “ campos rupestres ” and “ campos de altitude ” under the Atlantic Rainforest domain. Collections are concentrated within the Serra Negra da Mantiqueira State Park, in the municipality of Rio Preto. A single collection is located about 25 km north of Serra Negra, in the municipality of Lima Duarte, near the Ibitipoca State Park. Cuphea dryadica is morphologically similar to C. pseudovaccinium, both classified in C. sect. Euandra subsect. Hilariella. Cuphea pseudovaccinium is distributed mainly in the Meridional block of the Serra do Espinhaço (central region of the state of Minas Gerais), in “ campos rupestres ” on sandy soil, with which it is compared in the diagnosis.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF2BC661BCFFF6FAF27BAAA.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: Itacambira, estradinha para o morro da torre repetidora, 17 ° 04 ’ 47 ” S, 43 ° 16 ’ 35 ” W, 1326 m, 05 February 2015, Cavalcanti, Vieira, Brauner, Pereira-Silva & Moreira 3908 (holotype CEN [00088652]!, isotypes BHCB!, K!, MO!, RB!, SPF!). Figs. 2, 3.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF2BC661BCFFF6FAF27BAAA.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — Cuphea venosa resembles C. pseudovaccinium, from C. sect. Euandra subsect. Hilariella, and C. rubrovirens Cavalcanti (1989: 71), from C. sect. Melvilla (Anderson ex Rafinesque 1838: 102) Koehne (1874), but differs mainly by the presence of xylopodium (versus absent in C. pseudovaccinium and C. rubrovirens), broadly ovate to orbicular leaves (versus narrowly ovate, ovate, to ovate-oblong in C. pseudovaccinium), covered with onearmed cystolithic appressed trichomes, slightly pubescent veins, sometimes glandular trichomes on the main vein on the abaxial surface (versus blades nearly glabrous, one-armed trichomes appressed to erect, sometimes with sessile and inconspicuous glands, in C. pseudovaccinium), flowers with pedicels 1.5 – 2 mm long (versus 2 – 6 mm long in C. pseudovaccinium), floral tubes 7 – 8 mm long, outer surface vinaceous on the dorsal region, greenish ventrally (versus floral tubes 13 – 15 mm long, outer surface green or yellow-green, apex ventrally bright red in C. rubrovirens), petals dark pink to magenta (versus bright red or red with dark purple apex in C. rubrovirens), pistils 4.5 – 6.5 mm long (versus 6 – 8 mm long in C. pseudovaccinium), and seeds 2 – 2.2 × 2.2 – 2.4 mm (versus 2.5 – 3 × 2.5 – 3 mm in C. rubrovirens).	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF2BC661BCFFF6FAF27BAAA.taxon	description	Description: — Subshrubs to shrubs 1 – 1.5 m tall; xylopodium present; stems erect, indumentum pubescent, eglandular trichomes white, erect, dense, <0.5 mm long, mixed with sparse glandular trichomes, purplish to greenish, <1 mm long, sometimes absent; internodes 0.5 – 2 cm long. Leaves opposite, rarely subalternate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, petioles 1 – 2 mm long, blades 8 – 15 × 5 – 11 mm, broadly ovate to orbicular, apex acute to rounded, slightly apiculate, base cuneate to rounded, margin plane to subrevolute, glandular-ciliate and strigose, indumentum strigose on both surfaces, one-armed cystolithic appressed trichomes, slightly pubescent veins, sometimes glandular trichomes on the main vein on the abaxial surface; brochidodromous, primary and secondary veins prominent on abaxial surface. Racemes frondose to frondose-bracteose, compound; bracts similar to leaves. Flowers alternate; pedicels 1.5 – 2 mm long, interpetiolar, rarely axillary; bracteoles 0.7 – 0.8 × 0.6 – 0.8 mm, broadly ovate; floral tubes 7 – 8 × 2 – 2.5 mm; spur ca. 1 mm long, obtuse, horizontal; outer surface vinaceous in the dorsal region, greenish ventrally, puberulous, white eglandular trichomes, ca. 0.1 mm long, and sparce glandular trichomes 0.5 – 0.6 mm long, on the veins; inner surface villous behind and below the stamens, mainly on the veins; petals dark pink to magenta, two dorsal 3 – 4.5 × 1.3 – 1.8 mm, narrowly obovate, four ventral 3.5 – 5 × 1.5 – 2 mm, narrowly obovate to elliptic; stamens alternately unequal, the 3 antesepalous glabrous, the two dorsalmost short stamens villous, the others villous; vesicles absent; pistil 4.5 – 6.5 mm long.; ovary 2 – 3 mm long, glabrous; style 2 – 3.5 mm long, glabrous; ovules 3; nectary 0.6 – 0.7 × 0.6 – 0.8 mm, deflexed. Seeds 2, 2 – 2.2 × 2.2 – 2.4 mm, broadly obovate, apex rounded to truncate, base cuneate, margin obtuse to slightly thickened.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF2BC661BCFFF6FAF27BAAA.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat: — Brazil, northern Minas Gerais state (Fig. 3); “ campo rupestre ”, on rocky outcrops surrounded by wet grassland; 1326 – 1383 m elev.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF2BC661BCFFF6FAF27BAAA.taxon	conservation	Conservation status: — Cuphea venosa was categorized as Critically Endangered (CR) B 1 ab (ii, iii), with EOO estimates of 2.8 km ² and AOO of 12 km ². It is represented by three collections, around the city of Itacambira. The region is impacted by Eucalyptus plantations, pasture management with the introduction of exotic grasses, and the increased frequency of fires (Martinelli & Moraes 2013).	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF2BC661BCFFF6FAF27BAAA.taxon	biology_ecology	Phenology: — Collected with flowers and fruits in February and April.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF2BC661BCFFF6FAF27BAAA.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The specific epithet refers to the primary and secondary veins that are clearly visible and prominent on the abaxial surface of the leaves.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF2BC661BCFFF6FAF27BAAA.taxon	materials_examined	Paratypes: — BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: Itacambira, 7 km de Itacambira a leste da cidade, na estrada para Montes Claros, 29 November 1984, Stannard et al. CFCR 6546 (CEN!, SPF!); Itacambira, estrada Itacambira-Montes Claros, 4 km de Itacambira, subindo a chapada, 17 ° 04 ’ 09 ” S, 43 ° 20 ’ 00 ” W, 30 April 1997, Cavalcanti et al. 2331 (CEN!, MO!).	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
4C4F3279FFF2BC661BCFFF6FAF27BAAA.taxon	discussion	Notes and taxonomic affinities: — Cuphea venosa is described here from three specimens collected in the municipality of Itacambira, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in “ campos rupestres ”, located in the south of Espinhaço Septentrional. Cuphea venosa is morphologically similar to C. pseudovaccinium, from C. sect. Euandra subsect. Hilariella, which occurs in the southernmost block, in the Espinhaço Meridional, and to C. rubrovirens, from C. sect. Melvilla, sympatric in the Itacambira (Graham 2019). These species are compared with C. venosa in the diagnosis.	en	Facco, Marlon Garlet, Cavalcanti, Taciana Barbosa (2022): Novelties in Cuphea (Lythraceae) from Serra do Espinhaço and Serra da Mantiqueira, and a key to the species from Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Phytotaxa 568 (3): 267-276, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.3.3
