Calolisianthus pedunculatus ( Chamisso & Schlechtendal 1826: 199 ) Gilg (1895: 100)

Tanajura, Jéssica Leão Barbosa, Pinho, Carolina Santos, Silva, Rilquer Mascarenhas Da & Carvalho, Maria Luiza Silveira De, 2021, Integrative assessment of the floristic diversity of Gentianaceae in an area of campo rupestre of the Espinhaço Range in the state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil, Phytotaxa 500 (2), pp. 61-94 : 71

Calolisianthus pedunculatus ( Chamisso & Schlechtendal 1826: 199) Gilg (1895: 100) Fig. 3A .

Herbs, ca. 1 m tall. Branches green, cylindrical, costate. Leaves opposite, sessile, concolorous, blades ca. 4.5 × 2.6 cm, narrow-elliptic, subcoriaceous, glabrous, attenuated at base, acute at apex, entire at margin. Inflorescence in terminal cymes, 11-flowered, peduncle ca. 5 cm. Flowers homostylous, 5-merous, pedicel ca. 3.5 cm; calyx ca. 1.2 × 0.5 cm, green, not winged, not keeled, glabrous, tubular; corolla reddish, hypocrateriform, tube ca. 4 cm, lobes ca. 0.5 cm, lanceolate, at apex acuminate; stamens 2.2–3 cm, heterodynamous, adnate, conation 5 mm, anthers dorsifixed; ovary ca. 8 × 3 mm, style ca. 2.4 cm, stigma bilobed. Fruit septifragal capsule.

Habitat and distribution:— Calolisianthus pedunculatus is found in regions of “campo rupestre” and Cerrado from Santa Catarina to the Bahia portion of the ER, with confirmed occurrences for the states of Bahia, Goiás, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina (Calió 2009, Calió et al. 2015) ( Fig. 3A , Appendix 1) .

Comments:—This species can be readily recognized by the reddish corolla and the fistulous branches ( Siqueira et al. 2014). Can be collected with flowers and fruits all year round (Calió 2009, Siqueira et al. 2014).

Specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Mucugê, Saída para Boiadeiro, 1 June 2017, fl. & fr ., M.L.S. Carvalho et al. 495 ( ALCB!); Trilha do Tiburtino , 18 June 2018, fl ., M.L.S. Carvalho 582 ( ALCB!) .

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FIGURE 3. Species of Gentianaceae from the Parque Municipal de Mucugê - Projeto Sempre Viva (PMM), Bahia, Brazil: Calolisianthus pedunculatus (A), Chelonanthus purpurascens (B), Curtia verticillaris (C), Curtia tenuifolia (D), Prepusa montana (E), Schultesia bahiensis (F), Schultesia crenuliflora (G), Schultesia pachyphylla (H). Scale bars:A: 2 cm; B: 1 cm; C: 0,5 cm; D: 0,5 cm; E: 2 cm; F–H: 1 cm. Photo A, B, E, F, G and H by Maria Luiza Silveira de Carvalho; C and D by Vinicius Dittrich and Gustavo Shimizu, respectively.