Title
Dicliptera mercedesiae, a new species of the genus Dicliptera (Acanthaceae) from Peru
Date Issued
31 August 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Magnolia Press
Abstract
Dicliptera mercedesiae (Acanthaceae: Justicieae), a new species is described and illustrated from the Junin region of Peru. The new species is similar to Dicliptera purpurascens, but differs by its subsessile flowers, smaller elliptic cymules bracts and corolla without resupination.
Start page
36
End page
44
Volume
518
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Conservación de la Biodiversidad
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85114163115
Source
Phytotaxa
ISSN of the container
11793155
Sponsor(s)
Great thanks to John Wood and Tom Daniel for clarifying queries on Dicliptera. Furthermore, thanks to the curators and staff of the herbaria visited and especially MOL. The first author is grateful to Grace Bravo, Katherine Zevallos and Gonzalo Ch?vez for their accompany in the field. This work has been funded by ?Instituto Nacional de Innovaci?n Agraria? (011-2016 INIA-PNIA-UPMSI-IE). Also, some field trips were made possible under the project DINAFOR of the Herbarium MOL (woody plants collection) of the ?Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina?. Finally, many thanks to Mily Valle for the detailed and complete illustration.
Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria
Sources of information:
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