Plantae Colombianae,-1: A New species of Herrania from the Putumayo

• Main Author: Schultes Richard Evans
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 1942-06-01
• Series: Caldasia
• Subjects: Herrania; Schultes; breviligulata; ethnobotanical investigation
• Online Access: http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/cal/article/view/31760

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US">During the course of ethnobotanical investigation in the upper Putumayo in southern Colombia (*), the writer collected an interesting species of Herrania. Upon examination, this species proves to be undescribed. A description and critical comments relative to the relationships of this new species are herein presented together with a diagnostic drawing</span></p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: " lang="EN-US">of the plant and its floral parts.</span>