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Issue: Vol. 253 No. 3: 29 March 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-03-29
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.253.3.6
Page range: 219–222
Abstract views: 17
PDF downloaded: 18

Clusia nubium (Clusiaceae): a new species from cloud-forests of southwestern Ecuador

Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ole Worms Alle 1, Building 1137, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Science Museums, Aarhus University, Ole Worms Alle 1, Building 1137, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Andean region Clusia sect. Retinostemon endemism resin excreting flowers Eudicots Ecuador

Abstract

Clusia nubium from southwestern Ecuador is described as a species new to science. It grows as a hemiepiphyte in lower montane cloud forest. The species belongs to Clusia sect. Retinostemon, a largely Andean group characterized by male flowers with a resin-secreting synandrium of completely fused stamens and sometimes also anthers and staminodes. It differs from all other species in that section by the combination of creamy-white petals; male flowers with a dome-shaped synandrium with numerous fused stamens surrounding a group of resin secreting staminodia; and large fruits with 9–15 peltate stigmata forming a ring.

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