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Issue: Vol. 687 No. 2: 18 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-18
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.687.2.8
Page range: 295-300
Abstract views: 531
PDF downloaded: 15

Dracontium fuscopunctatum (Araceae): A striking new species from southeastern Ecuador

Herbario GUAY, Departamento de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad de Guayaquil, Av. Raúl Gómez Lince s.n. y Av. Juan Tanca Marengo (campus Mapasingue), P.O. Box 09-01-10634, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., Saint Louis, MO 63110, U.S.A.
Universidad Central del Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Escuela de Ingeniería Agronómica, Quito, Ecuador
Lasioideae Amotape-Huancabamba zone endemism montane forests neotropics Morona Santiago Monocots

Abstract

Dracontium fuscopunctatum, a new species of Araceae—Lasioideae—Dracontieae from the lower montane forest at the eastern Andean slopes, in the province of Morona Santiago, southeastern Ecuador, is here described and illustrated. It is characterized by the tubercles produced on top of tubers within a depression with thickened raised-margins. The new species is also characterized by leaf blades with veins sulcate and scattered tufts with glandular trichomes adaxially, prominent black glands abaxially, inflorescence with a large spathe that has punctuations to short dark strikes at base and abundant epidermal raphides without, and flowers with stigma disciform, sessile. Dracontium fuscopunctatum, is assessed provisionally as Endangered.

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How to Cite

Cornejo, X., Croat, T. & Tello-Hidalgo, G. (2025) Dracontium fuscopunctatum (Araceae): A striking new species from southeastern Ecuador. Phytotaxa 687 (2): 295–300. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.687.2.8