“…Among the taxonomic studies that have contributed to the knowledge of Neotropical Malpighiaceae, those from Anderson, C. (1989Anderson, C. ( , 1995Anderson, C. ( , 1997Anderson, C. ( , 2007 and Anderson, W. (1982Anderson, W. ( , 1987Anderson, W. ( , 1990Anderson, W. ( , 1993Anderson, W. ( , 1995aAnderson, W. ( , 1997Anderson, W. ( , 1999Anderson, W. ( , 2001Anderson, W. ( , 2007 should be highlighted. In Brazil, there are several studies regarding this family from Mamede (1981Mamede ( , 1984Mamede ( , 1987, Amorim (1994Amorim ( , 2003, Sebastiani (2010), Sebastiani & Mamede (2010), Alexandrino et al (2011);Francener et al (2015), Almeida & Mamede (2014, 2016, Almeida (2015Almeida ( , 2016Almeida ( , 2017, Alves & Sebastiani (2015), Sebastiani et al (2015), Almeida et al (2013Almeida et al ( , 2016aAlmeida et al ( , 2016bAlmeida et al ( , 2017aAlmeida et al ( , 2017b, Almeida & Amorim (2014a, 2014b, 2015a, 2015b, Amorim & Almeida (2015), Almeida & Hall (2016), and Almeida & Pellegrini (2016). For Northeastern Brazil, floristic studies were elaborated for the Malpighiaceae from...…”