Eriotheca paganuccii (Bombacoideae, Malvaceae), a new endangered species from montane forests in the Atlantic Forest of Bahia, northeastern Brazil Author Carvalho-Sobrinho, Jefferson 0000-0003-3605-0707 Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco – UNIVASF, Colegiado de Ciências Biológicas, Petrolina, Pernambuco, 56300 - 990, Brazil & Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco – UFRPE, Departamento de Biologia, Recife, Pernambuco, 52171 - 900, Brazil Author da Mota, Aline C. 0000-0002-8440-1420 Universidade de Pernambuco – UPE, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Recife, Pernambuco, 50100 - 130, Brazil Author Dorr, Laurence J. 0000-0001-7157-363X Department of Botany, MRC- 166, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, D. C. 20013 - 7012, USA text PhytoKeys 2024 2024-06-27 243 215 230 journal article 299038 10.3897/phytokeys.243.125708 416d19a6-2421-4709-b3bd-5deafa0e4d19 PMC11224664 38974889

Table 1. Comparison of Eriotheca paganuccii to morphologically similar species in the state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil.

Trait	E. alversonii	E. macrophylla	E. obcordata	E. paganuccii
Buttresses	present	present	absent	absent
Outline of scales on leaves	unknown	regular outline (Duarte 2010)	regular outline (Duarte 2010)	irregular outline (Duarte 2010)
Glands on receptacle	absent	present	absent	present, rarely absent
Bracteoles	caducous	caducous	often persistent	caducous
Flower bud shape	oblong	widely-elliptic	oblong	oblanceolate
Calyx dimensions (mm)	3–4 × 3–5	5–6 × 7–9	5 × 5	7 × 7–9
Calyx apex	truncate to crenulate	crenate to crenulate	truncate	inconspicuously to shortly 5 - lobed
Petal dimensions (mm)	15–23 × 3–6	30 × 10–12	21–25 × 7	23–26 × 4–6
Number of stamens	c. 70	c. 140	c. 80	c. 80
Staminal tube length (mm)	4–5	4 × 3.5	5–6 × 1.5–1.7	7 × 4
Fruit kapok	abundant	abundant	abundant	scanty
Fruit length (mm)	15–21	38–60	28–60	35–50 (– 70, when fresh)
Fruit shape	globose to subglobose	obovoid to subglobose	obovoid	globose to subglobose
Seed length (mm)	c. 5	c. 10	c. 5	(11 –) 14 (– 19)
Seed number per fruit	numerous	numerous	numerous	c. 10
Flowering period	July to September	October to December	November to April	September (very young flower buds); December
Fruiting period	August to October, December to February	December to February	February	October (very young fruits); December to February