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Published In: Acta Botanica Hungarica 59: 32. 2017. (Acta Bot. Hung.) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 9/2/2019)
Acceptance : Accepted
Note : Palicourea subg. Montanae sect. Psychotrioides ser. 8
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Notes:

Palicourea aschersoniana is characterized by its dense hirtellous to pilosulous pubescence, with the stem trichomes reflexed; medium-sized, petiolate leaves with finely bullulate blades and relatively numerous secondary veins; laminar, deeply lobed stipules with parallel sides and narrowly triangular lobes; shortly pedunculate, paniculiform inflorescences with the flowers borne in dichasial cymes and subtended by bracts 4--9 mm long; shallowly lobed calyx limbs ca. 0.5 mm long; tubular-funnelform, white to yellow corollas that are pilosulous externally with tubes 7--9 mm long; medium-sized, lanceoloid fruits that are weakly laterally flattened; and hemispherical pyrenes with four or five well developed, rounded, abaxial ridges and a slender medial groove. This species has been collected in a number of scattered localities across a rather broad range.

Palicourea aschersoniana is similar to and apparently closely related to several other species that are also found in premontane to usually high-montane elevations in the northern Andes; see the page for Palicourea aschersonianoides for a key to these.

Distribution: This species is found in wet forest at 1900--3350 m in the northern Andes, widely in Colombia (Antioquia, Boyacá, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Huila, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima, Valle del Cauca) and in adjacent western Venezuela (Táchira).

 


 

 
 
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