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10. 
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E. &amp; 
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6199
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: QCA!; isotype: Z!)
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<emphasis id="CEA1A4DDE49703DFDA5CB914B9E4B31D" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 33.</emphasis>
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T.Boza, K. Romol. &amp; M.Kessler 
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flowering branch 
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upper leaflet surface 
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lower leaflet surface 
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bark 
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flowers (
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). Scale bars: 
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(
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). Photographs 
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T. E. Boza E. 
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E. Bastidas.
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<paragraph id="DE6783CEFE96382098CE6E8288E033F8" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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4-12 m tall. 
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strongly congested at the branch tips, imparipinnate with 3-4 pairs of the lateral leaflets, obtrullate in outline, 4.5-6.3 
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3.4-4.3 cm; rachises densely sericeous, points of leaflet attachment with a tuft of long, straight whitish hairs; stipular sheaths apically acute with spurs, densely sericeous in the upper surface; leaflets elliptic in outline, second pair from the terminal leaflet the largest, one of this pair 1.8-2.8 
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0.6-0.9 cm; margin entire, apically emarginate, basally unequally cordate; upper leaflet surfaces glabrous; lower leaflet surfaces densely sericeous with whitish hairs 0.2-0.4 mm. long. 
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pendant, 13.0-17.9(-20.4) cm long, bearing 23-29 flowers; floral bracts 9.3-11.1 mm long, narrowly triangular, densely sericeous on the outer surface; rachises glabrous. 
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7.4-8.4 mm diam.; sepals 4, ovate, green, densely sericeous outside; stamens 9-15, anthers orbicular, with a dense tuft of straight white hairs on the upper half; styles fimbriate, 1.9-2.9 mm long. 
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turbinate, with variable numbers and placement of flattened spines, densely sericeous; 3.3-5.1 
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3.1-7.4 mm including spines. 
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.
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T.Boza, K.Romoleroux &amp; M.Kessler 
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flowering branch 
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upper leaf surface 
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lower leaf surface 
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fruit 
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stipular sheats (
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). Scale bars: 7 cm (
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); 2 cm (
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); 5 mm (
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). Photographs by T. E. Boza E.
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<paragraph id="271FE23D7FC31009A146CFAF9C4E9D37" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution, habitat and ecology.</paragraph>
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is restricted to Chimborazo Province in Ecuador (Fig. 
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). It occurs in small populations in mixed Andean Forest at 3800-4000 m elevation.
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<paragraph id="F4F42449BF7704C961357BF83AB2A977" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Conservation status.</paragraph>
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The AOO is estimated as 4 km2 and it has been collected at only two locations in Ecuador. Although it is protected within Sangay National Park, burning of the 
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grassland matrix likely affects the remaining 
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forest patches. Therefore, we assess 
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<emphasis id="CF37C10A8943506605025AC80BEFD9A9" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. humboldtii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as Critically Endangered (B2a, C2).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="0D951D72EC8E5D3B536A57F1CB7E2CC9" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="notes">
<paragraph id="D7A0FB2D35E2C311A8D4FA98A4CE36AB" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Notes.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="FC84F9FFD0E0361B5E63E91D636E0253" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<taxonomicName id="E82848CAC8E920298779A757A8D72231" class="Aves" family="Rosaceae" genus="Polylepis" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Polylepis humboldtii" order="Centrales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Marchantiophyta" rank="species" species="humboldtii">
<emphasis id="17864FA015D3091A1023DD795CA229F2" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Polylepis humboldtii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
seems morphologically closest to 
<taxonomicName id="FA4335B72950282FDAF35F9D9432BD5D" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="P. sericea" order="Rosales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="sericea">
