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Dyckia gouveiana Leme & O.B.C.Ribeiro

Publ: Phytotaxa 67: 21–23. (2012)

Type: BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: Gouveia, between Gouveia and Presidente Juscelino, BR 259, near the entrance to Camelinho, along a temporary spring, 1233 m elevation, 18° 34’ 38” S 43° 52’ 35” W, 27 November 2010, E. Leme et. al. 8485 (holotype RB).

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Distribution: BRAZIL. Minas Gerais.

Habitat: a typically rupicolous species, growing on shallow accumulated organic substrate on rock outcrops in the Campos Rupestres, ca. 1200 m. Elev.

Etymology: The name chosen for this new species refers to the county of Gouveia, Diamantina Plateau, Minas Gerais State, where it was originally collected.

Dyckia gouveiana