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

  • Carmen X. Luzuriaga-Quichimbo Centro de Investigación Biomédicas – CENBIO, Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial, 170147 Quito
  • Pedro Escobar García Department of Botany, Natural History Museum of Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010, Vienna, Austria
  • Carlos E. Cerón-Martínez Herbario Alfredo Paredes QAP, Universidad Central de Ecuador, Apt. Postal 17.01.2177, Quito, Ecuador
  • José Blanco-Salas Grupo de Investigación de Biología de la Conservación, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
  • Trinidad Ruiz-Téllez Grupo de Investigación de Biología de la Conservación, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/MBOT.60367
Keywords: plant biodiversity, Caryodendron, Erythrina, Inga, Marila, Swartzia, Tetrorchidium, typification, H. Karsten, E. F. Poeppig, Vienna Natural History Museum, Ecuadorian Amazon.
Agencies: This work was funded by the Government of Extremadura (Spain) and the European Union through the action “Apoyos a los Planes de Actuación de los Grupos de Investigación Catalogados de la Junta de Extremadura, FEDER GR15080”.

Abstract

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).

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Published
2019-01-23
How to Cite
Luzuriaga-Quichimbo C. X., Escobar García P., Cerón-Martínez C. E., Blanco-Salas J. y Ruiz-Téllez T. (2019). Notes clarifying the status on some ethnobotanical species from the Ecuadorian Amazon. Mediterranean Botany, 40(1), 139-142. https://doi.org/10.5209/MBOT.60367
Issue
Vol. 40 No. 1 (2019)
Section
Short Notes

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