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Type: Article
Published: 2018-01-12
Page range: 41–48
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Paronychia sanchez-vegae (Caryophyllaceae), a new woody species of Paronychia from North Peru

Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Botany Section, National Herbarium of The Netherlands, Herbarium Vadense. Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands Instituto Científico Michael Owen Dillon, Av. Jorge Chávez 610, Cercado, Arequipa, Perú Instituto de Ciencia y Gestión Ambiental de la Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa. Calle San Agustín 108, Arequipa-Perú
Laboratorio de Florística, Departamento de Dicotiledóneas, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas Antonio Raimondi, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
Departamento de Botánica, Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque, Perú Instituto Estudiantil de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad “Maximilian Weigend” – INEBRIO, Lambayeque, Perú
Systematic Biology, EBC, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern 0318, Oslo, Norway
Amazonas Central Andes new taxon Paronychia Peru Eudicots

Abstract

As part of botanical expeditions in the Amazonas region of North Peru, we found plants from the Central Andes (North Peru). Based on morphology and molecular data, the Peruvian population was described and illustrated here as a new species for Science, named Paronychia sanchez-vegae. The new species is compared with its most likely closest relative, P. andina from which differs by the larger size, its woody ramified stems, the glabrous leaf surface, shorter leaf size, shorter flowers and larger size of the ovary.