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Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-03
Page range: 279–285
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Freziera dasycarpa (Pentaphylacaceae), a new species from the montane forest of Antioquia, Colombia

Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-2020 Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA
Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA
Antioquia Colombia Montane forests Pentaphylacaceae Freziera Eudicots

Abstract

Freziera dasycarpa, a new species from the montane forest of Antioquia, Colombia, is described. The new species is compared with morphologically similar species and distinguished from them by a unique combination of characters, among them, notably the villous abaxial surface of the petals, ovary, and immature fruits, a feature otherwise, at present, unknown in the other species of the genus Freziera.