Title
Vochysia condorensis (Vochysiaceae), a new species from the cordillera del cóndor, Ecuador
Date Issued
21 February 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Magnolia Press
Abstract
Vochysia condorensis is described and illustrated as a new species from the Cordillera del Cóndor region of southeastern Ecuador, where it occurs exclusively on plateaus of quartzitic sandstone of the Hollín Formation and adjacent slopes. The species is placed in Vochysia section Ciliantha subsection Megalanthae and is compared with its most closely related congeners within the subsection: V. duquei and V. gigantea.
Start page
79
End page
85
Volume
340
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85044068967
Source
Phytotaxa
ISSN of the container
11793155
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to thank Ronald Liesner for facilitating access to specimens at the Missouri Botanical Garden that were the result of collecting projects focused on the Cordillera del Cóndor, and Alba Arbeláez for illustrating the new species. The first author thanks Robin Foster for sponsoring his visit to the Field Museum and the Missouri Botanical Garden, and Tyana Wachter and Juliana Philipp for logistic support during his visit to the USA. We thank Olga Martha Montiel for providing logistic support at the MO herbarium, Rosa Ortiz, John Pruski, and Moises Vega for their assistance at MO, and Elsa Toapanta for helping us review specimens at the QCNE herbarium. Daniel Villarroel Segarra, Gustavo Shimizu, Nigel Pitman and Nancy Hensold offered valuable edits and commentary on the manuscript. The second author thanks the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador for the research permits for the botanical inventories in the region over 15+ years of fieldwork, the indigenous Shuar communities of Kuankus, Yunkumas, and Warints, in Morona-Santiago, for permission to carry out floristic inventories in their forests, and Lundin Gold, Inc. and Cardno Entrix, Inc. for facilitating the floristic inventories in the Fruta del Norte mining concession, in Zamora-Chinchipe.
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