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International audience; We provide a quantitative description of the French national herbarium vascular plants collection dataset. Held at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, it currently comprises records for 5,400,000 specimens, representing 90% of the estimated total of specimens. Ninety nine percent of the specimen entries are linked to one or more images and 16% have field-collecting information available. This major botanical collection represents the results of over three centuries of exploration and study. The sources of the collection are global, with a strong representation for France, including overseas territories, and former French colonies. The compilation of this dataset was made possible through numerous national and international projects, the most important of which was linked to the renovation of the herbarium building. The vascular plant collection is actively expanding today, hence the continuous growth exhibited by the dataset, which can be fully accessed through the GBIF portal or the MNHN database portal (available at: https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/search/form). This dataset is a major source of data for systematics, global plants macroecological studies or conservation assessments.

Pararistolochia enricoi Luino, L. Gaut. & Callm., spec. nova (Fig. 2, 3). Typus: Madagascar. Prov. Mahajanga: Melaky Reg., Beanka, partie S, 18��07���22������S 44��33���31������E, 300 m, 30.XI.2012, fl., Gautier, Ranirison, Hanitrarivo & Luino 5886 (holo-: G [G00341650]!; iso-: K!, MO!, P [P00853247]!, TEF!). Species nova quae a congeneris trichomatibus plantae partes omnes praeter caulem lignosum obtegentibus, perianthio bilobo atque foliis papyraceis deciduis perclare distat. Climbing and ground sprawling, deciduous vine or liana. Stems to 15-25 m high, cross section flattened in the central part resulting in an 8-shape, up to 1.5 cm in width; bark of the oldest stems brown-yellow, corky, verrucate. Leaves margins entire; lamina, 4-8 X 3-6 cm, green above, paler below, papery, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces (white indumentum of simple, multicellular trichomes), shape variable, ovate to hastate; base rounded to cordate, auricles well rounded when present, sinus 0.1-1 cm deep or absent; apex rounded to slightly acuminate, sometimes apiculate; primary veins 3-5, prominent beneath, slightly elevated above, pubescent ventrally and dorsally; secondary veins reticulate; petiole slender, 0.9-2.5 cm long, 0.8-1.1 mm wide; young shoots attenuate, densely covered with a golden indumentum. Inflorescences arising from the corky stem, sometimes at ground level, solitary or fasciculate by 2-3, consisting of a 5-7 flowered raceme; rachis up to 20 cm long, with irregularly spaced internodes between 1 and 10 cm long; bracts 1-4 mm long, densely pubescent; pedicels 15-30 mm long. Flowers buds densely covered by a golden indumentum, with two bulgings corresponding to the young utricule and perianth lobes. Mature flowers up to 48 mm long overall, all the parts covered by a white indumentum; perianth tube S-curved, 15(-18) mm long, funnel-shaped, enlarging throughout and constricted below the throat, flaring from 4 mm in diam. above the utricule to up to 10 mm in diam. in its widest part; throat bright sulphur-yellow, pubescent with white 1.5 mm long setae; lobes 2, triangular to well-rounded, sometimes slightly apiculate, purple, 10 mm long, margins outwardly rolled, dark purple; utricle obovoid, externally white, punctuated with small red spots, purple veined, 11 mm long by 6 mm wide; gynostemium 2.7 mm long by 1.6 mm wide, anthers 6, 1.3 mm long, yellow, each consisting of 4 pollen sacs, stigmatic lobes 6, 1.4 mm long, green, with a short, subconical, sharp apical appendage; ovary cylindrical, 6-ribbed, densely covered by a white indument, 10 to 14 mm long. Fruits pendulous, cucumber-like, curved-cylindrical, indehiscent, woody, prominently 6-ribbed, to 5.5 cm long by 2.8 cm wide, yellow and pubescent when immature, brown and sparsely pubescent when mature. Seeds stacked in 6 simple rows, heart-shaped convex and rough above, concave and smooth below, 4 mm long by 4 mm wide. Etymology. ��� The species is named in honour of the first author���s brother Enrico Luino who died in 2003 at the age of 21. Enrico