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A new species of Melanotopelia (Graphidaceae) from Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2009
Abstract
Melanotopelia africana is described as new to science from Rwanda (continental Africa) and La Réunion (Mascarenes archipelago). Topeliopsis muscigena is here reported for the first time from La Réunion.
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