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.
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Costa-Lima, J. & Chagas, E. (2020) A synopsis of Dicliptera (Acanthaceae) in Brazil, with the description of two new species. Systematic Botany 45: 340–348. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364420X15862837791186
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Kiel, C., Daniel, T., Darbyshire, I. & McDade, L. (2017) Unraveling relationships in the morphologically diverse and taxonomically challenging ‘justicioid’ lineage (Acanthaceae, Justicieae). Taxon 66: 645–674. https://doi.org/10.12705/663.8
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Leonard, E.C. (1958) The Acanthaceae of Colombia. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 31 (3): 323–781.
Lindau, G. (1904) Acanthaceae Americanae IV. Bulletin de L’Herbier Boissier, Série II, 4: 313–328.
Lindau, G. (1905a) Plantae nonnullae novae andinae. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 1: 156–159. https://doi.org/10.1002/fedr.4870011004
Lindau, G. (1905b) Acanthaceae Americanae IV. Bulletin de L’Herbier Boissier, Série II 5: 367?374.
Link, H.F. (1820) Der botanische Garten bei Berlin und die Willdenowsche kräutersammlung. Jahrbücher der Gewächskunde 1: 13–93.
Linnaeus, C. von (1753) Species Plantarum 1. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Holmiæ, Stockholm, 560 pp.
McDade, L, Daniel, T., Masta, S. & Riley, K. (2000) Phylogenetic relationships within the tribe Justicieae (Acanthaceae): Evidence from molecular sequences, morphology, and cytology. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 87: 435–458. https://doi.org/10.2307/2666140
Nees, C.G.D.N. von. (1847a) Acanthaceae. In de Candolle, A.L.P.P. (Ed.) Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 11. Treuttel et Würtz, Paris, pp. 46–519.
Nees, C.G.D.N. von. (1847b) Acanthaceae. In Martius, K.P. von, Eichler, A.G. & Urban, I. (Eds.) Flora Brasiliensis 9. Typographia Regia, Monachii, pp. 1–164, pl. 1–31.
Ruiz, L.H. & Pavón, J.A. (1798) Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis 1. Typis Gabrielis de Sancha, Madrid, 78 pp.
Regel, E.A. von (1875) Oxalis ortgiesii. Gartenflora 24: 1–2, pl. 817.
Sims, J. (1825) Thunbergia alata. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 52: pl. 2591.
Thiers, B. (2017) Index Herbariorum: A global directory of public herbaria and asociated staff. New York Botanical Garden´s Virtual Herbarium, Available from: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/ (accessed 30 July 2020)
Villanueva-Espinoza, R. & Condo, F. (2019) Sinopsis de la Familia Acanthaceae en el Perú. Revista Forestal del Perú 34 (1): 21–40. https://doi.org/10.21704/rfp.v34i1.1282
Wasshausen, D.C. (1987) New and interesting species of Acanthaceae from Peru. Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 63 (3): 421–429.
Wasshausen, D. (1991) New Species of Dicliptera (Acanthaceae) from the Guianas. Brittonia 43 (1): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.2307/2807168
Wasshausen, D. & Wood, J. (2004a) Notes on the genus Dicliptera (Acanthaceae) in Bolivia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 117 (1): 140–149.
Wasshausen, D. & Wood, J. (2004b) Acanthaceae of Bolivia. Contribution from the United States National Herbarium 49: 1–152.
Wasshausen, D. (2013) Acanthaceae. In Persson, C. & Stahl, B. (Eds.) Flora of Ecuador. Goteborg, Sweden, University of Gothenburg, pp. 1–328.
Wood, J. (1988) Colombian Acanthaceae: Some New Discoveries and Some Reconsiderations. Kew Bulletin 43: 1–51. https://doi.org/10.2307/4118035