ibclogo XVI International Botanical Congess

Abstract Number: 4720
Poster No. = 894


SYNOPSIS FROM PERUVIAN SPECIES OF LARNAX (MIERS) HUNTZIKER (SOLANACEAE:SOLANEAE)


Segundo Leiva-Gonzalez1 and Sawyer Neil2, 1Antenor Orrego Private University, Post-office Box 1001, Trujillo-Perú, 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3034, U.S.A.


The genus Larnax (Miers) Huntz. consists of about 16 species of herbs, shrubs and small trees that inhabits tropical montane and premontane humid andean forest of South America, ranging from Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador to Northern Peru. In Peru there are seven taxa properly described, of which five are endemics, however the finding of the new species, suggests that Northern Peru is the center of distribution. For that we are presenting a preliminary synopsis as a result of the critical revision of herbarium material, and of the last collections, in addition to this, we are providing its morphology, distribution, ecology, uses, phenology and relationships.

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