Summary
The three sections of this paper report on i) new species, ii) new records for the Flora Zambesiaca region and for Mozambique and iii) expansion of distributions of species previously thought to be endemic to particular mountains. Specimens have been collected from three mountains in north-central Mozambique visited during a collecting programme from 2006 to 2008 investigating the conservation value of the biodiversity of currently unprotected areas. Three new species: Crotalaria namuliensis, Isoglossa namuliensis and Helixanthera schizocalyx are described. Five taxa not previously recorded from the Flora Zambesiaca region are here recorded as new records for the region and 31 taxa are listed from Mozambique for the first time, including five taxa previously thought to be Malawi mountain endemics. The number of range extensions recorded from these Mozambican mountains is evidence of the paucity of specimens collected from this part of Mozambique and shows the need for continued collection in order to clarify the distributions of this region’s rarest species.
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The inflorescence in I. milanjiensis can be branched; the bracts subtending these branches are often larger and more prominently acuminate.
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The authors would like to thank Dr David Goyder and Dr Jonathan Timberlake for their comments on the ms. and Melanie Wilmot-Dear for some of the Latin diagnoses. We thank Juliet Beentje for the illustrations. We thank the Mozambique Agricultural Research Institute (IIAM), especially Tereza Alves and Camila de Sousa.
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Harris, T., Darbyshire, I. & Polhill, R. New species and range extensions from Mt Namuli, Mt Mabu and Mt Chiperone in northern Mozambique. Kew Bull 66, 241–251 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-011-9277-9
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