Pouzolzia saxophila sp. nov. (Urticaceae tribe Boehmerieae) from Bahia, Brazil.

Abstract

• The paper supplements a taxonomic revision of the New World species of by Wilmot‐Dear and Friis in 1996 and a supplement in 2011 with an additional new species. Here another new species of Friis, Wilmot‐Dear & A. K. Monro, is described from a restricted area of xerophytic scrub vegetation on rocky outcrops in the Boa Nova National Park, Bahia, Brazil. The new species is somewhat similar to , a Mexican endemic, and to from the Brazil–Paraguay border, but also to the widespread Asiatic . However, the similarities with these species are probably due to adaptation to similar dry habitats on rocky outcrops.