Title
Four New Species of Dragon's Blood Croton (Euphorbiaceae) from South America
Date Issued
2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
American Society of Plant Taxonomists Inc.
Abstract
We describe and illustrate four new species of dragon's blood trees (Croton sect. Cyclostigma) from western South America. Three of the species, Croton beckii from Bolivia and Peru, C. camposii fromPeru, and C. santamartensis fromColombia, grow inmontane Andean forest,whereas C. tumbesinus occurs in dry forest of the Tumbes/Piura ecoregion of western Ecuador and Peru. The characters that place them in Croton sect. Cyclostigma include the arborescent habit, the presence of reddish to yellowish latex, an indument of stellate trichomes, conspicuous and persistent stipules, acropetiolar/basilaminar nectary glands, and terminal inflorescences with bisexual cymules at the base. These new species give additional support for the Andean region being the main center of diversity of this Neotropical Croton clade, as well as being a region whose biodiversity knowledge is still incomplete. © 2018 by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
Start page
212
End page
220
Volume
43
Issue
1
Number
4
Language
English
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85048070028
Source
Systematic Botany
ISSN of the container
0363-6445
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgments. We are grateful to the staff of the above-mentioned herbaria for allowing us to examine specimens from their collections. Christine Niezgoda (F) and Alfredo F. Fuentes (LPB) kindly sent us specimen images. We are grateful to Otavio M. L. da Silva for assistance with the QGIS software. ACF was supported by a CNPq research grant and the Programa de Capacitação Institucional (MPEG/ MCTIC). MIOR was supported by a mobilization scholarship from the National Fund for Scientific Development, Technological and Technological Innovation-FONDECYT, CONCYTEC (Lima, Peru), for a two-month internship at the RJB-CSIC in 2017. RR received support from the Synthesys Programme (GBTAF-2834). Three reviewers and the editors provided valuable comments and suggestions to improve earlier versions of this manuscript.
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