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| Type of: | Sciodaphyllum balslevii Lowry, G.M.Plunkett, M.M.Mora & D.A.Neill |
| Collector | Neill, D. |
| Number | 18710 |
| Collected with | Porter P. Lowry II, Gregory M. Plunkett & Efren Merino |
| Country | Ecuador |
| Subpart | Tungurahua |
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| Locality | Baños Canton. Langanates National Park, ca. 8 km north of Baños-Mera highway. Watershed of Río Zuñac, along trail ascending ridge towards crest of Cordillera Abitagua, about 3 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° 29' 59'' S 78° 8' 1'' W |
| Minimum elevation (m) | 2488 |
| Maximum elevation (m) | 2488 |
| 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 |
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| Field notes | Sparesly branched tree ca. 3 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. Buds and flowers pale yellow green, ovary with dense ferruginous indument, calyptrate corolla tinged light reddish-purple, filaments pale yellow-green, anthers reddish-purple. Immature fruits arranged radially in umbellules, ovary dark brownish-purple, calyx rim and minute teeth lighter, disc white tinged deep pinkish-purple, styles darker, stylar branches 2. DNA |
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