Abstract
Three new species of Valeriana from southern Ecuador are described and illustrated. Valeriana plateadensis is found near the highest peak of Cerro Plateado in Cordillera del Cóndor at 2900 m a.s.l. and is recognized by the shrubby habit and sessile, densely imbricate, spatulate leaves and 3-lobed corollas. V. yacuriensis is found near Lagunas Negras de Jimbura in the Parque Nacional Yacurí at 3500 m a.s.l. and is recognized by the shrubby habit, petiolate leaves and 3-lobed corollas. V. xenophylloides is found in the Páramo de Patococha at 3400 m a.s.l. and is recognized by its cushion growth form, the crown of trichomes at the leaf apex and 3-lobed corollas.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Phytotaxa |
| State | Published - 13 Jan 2023 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
The fieldwork was supported by the permits issued by The Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica del Ecuador (No. 09-IC-FLO-DNB/MAE, MAE-DNB-CM-2015-0031, MAE-ARSFC-2020-0473). The research of PS in Ecuador was funded by the Grant Agency of The Czech Republic (project no. 17-12420S). The expedition to Cerro Plateado in 2016 was supported by 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, Principal Investigators) and in 2021 by the International Palm Society (IPS) Endowment Fund and The University of Gothenburg, the expedition also received partial funding from The European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 865787, GLOBAL project). The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and Herbario QCA provided logistic and technical facilities after the trips. The fieldwork was supported by the permits issued by the Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica del Ecuador (No. 09-IC-FLO-DNB/MAE, MAE-DNB-CM-2015-0031, MAE-ARSFC-2020-0473). The research of PS in Ecuador was funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project no. 17-12420S). The expedition to Cerro Plateado in 2016 was supported by 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, Principal Investigators) and in 2021 by the International Palm Society (IPS) Endowment Fund and the University of Gothenburg, the expedition also received partial funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 865787, GLOBAL project). The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and Herbario QCA provided logistic and technical facilities after the trips.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| International Palm Society | |
| Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador | |
| Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de la República del Ecuador | |
| Horizon 2020 Framework Programme | 865787 |
| Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica | MAE-DNB-CM-2015-0031, MAE-ARSFC-2020-0473, 09-IC-FLO-DNB/MAE |
| European Research Council | |
| Grantová Agentura České Republiky | 17-12420S |
| Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación | |
| Göteborgs Universitet |