Title
Passiflora nana, A new Species in Passiflora Section Decaloba (Passifloraceae) from Northern Peru
Date Issued
16 April 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Macdougal J.M.
Publisher(s)
Magnolia Press
Abstract
A new species of Passiflora L. endemic to cloud forest in northern Peru, P. nana, is described and illustrated from living and herbarium material. The new species is similar to the Colombian P. erythrophylla in flower and Ecuadorian P. hirtiflora in vestiture. The indument is pilose to hispidulous throughout with long straight white trichomes, and the plant is short, less than 2.5 m long, with a very small flower ca. 1.5 cm diam. It is placed in subgenus Decaloba supersection Decaloba section Decaloba.
Start page
159
End page
166
Volume
439
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85091118883
Source
Phytotaxa
ISSN of the container
11793155
Sponsor(s)
Our gratitude goes to the Rimarachín Mena family, for having welcomed the author Esquerre-Ibañez in their home in the forest of Cerro Parcos, San José de Lourdes, and especially to Edwal Rimarachín for the invitation to visit his coffee farm, where the species was found and photographed. We are indebted to José R. Campos for searching for duplicate specimens in the San Marcos herbarium (USM) that could have been designated as types, to Roy Gereau for generously providing the Latin translation of the diagnosis, to Sara Cogburn for her amazing and tireless efforts volunteering in the curation and data entry of Passiflora, and to colleagues Peter Jørgensen and Ron Liesner for providing unfailing support and lively discussions over the years. Thanks are extended to the curators of the following herbaria, who loaned their material for study: BM, COL, HUA, HUT, JAUM, K, MO, P, QCNE, US, and USM. We appreciate the suggestions made by anonymous reviewers that improved the manuscript. This research was done at the herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) supported by a National Science Foundation grant to Harris-Stowe State University and MO, no. DEB-0717115, to study Passiflora subgenus Decaloba. The trip to San José de Lourdes was self-financed (Esquerre-Ibañez), and the collections there have been made with the permission from SERFOR by Resolution No. 247-2016-SERFOR / DGGSPFFS.
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