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| Collector | Neill, D.A. |
| Number | 18702 |
| Collected with | Porter P. Lowry II, Gregory M. Plunkett & Efrén Merino |
| Country | Ecuador |
| Subpart | Tungurahua |
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| Locality | Baños Cantòn. Llanganates National Park, ca. 6 km north of Baños-Mera highway. Watershed of Río Zuñac, along trail ascending ridge towards crest of Cordillera Abitagua, about 1 km above the boundary of the national park with the Río Zuñac reserve of Fundación EcoMinga. Very wet cloud forest with abundant epiphytes; granite substrate. With students in the "Tropical Botany" field course, part of the project "Systematics and Evolution of the Neotropical clade of Schefflera s.l. (Araliaceae)". |
| Coordinates | 1° 21' 58'' S 78° 8' 32'' W |
| Minimum elevation (m) | 2328 |
| Maximum elevation (m) | 2328 |
| Start date | 2019/01/10 |
| End date | 2019/01/10 |
| Family | Araliaceae |
| Identification | Sciodaphyllum balslevii Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, M.M.Mora & D.A.Neill |
| Determined by | P.P. Lowry II (MO) & G.M Plunkett (NY) |
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| Field notes | Sparsely branched tree ca. 5 m tall. Leaves dark green above, paler beneath, bundle-compound, with the leaflets forming a regular whorl, the petiole, petiolules, midvein and margins dark reddish-purple. Inflorescence axes and pedicels dark reddish purple. Post-anthesis flowers arranged radially, ovary yellow-green, tinged reddish, with dense indument, calyx rim tinged reddish-purple, with 5 minute teeth, disc white, stylar column reddish-purple, stylar branches 2. Immature fruit laterally compressed, yellow green tinged reddish, turning dark purple. Photos, DNA. |
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