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Type: Article
Published: 2014-12-09
Page range: 21–30
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Three new species of Ficus (Moraceae) from Central and northern-South America

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia
Andes Chocó Neotropical flora Taxonomy Urostigma

Abstract

Three new species of Ficus are described and illustrated. F. nebulosilvana which is restricted to the cloud forest of western Andes in Colombia and Ecuador, F. palmarensis which is restricted to the cloud forests of Chocó in Colombia, and F. plectonervata which is distributed from the central biogeographic region of Chocó in Colombia to Costa Rica. Species conservation assessments are presented and the taxonomic relationships of the new species and etymology are discussed.