Rediscovery of Rubus pendulus Rusby (Rosaceae) and a new record for the flora of Ecuador and Peru

David A. Espinel-Ortiz; Carla J. Rodríguez; Katya Romoleroux

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.227.100859

Rediscovery of Rubus pendulus Rusby (Rosaceae) and a new record for the flora of Ecuador and Peru

David A. Espinel-Ortiz
, Carla J. Rodríguez
, Katya Romoleroux^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We report the rediscovery of Rubus pendulus Rusby, “Mora India”, described in 1933 from Colombia and not mentioned again until the present study. We also update its distribution with eight new localities in Colombia, seven in Ecuador and one in Peru, being a new record for the flora of the latter two countries. This is the first time that R. pendulus’ stipules and flowers are found and detailed through a botanical description, illustrations and photographs. Rubus pendulus is morphologically differentiated from R. bogotensis Benth., R. mollifrons Focke, R. porphyromallos Focke and R. urticifolius Poir., with whom it was previously confused and we give a brief explanation on the type specimen status of R. mollifrons and R. porphyromallos.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	109-122
Number of pages	14
Journal	PhytoKeys
Volume	227
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.227.100859
State	Published - 2 Jun 2023

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© David A. Espinel-Ortiz et al. This is an open access article distributed under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution 4.0 International – CC BY 4.0).

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We would like to thank Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) for funding this research under the investigation projects: “Caracterización de la diversidad genética y fenología de Rubus ellipticus Sm. (Rosaceae), especie in-troducida en Ecuador”, “Morfometría de las especies del género Rubus L. de Ecuador (PUCE)” and “Evaluación de la distribución de las especies introducidas en Ecuador del género Rubus L. en base a información de colecciones botáni-cas de los herbarios ecuatorianos (PUCE)”. Ministerio de Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica (MAATE) for research permit MAAE-DBI-CM–2021–0171. Gonzalo Abad and Martín Morocho for their assistance during field trips. We would also like to thank Carlos Cerón, and Carmita Reyes for collecting additional material of R. pendulus in Yunguilla and Jorge A. Pérez for the suggestions to improve this work.

Keywords

Andes
Ecuadorian
Rubeae
taxonomy

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