Friday, November 19, 2021

[Botany • 2021] Dicliptera mercedesiae (Acanthaceae: Justicieae) • A New Species from Peru

 

Dicliptera mercedesiae   
in Villanueva-Espinoza, Wasshausen & Fernandez-Hilario, 2021. 


Abstract
Dicliptera mercedesiae (Acanthaceae: Justicieae), a new species is described and illustrated from the Junin region of Peru. The new species is similar to Dicliptera purpurascens, but differs by its subsessile flowers, smaller elliptic cymules bracts and corolla without resupination.

Keywords: bilabiate flower, Junín, not-resupinate corolla, purple bracts, taxonomy, Eudicots




Rosa Villanueva-Espinoza, Dieter Wasshausen and Robin Fernandez-Hilario. 2021. Dicliptera mercedesiae, A New Species of the Genus Dicliptera (Acanthaceae) from Peru. Phytotaxa. 518(1); 36-44. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.518.1.4