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Type: Article
Published: 2019-11-18
Page range: 87–96
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Neobartsia matuy (Orobanchaceae), a new species from the Colombian Andes

Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Herbario FMB, Carrera 8 # 15-08, Claustro de San Agustín, Villa de Leyva, Colombia
Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Herbario FMB, Carrera 8 # 15-08, Claustro de San Agustín, Villa de Leyva, Colombia
Herbario UPTC, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. Tunja, Colombia
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter MS 3051, Moscow, Idaho, 83844, U.S.A.
Eudicots Bartsia Boyacá Colombia endemism Orthocarpiflorae páramo

Abstract

A new species of Neobartsia endemic to the eastern Andes of Colombia is described, illustrated, and compared with related species. This species belongs to section Orthocarpiflorae and morphologically it is characterized by having floral bracts light green with glandular hairs, corolla yellowish green, the galea cucullate, longer than the lip, retrorsely glandular-puberulous, the lip three-lobed, glabrous and the corolla tube decurved. Currently, it is only known from two localities in the Colombian department of Boyacá, where it grows in the páramo ecosystem between 3528 and 3639 meters above sea level on rocky soil with grassy vegetation.