Title
Platycarpum vriesendorpiae sp. nov., a second new species of Tribe Henriquezieae (Rubiaceae) from nutrient-poor soils in the Peruvian Amazon
Date Issued
01 June 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Univ. Estadual de Campinas
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Abstract
The new species Platycarpum vriesendorpiae N. Dávila (Rubiaceae, Henriquezieae) is described from Peru, where it is restricted to white-sand forests and peatlands in the Tapiche and Blanco River watersheds in southeastern Loreto Region. The new species is generally similar to P. acreanum Rogers of western Brazil in its phyllotaxy, leaf pubescence, and fruit shape and size. However, P. vriesendorpiae differs in its triangular stipules that are 2- or 3-angled at the base and in its smaller corolla.
Volume
36
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85049580816
Source
Nordic Journal of Botany
ISSN of the container
0107055X
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgments – We thank Klei Souza for the illustration. We also thank the Missouri Botanical Garden for the use of facilities to carry out the Scanning Electronic Microscopy; the curators of the MO and F herbaria for arranging loans; the Elizabeth Bascom fellowship for the grant for the first author to visit the MO; The Field Museum and especially their Rapid Inventories program for support for the first author; and The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for funding the Matsés and Tapiche-Blanco inventories. We give a special thanks to the botanists on those inventories: R. Foster, N. Pitman, M. Ríos, T. Mori, L. Torres, P. Fine, I. Mesones, and C. Vriesendorp. We are grateful to R. Foster, T. Mori, M. Ríos and T. Torres for use of their photographs. Funding – We are grateful to CNPq and CAPES for providing a PhD scholarship to the first author.
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