PhytoKeys 169: 75–98 (2020) A peer-reviewed open-access journal doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.169.57626 RESEARch ARTIclE https://phytokeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Hidden biodiversity of Amazonian white-sand ecosystems: two distinctive new species of Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae) from Pará, Brazil Paulo Minatel Gonella1,2, Rafael Gomes Barbosa-Silva3,4, Andreas S. Fleischmann5, Daniela C. Zappi3,6, Paulo Cesar Baleeiro7, Caroline Oliveira Andrino3,4 1 Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Departamento de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas, Campus Sete Lagoas, Rodovia MG-424, km 47, Sete Lagoas, MG, 35701-970, Brazil 2 Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica, Av. José Ruschi, 4, Santa Teresa, ES, 29500-000, Brazil 3 Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Rua Boaventura da Silva 955, Nazaré, 66055-090, Belém, PA, Brazil 4 Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coord. Botânica, Av. Perimetral 1901, 66077-830, Belém, PA, Brazil 5 Botanische Staatssammlung München, Menzinger Strasse 67, D-80638, Munich, Germany 6 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil 7 University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia Corresponding author: Paulo Minatel Gonella (
[email protected]) Academic editor: E. Fischer | Received 14 August 2020 | Accepted 6 October 2020 | Published 4 December 2020 Citation: Gonella PM, Barbosa-Silva RG, Fleischmann AS, Zappi DC, Baleeiro PC, Andrino CO (2020) Hidden biodiversity of Amazonian white-sand ecosystems: two distinctive new species of Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae) from Pará, Brazil. PhytoKeys 169: 75–98. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.169.57626 Abstract As deforestation and fire move forward over pristine vegetation in the Amazon, many species remain undiscovered and may be threatened with extinction before being described.