Tovomita

Perspectives for Tovomita View in CoL

The recent contributions to the taxonomy of Tovomita brought to light many new species for the genus (a complete list of names published in Tovomita can be seen in Table 3). These new taxa were discovered during field expeditions or in visits to smaller herbaria, most of them in Brazil. This shows the importance of continuing this study through taxonomic treatments and local floras carried out in other countries, where, certainly, there will be more new taxa to be discovered. Ondo & al. (2024) argue that more than 15 % of all vascular plant species may remain scientifically undescribed, especially in regions considered as “darkspots”, such as Colombia and Peru. Taxonomic treatments carried out by residents will clarify the morphological variations of Tovomita species and shed new light on what was still unresolved in this review.