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<mods:titleid="F85C474D3C762A4AC52E041A6E46523A">Glossoloma wiehlerii (Gesneriaceae), a new species from the northwestern Andes of Ecuador</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="9F9B07CCE8A4A6AAA50F69FBD91D739A">Science Department, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. U. S. A.</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="3C21F28C44D62F82C1370B30AB79F76B">Area de Investigacion y Monitoreo de Avifauna, Aves y Conservacion - BirdLife en Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador & Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Herbario Nacional del Ecuador QCNE, Quito, Ecuador.</mods:affiliation>
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. Differs from all other congeners by the presence of elongate scandent shoots that exceed four meters in length, coriaceous leaves that are velutinous on lower surface, and a corolla tube that is broadly ampliate on the dorsal surface.
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. Scandent subshrub with elongate horizontal shoots, sparingly branched, to 4 m long, to 1.5 cm in diameter, subwoody; internodes 3.8-8 cm long, subquandrangular, brown velutinous. Leaves opposite, isophyllous, coriaceous; blade symmetric, ovate to broadly ovate, 9.3-12.5
5-6.7 cm, base truncate to slightly cordate, apex acute, margin serrulate, adaxially light green, densely pilose, abaxially uniformly dark red to green with red venation, densely villous, lateral veins 6-9, primary and secondary veins occasionally red. Inflorescence reduced to a single axillary flower (rarely 2-3); peduncles absent or highly reduced (<2 mm); bracts absent or caducous, 2
3 mm. Flowers resupinate, subtended by elongate pedicels, 1.2-4.5 cm long, densely pilose, oriented horizontal relative to shoot, becoming more pendent during anthesis; calyx lobes 5, nearly free, mostly equal in size and shape, dorsal lobe slightly smaller, lobes appressed to flower when immature and spreading during anthesis, mostly green with red margins, 1.6-3.0
1.0-1.3 cm, broadly ovate, apex acute to acuminate, margin with 5-10 deep serrations (ca. 4 mm long teeth), densely pilose on both surfaces; corolla tubular, broadly ampliate on dorsal surface (not ampliate on ventral surface), posture horizontal relative to calyx, corolla tube 2.4-2.6 cm long, outer surface densely pilose, uniformly bright yellow on the inside and white suffused with yellow on the outside, lobes 3-5
4-6 mm. Androecium of 4 stamens, filaments connate at the base and forming a filament curtain for 3-4 mm, free portion of filaments 2-2.5 cm long, glabrous; anthers longer than broad, ca. 2
. The specific epithet is in reference to Hans Wiehler (1930-2003). Wiehler was a practicing Mennonite from East Prussia (now Poland) and immigrated to the USA in the 1950s. He attained a
. Wiehler was one of the first botanists hired by the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens where he served as the associate editor and business manager of the
(1975-1981). He left Selby in 1982 and established the Gesneriad Research Foundation (GRF) in Sarasota, Florida where he directed annual seminars that were attended by horticulturists, taxonomists, students and plant enthusiasts. Wiehler also organized and directed 14 study trips to South and Central America, including the 1993 expedition that resulted in the discovery of
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is endemic to the Pichincha Province on the western slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes and is known from three localities. The type locality is the old highway between Quito and Santo Domingo (via Chiriboga). In 2020, Tobar located an extant population of
National Herbarium (US). During that time, Schuetz was a graduate student at the Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID) and was completing research for his
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were not deposited at the Idaho Museum of Natural History (IDS). A third population was documented by Tobar in 2019 from the Bosque Protector Pacaya, a Reserve that is managed by the community Alaspungo. Bosque Protector Pacaya is adjacent to El Pahuma Orchid Reserve (Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation). The forests in Bosque Protector Pacaya are mostly above 3,000 meters and the forests in El Pahuma Orchid Reserve are mostly below 3,000 meters. It is likely that populations of
are limited to forests above 3,000 meters and that is why it has not been documented in the lower elevation forests of El Pahuma Orchid Reserve. According to the IUCN Red List Criteria (
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) for limited geographic range (B1 = EOO <5,000 km2) and associated subcriteria, including occurrence at less than five locations (B2a) and continuing decline of Andean forests (B2b),
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