A lovely new, and potentially medicinal, species of Copaifera (Detarioideae, Fabaceae) from the Brazilian Cerrado supported by anatomical and morphological data Author Silva, Marcos José Da 0000-0001-9717-5701 Laboratório de Morfologia e Taxonomia Vegetal, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Goiás, CP 131, 74001 - 970, Goiânia, GO, Brazil. & marcos _ agrorural @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9717 - 5701 marcos_agrorural@hotmail.com Author Santos, Igor Soares Dos 0000-0002-6067-8409 Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Chácara Califórnia, CP 131, 74045 - 155, Goiânia, GO, Brazil. & igorsoares @ discente. ufg. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6067 - 8409 igorsoares@discente.ufg.br text Phytotaxa 2022 2022-06-23 552 2 127 150 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.552.2.1 journal article 89732 10.11646/phytotaxa.552.2.1 4d042cb5-e64c-4641-8152-de3d116ddee2 1179-3163 6691024

TABLE 1. Differential characters between Copaifera appendiculata, C. elliptica, C. magnifolia, C. malmei, and C. nana.

Characters			Species
	C. appendiculata	C. elliptica	C. magnifolia	C. malmei	C. nana
Habit	Shrubby	Shrubby	Shrubby	Shrubby	Subshrubby
Leaflets	Glabrous on both	Glabrous on both	Glabrous on both	Indumented on both	Glabrous on both
	surfaces or indumented	surfaces	surfaces	surfaces	surfaces
	along the midrib on the
	abaxial surface
Translucent	Present, little or	Absent or rarely	Present or absent	Absent or poorly	Present,
points on the	conspicuously visible	present		visible	conspicuously
leaflets					visible
Number of	2–4	(3) 4–5	2–4	3–5	2–3(4)
leaflets pairs
Margins of the	Flat	Revolute	Flat	Flat	Flat
leaflets
Panicle size	Smaller or slightly larger	2 × larger than the	2 to 3 × larger than	Equal or slightly	Smaller or slightly
	than the underlying	underlying leaves	the underlying leaves	larger than the	larger than the
	leaves			underlying leaves	underlying leaves
Sepals	Indumented on both	Glabrous on both	Glabrous on both	Glabrous or	Externally glabrous
	surfaces	surfaces	surfaces	indumeted on both	and internally
				surfaces	sericeous
Ovary	Indumented throughout	Glabrous	Glabrous	Indumented along	Indumented along
				the margin	the margin and base
Fruits	Glabrous	Glabrous	Glabrous	Pubescent at margin	Pubescent at margin