Three new species of Acalypha L. (Euphorbiaceae, Acalyphoideae) from Tanzania and Angola and their conservation status
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Montero-Muñoz I, Cardiel JM, Villaescusa-González L, Muñoz-Rodríguez P (2025) Three new species of Acalypha L. (Euphorbiaceae, Acalyphoideae) from Tanzania and Angola and their conservation status. PLoS One 20(10): e0332588. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0332588
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We describe Acalypha brevipetiolata and A. bracteolata from Tanzania, and A. linearis from Angola, as species new to science. We provide illustrations, distribution maps, and preliminary conservation assessments. We discuss their significance in the context of both countries and within the framework of an ongoing taxonomic monograph of the genus in Africa. These are the first new Acalypha species described in Africa in nearly two decades, in Tanzania in five decades, and in Angola in over a century.
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The authors are grateful for the financial support provided by the research project PID2022-139634NA-I00M funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UE. PMR was supported by a Ramón y Cajal research contract, grant ref. RYC2021-032489-I, funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, and IMM by a Juan de la Cierva – Formación-2021, grant ref. FJC2021-046607-I, funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR during the work on this project. There was no additional external funding received for this study.