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Issue: Vol. 184 No. 5: 12 November 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-11-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.184.5.5
Page range: 290–294
Abstract views: 19
PDF downloaded: 19

Magnolia sanchez-vegae, a new species of Magnoliaceae from northern Peru 

Herbario MOL, Departamento de Manejo Forestal, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina. Av. La Universidad s/n, Lima Perú Laboratório de Anatomia e Dendrocronologia, Departamento de Ciências Florestais. Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo. Brasil.
Laboratório de Anatomia e Dendrocronologia, Departamento de Ciências Florestais. Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo. Brasil.
Magnolia sanchez-vegae Magnoliaceae northern Peru

Abstract

The family Magnoliaceae Jussieu (1789: 280) in South America includes a total of 50 species. Thirty species are listed for Colombia, ten for Ecuador, eight for Peru, three each for Brazil and Venezuela, and one for Bolivia (Lozano-Contreras, 1994; Nee, 1994; Dillon & Sanchez, 2009; Arroyo & Pérez 2013; Marcelo-Peña & Arroyo 2013; Vázquez et al. 2013). The following species are currently known to occur in Peru: Magnolia rimachii (Lozano 1994: 104) Govaerts (1996: 71), M. amazonica (Ducke 1915: 11) Govaerts (1996: 70), M. bankardiorum Dillon & Sánchez-Vega (2009: 7), M. jaenensis Marcelo-Peña (2013: 110), M. manguillo Marcelo-Peña & Arroyo (2013: 113), M. elfina Vázquez (2012: 100), M. gentryi Vázquez (2012: 104) and M. peruviana Vázquez.(2012: 117).