Novae Gesneriaceae Neotropicarum XVI: Pearcea pileifolia, a New Species of Gesneriaceae from South America

• John L. Clark ^{[1] [2]} ; Laurence E. Skog ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

     University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

     Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] Botany Department, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
• Localización: Novon: a journal for botanical nomenclature, ISSN 1055-3177, Vol. 19, Nº. 4, 2009, págs. 439-443
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A new species of Gesneriaceae (tribe Gloxinieae) is described from Ecuador and Peru in South America. Pearcea pileifolia J. L. Clark & L. E. Skog is vegetatively distinctive from all other species of Pearcea Regel by its oblong leaf blades with crenate to serrate margins and markedly anisophyllous, opposite leaves with the smaller leaf in a pair reduced to a scalelike appendage. Observations of the bivalved fruit dehiscence and the resulting appearance of winged appendages in P. pileifolia and other congeners are discussed.