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Novae Gesneriaceae Neotropicarum XVI: Cremosperma anisophyllum, a new species of Gesneriaceae from the Chocó region of northern Ecuador and southern Colombia

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A new species of Cremosperma (Gesneriaceae, tribe Beslerieae) is described from the Chocó floristic region of the western Andean slopes of northern Ecuador and southern Colombia. The dorsiventral shoots and strongly anisophyllous leaves differentiate Cremosperma anisophyllum from all other congeners.

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Se describe una nueva especie de Cremosperma (Gesneriaceae, tribu Beslerieae) de los bosques nublados de la región florística Chocó en las faldas de los Andes en el Norte de Ecuador y el Sur de Colombia. Las ramas dorsiventrales y la hojas anisófilas distinguen a Cremosperma anisophyllum de otras congéneres.

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Acknowledgments

Support for this study was provided by The Gesneriad Society and the National Science Foundation (DEB 0841958). Fieldwork in 2003 was conducted while the first author was supported by a Fulbright Graduate Study and Research Abroad Fellowship. We are grateful to Alice Tangerini for preparing the illustration of the new species; to William Anderson (MICH) for providing the Latin diagnosis; and to Silvana Marten-Rodriguez (USJ) for the Spanish translation of the abstract. Herbaria MO, QCNE, and SEL are acknowledged for making their collections available to us. We thank John R. Clark (SEL) and Christian Feuillet (US) for providing helpful reviews and input to the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Box 870345, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487-0345, USA

    John L. Clark

  2. Department of Botany, MRC-166, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC, 20013-7012, USA

    John L. Clark & Laurence E. Skog

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Clark, J.L., Skog, L.E. Novae Gesneriaceae Neotropicarum XVI: Cremosperma anisophyllum, a new species of Gesneriaceae from the Chocó region of northern Ecuador and southern Colombia. Brittonia 63, 133–138 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-010-9147-z

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