Erythroxylum confertifolium, a new species from Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, Goiás, Brazil, unveiled by morphology and leaf anatomy Author Silva, Marcos José Da Laboratório de Morfologia e Taxonomia Vegetal, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Goiás, CP 131, 74001 - 970, Goiânia, GO, Brazil. Author Santos, Igor Soares Dos Programa de Pós-graduação Biologia Vegetal, Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “ Júlio de Mesquita Filho ”, 18618 - 970, Botucatu, SP, Brazil. text Phytotaxa 2023 2023-06-21 600 2 55 72 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.600.2.1 journal article 53762 10.11646/phytotaxa.600.2.1 54e16c75-caa3-44e3-9b4d-c671318e57ab 1179-3163 8062847

TABLE 1. Morphological comparison of Erythroxylum confertifolium, E. betulaceum, and E. campestre.

Characters	E. confertifolium	E. betulaceum	E. campestre
Leaves in shortened branches	Present	Present	Absent
Base of leaves	Obtuse	Acute, rounded or obtuse	Acute, rounded or cuneate
Apex of leaves	Obtuse	Retuse	Acute, acuminate or rounded
Stipules	3-setulose, unstriated, margin entire	2-setulose, unstriated, margin fimbriate	3-setulose, striated, margin entire
Cataphylls	3-setulose, unstriated	2-setulose, unstriated	3-setulose, striated
Numbers of flowers per faciscle	3–5	1–3	6–12
Pedicel	3–5 mm long	1–3.1 mm long	2–8 mm long
Flowers including pedicel	10–11 mm long	2.5–5 mm long	7–9 mm long
Lobes of the calyx	Glandular-ciliate	Non-ciliate	Non ciliate
Auricles of petals	Erect, entire	Curved, crenulate or erose	Curved, ondulate
Apex of the staminal cup	10-denticulate	Truncate	10-crenulate
Drupe	5–6.7 × 2–3 mm, ovoid	5-10 × 2–4 mm, ellipsoid	7.5–15 × 4–6 mm, ovoid or ellipsoid