Notes clarifying the status on some ethnobotanical species from the Ecuadorian Amazon

Notes clarifying the status on some ethnobotanical species from the Ecuadorian Amazon

Despite belonging to one of the most biodiverse ecoregions on Earth, the Ecuadorian Amazon remains largely unexplored. During the elaboration of an ethnobotanical checklist of the useful plants in the Kichwa community of Pakayaku (Pastaza, Ecuador), we faced taxonomical difficulties due to the lack...

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Main Authors: Carmen X. Luzuriaga-Quichimbo, Pedro Escobar García, Carlos E. Cerón-Martínez, José Blanco-Salas, Trinidad Ruiz-Téllez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2019-01-01
Series:Mediterranean Botany
Subjects:
plant biodiversity
caryodendron
erythrina
inga
marila
swartzia
tetrorchidium
typification
h. karsten
e. f. poeppig
vienna natural history museum
ecuadorian amazon.
Online Access:https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/MBOT/article/view/60367
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Summary:Despite belonging to one of the most biodiverse ecoregions on Earth, the Ecuadorian Amazon remains largely unexplored. During the elaboration of an ethnobotanical checklist of the useful plants in the Kichwa community of Pakayaku (Pastaza, Ecuador), we faced taxonomical difficulties due to the lack of basic information and unknown location of type specimens for several plant names. In this contribution, we present notes clarifying the status of six taxa of the H. Karsten and E. F. Poeppig names and locate the corresponding type specimens at the herbarium W (Natural History Museum, Vienna).
ISSN:2603-9109

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