Notes clarifying the status on some ethnobotanical species from the Ecuadorian Amazon

LUZURIAGA QUICHIMBO, CARMEN XIMENA; Pedro Escobar García; Carlos E. Cerón-Martínez; José Blanco-Salas; Trinidad Ruiz-Téllez

doi:10.5209/MBOT.60367

Notes clarifying the status on some ethnobotanical species from the Ecuadorian Amazon

Journal

Mediterranean Botany

ISSN

2603-9109

Date Issued

2019-01-23

Author(s)

LUZURIAGA QUICHIMBO, CARMEN XIMENA

Facultad de Odontología

Pedro Escobar García

Carlos E. Cerón-Martínez

José Blanco-Salas

Trinidad Ruiz-Téllez

DOI

10.5209/MBOT.60367

URL

https://cris.ute.edu.ec/handle/123456789/801

Abstract

Despite belonging to one of the most biodiverse ecoregions on Earth, the Ecuadorian Amazon remains largely unexplored. During the elaboration of an ethnobotanical checklist of the useful plants in the Kichwa community of Pakayaku (Pastaza, Ecuador), we faced taxonomical difficulties due to the lack of basic information and unknown location of type specimens for several plant names. In this contribution, we present notes clarifying the status of six taxa of the H. Karsten and E. F. Poeppig names and locate the corresponding type specimens at the herbarium W (Natural History Museum, Vienna).