Abstract
Two new species of Myrtaceae, Eugenia saparensis and Plinia oblongifolia, from the remote Sápara territory in the Amazonian province of Pastaza in Ecuador are described and illustrated. A distribution map is provided, their morphological relationships to the putative closest species in these genera are discussed and a preliminary conservation status of Data Deficient (DD) is assigned for each species.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 295-300 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Harvard Papers in Botany |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 31 Dec 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2024 President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Funding
We thank the curators and staff of F, QCA, SEL, and VT for their support with this study and Weston Testo for help with the manuscript. We thank the Nacionalidad Sápara del Ecuador (NASE) for granting us permission to work in their territory, and Cesario Santi for his help organizing the field expedition. We are also grateful to the people from the Balsaura Community, in Pastaza Province, for their hospitality and friendship. Results presented here were funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 865787). Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica del Ecuador issued a permit under number MAE-ARSFC-2022-2237 and MAATE-ARSFC-2024-0434.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| European Research Council | |
| Nacionalidad Sápara del Ecuador | |
| Horizon 2020 Framework Programme | 865787 |
| Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica | MAATE-ARSFC-2024-0434, MAE-ARSFC-2022-2237 |
Keywords
- Amazonia
- Conservation
- Ecuador
- Eugenia
- Pastaza
- Plinia
- Sápara
- Taxonomy
