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Issue: Vol. 275 No. 1: 16 September 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-09-16
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.275.1.9
Page range: 75–80
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 37

Coccoloba tunii (Polygonaceae), a new species from Chiapas (Mexico)

Cuerpo Académico Diversidad de los Recursos Florísticos de Mesoamérica, Campus de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. A. P. 4-116, Mérida, Yucatán, México
Herbario HUTPL, Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, A. P. 11-01-608, Loja, Ecuador.
Cuerpo Académico Diversidad de los Recursos Florísticos de Mesoamérica, Campus de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. A. P. 4-116, Mérida, Yucatán, México
Coccoloba Coccoloba liebmannii Eudicots Mexico

Abstract

Coccoloba tunii is here described as a new species from Mexico. Morphological characters of the leaf, inflorescence, and fruit show discontinuities among populations of C. tunii and its relative, C. liebmannii. In addition, both species exhibit different geographical patterns, C. tunii is exclusive of the Central Depression and Plateau of Chiapas (Mexico) at mid elevations, while C. liebmannii ranges from Oaxaca to Colima on lowlands along the Pacific watershed.