FLORISTIC CATALOGUE OF USEFUL PLANTS FROM A SCARCELY CONTACTED KICHWA INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY IN THE ECUADORIAN AMAZON (PAKAYAKU, PASTAZA, ECUADOR)

LUZURIAGA QUICHIMBO, CARMEN XIMENA; CARLOS E. CERÓN-MARTÍNEZ; JOSÉ BLANCO-SALAS; TRINIDAD RUIZ-TÉLLEZ; PEDRO ESCOBAR GARCÍA

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.414.5.1

FLORISTIC CATALOGUE OF USEFUL PLANTS FROM A SCARCELY CONTACTED KICHWA INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY IN THE ECUADORIAN AMAZON (PAKAYAKU, PASTAZA, ECUADOR)

Journal

Phytotaxa

ISSN

1179-3155

Date Issued

2019-08-20

Author(s)

LUZURIAGA QUICHIMBO, CARMEN XIMENA

Facultad de Odontología

CARLOS E. CERÓN-MARTÍNEZ

JOSÉ BLANCO-SALAS

TRINIDAD RUIZ-TÉLLEZ

PEDRO ESCOBAR GARCÍA

DOI

10.11646/phytotaxa.414.5.1

URL

https://cris.ute.edu.ec/handle/123456789/791

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.