MAGNOLIA LOZANOI (MAGNOLIA SUBSECT. DUGANDIODENDRON, MAGNOLIACEAE) REDISCOVERED ON ECUADORIAN “TEPUIS” IN RESERVA BIOLÓGICA EL QUIMI, CORDILLERA DEL CÓNDOR: CRITICALLY ENDANGERED BY OPEN-PIT MINING: Critically endangered by open-pit mining

Álvaro J. Pérez, Claes Persson, Nicolás Zapata, Brock Mashburn, J. Antonio Vázquezgarcía*

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Abstract

Magnolia lozanoi is rediscovered 26 years after being collected for the first time. Herbarium specimens were collected by Al Gentry in 1993 and formally described by Antonio Vázquez and Ernesto Castro in 2012. This species is known only from El Quimi Biological Reserve in the province of Morona-Santiago, southeastern Ecuador. An emended description, distribution map and the first photographs of this species are provided. Additionally, its relationships with other species are discussed. Its conservation status is proposed as critically endangered (CR) according to IUCN criteria.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)255-262
Number of pages8
JournalPhytotaxa
Volume428
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Jan 2020

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Funding

Fieldwork was granted by the Ministry of the Environment of Ecuador (003-2019-IC-FLO-DNB/MAE). AJP, NZ and CP express their gratitude to Wilson Paucar (director of El Quimi Reserve), Juan Carlos Fernandez (park ranger of El Quimi Reserve) and the Valle del Quimi community for their support during the fieldwork. We also thank Luis Albuja, Ana Armendariz and Ramiro Barriga from Escuela Politécnica Nacional for their valuable information and photographs of the RAP to the Cordillera del Cóndor in 1993; Robert Gradstein kindly provided image 2A and Françoise Lopez from Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle, Paris for editing; Carlos E. Sarmiento editor of Caldasia kindly authorised use of image 2B; Rubén D. Jarrín E. (ComCienCia) kindly designed figures 1, 2 and 4; staff of Fungario QCAM kindly identified the fungus; Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de la República del Ecuador for financial support (SENESCYT, Arca de Noé Initiative, S. R. Ron and O. Torres–Carvajal, Principal Investigators); the Universidad de Guadalajara-CUCBA, CONACyT-SNI and PROMEP-SEP in Mexico; the curators of F, MO, QCA, QCNE & WIS herbaria for providing material for this research; anonymous reviewers and Mark Chase, subject editor of Phytotaxa.

FundersFunder number
CONACyT-SNI
Ministry of the Environment of Ecuador003-2019-IC-FLO-DNB/MAE
PROMEP-SEP
Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de la República del Ecuador
Universidad de Guadalajara-CUCBA
Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
Escuela Politécnica Nacional

    Keywords

    • Achupallas Camp
    • Andean tepui
    • Cordillera del Cóndor
    • Dugandiodendron
    • Reserva Biológica El Quimi

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