Abstract
The new species Pentacalia atrovinosa (Compositae) is described from the Cordillera de Cayapas in northwestern Ecuador. Among other characters, the species is well characterized by its glabrous, fleshy leaves and long-pedunculate capitula with burgundy-colored involucral bracts and ray florets. A detailed taxonomic discussion of similar species is provided, as well as distributional data and illustrations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 225-229 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Brittonia |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023, The New York Botanical Garden.
Funding
We are very grateful to the curators and staff of the herbaria mentioned in the text. Special thanks to Thomas Couvreur (IRD) for useful information, Isaline Henry for the illustration, Cyrille Chatelain for drawing advice, Mathieu Christe for technical assistance, and the two anonymous reviewers for insightful suggestions and comments. The collections were made as part of the Arca de Noé Initiative, supported by the Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de la República del Ecuador (SENESCYT, Arca de Noé Initiative; S.R. Ron and O.Torres–Carvajal, main researchers). We thank the Ministry of the Environment of Ecuador for issuing permit # 012-2017-IC-FLO-DNB/MA.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Ministry of the Environment of Ecuador | 012-2017-IC-FLO-DNB/MA |
| Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de la República del Ecuador | |
| Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación |
Keywords
- Andes
- Asteraceae
- Cotacachi Cayapas Reserve
- Ecuador
- Senecioneae
- taxonomy