<emphasis id="582846A3739DA5E897377C398F1CF861" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. sericea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with which it shares similar leaflet shape, margin, apex and upper and lower leaflet surfaces hairs type and density. The most obvious differences between these species are leaflet hair length, with 
<taxonomicName id="E053D9C219049E8FFF112DCD852F1E30" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="P. humboldtii" order="Rosales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="humboldtii">
<emphasis id="25B8AD8116D8E8C497CB3D89AD7A68B8" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. humboldtii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
having shorter hairs than 
<taxonomicName id="21D868CA5F191C9A6C1895E624F7B0CE" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="P. sericea" order="Rosales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="sericea">
<emphasis id="AE2BEBD2C24983A2C8B6D6A0CA6BD95F" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. sericea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(0.2-0.4 mm versus 0.7-1.0 mm) and longer inflorescences (13.0-20.4 cm) with more flowers (23-29) than 
<taxonomicName id="A0633177C7028A6985F7E472D570F683" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="P. sericea" order="Rosales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="sericea">
<emphasis id="1E50B6C4B2B83FBA8456A940EBD26655" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. sericea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(3.3-4.5 cm, 9-15 flowers). Additionally, 
<taxonomicName id="0B8C9AAA761886A315DE5111955F67A1" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="P. humboldtii" order="Rosales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="humboldtii">
<emphasis id="B889DA483539770750EFAE0A7BB438D0" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. humboldtii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
occurs in central Ecuadorean Andes, whereas 
<taxonomicName id="D9EFC1F1CE24D74298D9D2154196EE66" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="P. sericea" order="Rosales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="sericea">
<emphasis id="D08283482A7676CD9E02EFCE761D4FE0" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. sericea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is distributed from western Venezuela to central Colombia.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="2BF18AD9F6FC4B1B36A817DFD40F4210" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph id="47243AF85CEC6350E36B210AB3207ADC" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Specimens examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D611E1CDB47D00B8801E0E333A39CD6F" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<materialsCitation id="4E1A172DDAEC21E4ED51F7BDD6989377" collectingDate="2009-04-13" collectingDateMax="2013-07-11" collectingDateMin="2009-04-13" collectorName="de Atillo" country="Ecuador" county="Alausi" elevation="3300" latitude="-2.1333334" location="Lagunas de Atillo" longLatPrecision="1307" longitude="-78.566666" municipality="Achupallas" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Chimborazo">
<emphasis id="BBFC6475F81B414CB620115C1B4419EA" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<collectingCountry id="8023A3214CF2A09D391929A80EC1292A" name="Ecuador">Ecuador</collectingCountry>
. 
<collectingRegion id="C0ABA67B152D0567F5DA5C97B0CC8802" country="Ecuador" name="Chimborazo">Chimborazo</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: 
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<collectingCounty id="2D12055630CBED95D29373C1FB0310B6">Alausi</collectingCounty>
</normalizedToken>
, 
<collectingMunicipality id="2B3237BA841EA0DB53137A6B38C10722">Achupallas</collectingMunicipality>
, alrededores, 
<geoCoordinate id="47226127590AB7206254BE998E698C76" degrees="2" direction="south" minutes="17" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-2.2833333">2°17'S</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate id="342861B4E3FD73788627E51E0732E921" degrees="78" direction="west" minutes="39" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-78.65">78°39'W</geoCoordinate>
, 
<quantity id="DEBE137952E1F019530D0701A1972C30" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.3" unit="m" value="3300.0">
<elevation id="14A1F29F7870A2473EEA0362D495BDB0" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.3" unit="m" value="3300.0">3300 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
<collectingDate id="3659446D7D6FF7594DFC40D1768A68B2" value="2013-07-11">11 July 2013</collectingDate>
, 
<emphasis id="D6BC6FFD58B835A99A27704F3A632FBA" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Caranqui 2565</emphasis>
(QCA!); 
<location id="83A8893348A6E3484673CB69CAA86CA3" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:6C3831B83DF030A390BE368EB39441B4:83A8893348A6E3484673CB69CAA86CA3" country="Ecuador" county="Alausi" latitude="-2.1333334" longLatPrecision="1307" longitude="-78.566666" municipality="Achupallas" name="Lagunas de Atillo" stateProvince="Chimborazo">
Lagunas 
<collectorName id="DC04B27935EE8C5081ECA75C90D71F76">de Atillo</collectorName>
</location>
, 
<geoCoordinate id="B76DFF749216FB082DE82C085A50991D" degrees="2" direction="south" minutes="8" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-2.1333334">2°8'S</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate id="59F6AABB05C227B96F67E70EE951CE9E" degrees="78" direction="west" minutes="34" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-78.566666">78°34'W</geoCoordinate>
, 
<quantity id="49BFEDEE6D58C6014111ACD0FF6D88B6" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.465" unit="m" value="3465.0">
<elevation id="0BA1A2012444D549CE5EE4DC4074DF0D" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.465" unit="m" value="3465.0">3465 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
<collectingDate id="B5BB21A934337EB012FA88EB54D516CC" value="2009-04-13">13 April 2009</collectingDate>
, 
<emphasis id="EC83F63AE49069E9BF71BD8389CACDA4" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Carate et al. 184; 185; 188</emphasis>
(QCA!)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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