triggered in him the passion for tropical botany. Distribution and ecology. ��� Pararistolochia enricoi is only known from the eroded limestone formations (���Tsingy��� in Malagasy) of Beanka in western Madagascar (Fig. 1). Its ecology seems to be strongly related to the climax deciduous forest type, where it grows in shaded conditions. According to the collection period, anthesis takes place in November and fruits ripen between December and January. The plants presenting only young leaves at the moment of the flowering collection, we conclude that, given the papery texture and the thin lamina of the fruiting sample, the species is deciduous and that leaves are absent during the dry season, generally from May to October. The plant-insect interactions of Pararistolochia enricoi are still unknown. In western and southern Madagascar the monospecific butterfly genus Pharmacophagus antenor (Drury, 1773) (the only representative of the tribe Troidini in Madagascar) is known to be monophagous on Aristolochia albida (Parsons, 1996b). As documented by Parsons (1996a), the larvae of the troidine papilionid butterflies of the Australasian genus Ornithoptera feed primarily on Pararistolochia in the Australasian region. Considering the overlapping distributions of P. enricoi and Pharmacophagus antenor together with the known feeding habits of the latter, one could hypothesiZe that P. antenor larvae also feed on Pararistolochia enricoi. Conservation status. ��� Pararistolochia enricoi is known only from two locations within a proposed protected area with temporary protection (Beanka). The new species is restricted to karstic limestone, an area with no evident human caused damage or alteration. Even if it currently has a very restricted range, the new species is probably under little if any threat, and is here assigned a preliminary status of Least Concern [LC]. Notes. ��� Pararistolochia enricoi is the second species within the family Aristolochiaceae in Madagascar. It can only be compared with Aristolochia albida Duch. but several characters clearly discriminate the new species. Pararistolochia enricoi differs from Aristolochia albida, also present in Beanka, by its habit (a woody liana up to 16 m long vs. a smaller, non-woody vine), the 8-shaped cross-section of the stem (vs. circular cross-section), the presence of indumentum on most parts (vs. glabrous), the S-shaped perianth tube with two subequal lobes (vs. straight tube with a single lobe) and the indehiscent cucumber-like fruit (vs. dehiscent basket-like fruit) (Fig. 2, 3). Furthermore, Pararistolochia enricoi is the only deciduous species of the genus and the first to be recogniZed in Madagascar. We have discussed in the introduction the reason why we consider Pararistolochia as a distinct genus from Aristolochia. However, it should be noted that even among Pararistolochia, our species has the very striking feature of a bilobed corolla (instead of a tri-lobed corolla in all other species in the genus). Hopefully molecular investigations will further confirm its generic affinities. Paratypi. ��� Madagascar. Prov. Mahajanga: Beanka, partie centrale, 17��56���53������S 44��28���57������E, 190 m, 11.II.2012, fr., Rakotozafy, Bolliger & Hanitrarivo 40 (G, TEF) ; ibid. loc., 18��01���46���S 44��30���18���E, 260 m, 4.XI.2015, fl., Luino 116 (G, K, MO, P, TEF); ibid. loc., 18��01���46���S 44��30���18���E, 260 m, 15.XI.2015, fl., Luino 247 (G, K, MO, P, TEF); ibid. loc., 2.XII.2015, y. fr., Luino 248 (G, K, MO, P, TEF)., Published as part of Iacopo Luino, Martin W. Callmander, Odile Poncy, Simona Da-Giau & Laurent Gautier, 2016, A new Pararistolochia Hutch. & Dalziel (Aristolochiaceae) from the Beanka Tsingy (western Madagascar), pp. 135-141 in Candollea 71 (1) on pages 136-140, DOI: 10.15553/c2016v711a16, http://zenodo.org/record/192863, {"references":["Harper, G. J., M. K. Steininger, C. J. Tucker, D. Juhn & F. Hawkins (2007). Fifty years of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar. Environ. Conserv. 34: 325 - 333.","Parsons, M. J. (1996 b). The immature stages of Pharmacophagus antenor (Drury) (Papilionidae: Troidini) from Madagascar. J. Lepid. Soc. 50: 337 - 344.","Parsons, M. J. (1996 a). New species of Aristolochia and Pararistolochia (Aristolochiaceae) from Australia and New Guinea. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 120: 199 - 238."]}

