Title
A noteworthy new species of Tovomita (Clusiaceae) from Amazonian white sand forests of Peru and Colombia
Date Issued
01 April 2004
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Hammel B.
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Publisher(s)
New York Botanical Garden Press
Abstract
Tovomita calophyllophylla, from white sand forests of the Amazonian lowlands of Colombia and Peru, is described. The species is unique by its leaves and petioles which somewhat resemble those of two other genera of Clusiaceae, Calophyllum and Garcinia.
Start page
132
End page
135
Volume
56
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Ecología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-1842784694
Source
Brittonia
ISSN of the container
0007196X
Sponsor(s)
This research was funded by the Gentry Fellowship awarded by the Missouri Botanical Garden to the first author. Fieldwork was supported by the Biological Diversity of the Peruvian Amazonia project, BIO-DAMAZ, a collaborative project between Peru and Finland, based at the Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana in Iquitos, Peru. The first author is grateful to UNAP, OTS, CONCYTEC, FULBRIGHT and IDEAWILD for providing opportunity training, and assistance. Thanks to Manuel Ahuite and Mauro Ot6rtegui for considerable help in the fieldwork, Ricardo Zgtrate provided useful field comments.
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