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	American Journal of Botany, 75, 6, June, 1988 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abstract: Alvimia is a new genus of climbing bamboo that occurs in a relatively small area of restinga of coastal Bahia, Brazil.
		It is easily distinguished from other genera of the New World by a combination of several features: fleshy fruits, flowers with two stamens arranged in pseudospikelets, and the climbing habit.
		The Brazilian Alvimia, Mexican Olmeca, and one Peruvian species of Guadua are the only bamboos from America with fleshy fruits, a feature also found in a few Asiatic bamboos such as Dinochloa, Melocalamus, Melocanna, and Ochlandra.
	www.botany.org /ajb/00029122_di001884.php (3396 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Bahia coastal forests (NT0103)
		Bahia Bahia coastal forests have been given highest priority for biodiversity conservation because they harbor an extraordinary number of endemic species of vascular plants (Prance 1987), birds (Haffer 1987), primates (Mendes 1999), and butterflies (Brown Jr.1987).
		Endemic species include three genera of legumes (Brodriguesia, Arapatiella, and Harleyodendron), four genera of bambusoid grasses (Atractantha, Anomochloa, Alvimia, and Sucrea), seven species of Inga, and the important piaçava palm, Atalea funifera (Thomas et al.
		Recent plant surveys in two protected areas (Una and Serra Grande Biological Reserves) found that 41 to 44 percent of vascular plant species are endemic to Atlantic forest and that 26 to 28 percent are endemic to the ecoregion (Thomas et al.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0103_full.html (1108 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA12, Atlantic Moist Forest of Southern Bahia, Brazil
		General scientific research is still revealing very large numbers of species new to science or known from only a few collections.
		Striking endemics from the broad region include three genera of legumes - Brodriguesia, Arapatiella, Harleyodendron; a genus of composites - Santosia; and four genera of bambusoid grasses - Atractantha, Anomochloa, Alvimia, Sucrea.
		At the species level, the number of endemics is very high; some of the notable plants include at least two species of Hornschuchia (Annonaceae); Couepia longipetiolata, Hirtella parviunguis, H.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa12.htm (2147 words)

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