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Type: Article
Published: 2019-08-20
Page range: 199–239
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FLORISTIC CATALOGUE OF USEFUL PLANTS FROM A SCARCELY CONTACTED KICHWA INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY IN THE ECUADORIAN AMAZON (PAKAYAKU, PASTAZA, ECUADOR)

Centro de Investigación Biomédica CENBIO, Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial, 170147 Quito, Ecuador
Herbario Alfredo Paredes QAP, Universidad Central de Ecuador, Apt. Postal 17.01.2177, Quito, Ecuador
Grupo de Investigación de Biología de la Conservación, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Grupo de Investigación de Biología de la Conservación, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria
General Amazonian Ecuador floristic catalogue ethnobotany new citations flora Kichwa indigenous people

Abstract

Pakayaku is a scarcely contacted community of Kichwa indigenous people situated in the banks of river Bobonaza (Pastaza, Ecuador) at the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazonia. In this paper we present a catalogue of 250 taxa of useful vascular plants belonging to 81 families from the Pakayaku ancestral territories, a so far unexplored area. 126 taxa are first citations for the Bobonaza valley, 22 new for Pastaza province, the largest administrative province of the country, and 1, Pouteria manaosensis, is cited for the first time for Ecuador. In total, approximately 60% of the catalogue consists of new citations.