Title
Drymaria veliziae (Caryophyllaceae), a new species from the Andes of Cajamarca (North Peru)
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Iberico-Vela G.
Sanchez-Vega I.
Publisher(s)
Pensoft Publishers
Abstract
A new species from the Northern Peruvian Andes (Cajamarca department), Drymaria veliziae sp. nov., is proposed in the present paper. It grows in the high-elevation montane grasslands and it is morphologically similar to D. auriculipetala from which it differs in having elliptic-ovate leaves, blade margin bases glandular, large number of stipules arranged in a pedicel form at the leaf axis and by the short and glandular pedicels. A detailed description, original photographs and a location map are provided, as well as an updated diagnostic key of Drymaria Ser. Frutescens. The IUCN status of the new species is assessed as Endangered (EN).
Volume
140
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Horticultura, Viticultura
Biorremediación, Biotecnologías de diagnóstico en la gestión ambiental
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85081545746
Source
PhytoKeys
ISSN of the container
13142011
Sponsor(s)
The first author (DBM-T) is grateful to J.S. Ingham (Oxfordshire, UK) for logistic support in the visit to CPUN herbarium (Cajamarca, Peru) which led to the encounter of the novelty while making a revision of the Caryophyllaceae specimens stored there. The second author (CT) is thankful to the Proyecto Páramo Andino, implemented by CONDESAN and the Universiteit van Amsterdam for their financial support to carry out the fieldwork that led to this collection. Thanks also to E. Cabrera (Cajamarca, Peru) and C. Aguilar (Cajamarca, Peru) for their assistance in the collection and to V. Campos (Herbario Nacional de Cajamarca, Cajamarca, Peru) for his help in the Herbarium of Cajamarca. We are also grateful to J. Duivenvoorden (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and A. Cleef from the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for their supervision, support and advice during the project in which the species was collected. We finally thank M. Way and A. Di Sacco (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK) for providing the magnified lens and L. Hudson (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK) and K. Zevallos (Arequipa, Peru) for their help with the editing of pictures.
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