Se describe Vochysia sofiae recolectada en la región de st. georges, guayana Francesa. constituye la novena especie de la sección Pachyantha Stafleu (Vochysiaceae). Vochysia sofiae es bastante parecida a V. pinkusii, pero se pueden diferenciar por el tamaño de las hojas, el número de venas laterales primarias, las vénulas por el envés, el ápice de las yemas florales adultas, la pubescencia del estambre y de los estaminodios. Vochysia sofiae, collected in st. georges region, French guiana, is described and illustrated. it is the ninth species of section Pachyantha Stafleu (Vochysiaceae). Vochysia sofiae is quite similar to V. pinkusii a. c. sm., but they can be distinguished by the size of the leaves, the number of main lateral veins, the veinlets on the lower side, the apex of adult flower buds and the pubescence of the stamen and staminodes. 174 - 180 lmarcanoberti@gmail.com poncy@mnhn.fr Anual

Streptocarpus betsiliensis Humbert in Adansonia ser. 2, 7: 289. 1967. ��� Colpogyne betsiliensis (Humbert) B. L. Burtt in Humbert, Fl. Madagascar Comores 180: 148. 1971. Typus: MADAGASCAR. Prov. Fianarantsoa: Mt Analamamy, Perrier de la B��thie 12482A (holo-: P [P00088746]!; iso-: P [P00088748]!). Distribution and ecology. ��� Streptocarpus betsiliensis, S. ibityensis and S. lanatus form an intriguing triplet, not only because of their taxonomic history, but of their morphology, and distribution. Geographically S. lanatus occurs in very close sympatry with S. betsiliensis on Mt. Itremo, and both are absent from Mt. Ibity, where S. ibityensis occurs. This is very interesting to note, because S. itremensis B. L. Burtt, a close relative of the three species mentioned above, occurs in both places. Whether S. betsiliensis is absent on Mt. Ibity, or overlooked, would be interesting to study further, as the area between the two mountains ranges has not been explored extensively so far. In their natural environments plants of the triplet often occupy spaces under rocks or in deep crevices in very dark environments. Occupying these marginal ecological niches may have been enabled by the ability to enlarge one of their cotyledons from a basal meristem (a characteristic which is recorded for other species of Streptocarpus: BURTT, 1970; JONG & BURTT, 1975), which are raised into the path of better light, probably to maximize light capture in these marginal habitats. Conservation Status. ��� Streptocarpus betsiliensis occurs on the Itremo massif with countless individuals present under many rocks and in crevices (MM, pers. obs.). The species is restricted to the Itremo massif and has an ���Extent of Occurrence��� (EOO) of 1,150 km 2, an ���Area of Occupancy��� (AOO) of 63 km 2 and with seven known sub-populations (four occurring in the proposed Protected Area of Itremo) (calculated following CALLMANDER et al., 2007), S. betsiliensis is provisionally assessed as ���Vulnerable��� [VU B1ab(i, iii)+ B2ab(i, iii)] following IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (IUCN, 2012) given the restricted range of the species and the current temporary protection of the Itremo massif, but the threat to the species will certainly increase if the temporary protection is removed., Published as part of M��ller, Michael, Nishii, Kanae, Callmander, Martin W., Phillipson, Peter B. & Poncy, Odile, 2015, Rearranging specimens on herbarium type sheets of Streptocarpus betsiliensis Humbert (Gesneriaceae), pp. 145-150 in Candollea 70 (1) on page 149, DOI: 10.15553/c2015v701a12, http://zenodo.org/record/5720899, {"references":["HUMBERT, H. (1971). Gesneriacees. In: LEROY, J. - F. (ed.), Fl. Madagascar Comores 180.","BURTT, B. L. (1970). Studies in the Gesneriaceae of the Old World XXXI. Some aspects of functional evolution. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 30: 1 - 10.","JONG, K. & B. L. BURTT (1975). The evolution of morphological novelty exemplified in the growth patterns of some Gesneriaceae. New Phytol. 75: 297 - 311.","CALLMANDER, M. W., G. E. SCHATZ, P. P. LOWRY II, M. O. LAIVAO, J. RAHARIMAMPIONONA, S. ANDRIAMBOLOLONERA, T. RAMINO- SOA & T. K. CONSIGLIO (2007). Identification of priority areas for plant conservation in Madagascar using IUCN Red List criteria: rare and threatened Pandanaceae indicate sites in need of protection. Oryx 41: 168 - 176.","IUCN (2012). IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3. 1. 2 nd edition. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Gland & Cambridge."]}

Poncy, Odile (2007): A new species of Inga Mill. (Fabaceae, Mimosoideae) from the Guianas. Adansonia (3) 29 (2): 249-254, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5187453, {"references":["PENNINGTON T. D. 1997. - The Genus Inga, Botany. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 844 p.","PONCY O. 1985. - Le genre Inga (Legumineuses, Mimosoideae) en Guyane francaise. Systematique, morphologie des formes juveniles, ecologie. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, ser. B, botanique 31: 1-124, 11 pls."]}

Poncy, Odile, Offroy, Bérangère (2006): Une nouvelle espèce de Tovomita Aubl. (Clusiaceae) de Guyane française. Adansonia (3) 28 (1): 113-117, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4601786, {"references":["CUELLO N. 1998. - Tovomita (Clusiaceae), in BERRY P. E., HOLST B. K. & YATSKIEVYCH K. (eds), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, vol. 4. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St Louis: 313-322.","CUELLO N. 1999. - Two new distinctively large-leaved species of Tovomita (Clusiaceae) from the Venezuelan and Peruvian Amazonian region. Novon 9: 150-152.","CUELLO N. 2003. - A new species of Tovomita (Clusiaceae) from Amazonian Venezuela and Peru. Novon 13: 34-36.","GARCIA- VILLACORTA R. & HAMMEL B. E. 2004. - A noteworthy new species of Tovomita (Clusiaceae) from Amazonian white sand forests of Peru and Colombia. Brittonia 56 (2): 132-135.","HOLLOWELL T., BERRY P. B., FUNK V. & KELLOFF C. 2001. - Preliminary Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield. Site internet http://www.mnh.si.edu/ biodiversity/bdg/guishld."]}