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Xysmalobium samoritourei (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae), a new species from the Guinea Highlands of West Africa

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Xysmalobium samoritourei Goyder (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) is described from the highlands of Sierra Leone and Guinea (Conakry) and illustrated. Its conservation status is assessed.

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Acknowledgements

I am most grateful to Margaret Tebbs for the illustration; to Maria Vorontsova and Melanie Wilmot-Dear for the Latin diagnosis; and to Martin Cheek for the conservation assessment.

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Goyder, D.J. Xysmalobium samoritourei (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae), a new species from the Guinea Highlands of West Africa. Kew Bull 63, 473–475 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-008-9059-1

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