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A synoptic account of the genus Hypoestes (Acanthaceae) in Angola is presented, including a key to the four species known from the country. The new species Hypoestes ecbolioides I. Darbysh. is described and illustrated from southwest Angola and its affinities and conservation status are discussed.
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I would like to thank the following curators and research staff for allowing me access to work on the herbarium collections at their institutions: Jacek Wajer and Jonathan Gregson (BM), Maria Romeiras and Maria Cristina Duarte (LISC), Esperança da Costa (LUAI) and Andreas Fleischmann and Hans-Joachim Esser (M). I am grateful to Jeneen Hadj-Hammou for checking the Hypoestes holdings at LISC on my behalf during a research visit which was supported by the Krukoff Fund. I thank de Beers Angola Prospecting Ltd. for providing logistic support during my 2013 visit to Angola, during which I was able to visit the LUAI herbarium. Juliet Beentje is thanked for providing the detailed illustration of Hypoestes ecbolioides and Erin Tripp and Roger Polhill are thanked for allowing me use of their photographs of Hypoestes species in the field.
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Darbyshire, I. The genus Hypoestes (Acanthaceae) in Angola. Kew Bull 70, 44 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-015-9595-4
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