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<mods:namePart>Pino Infante, Guillermo Eloy</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Alomia Collazos, Luis Enrique Aaron</mods:namePart>
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14. 
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Peperomia sagasteguii Pino, Samain &amp; L.E. 
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Peperomia sagasteguii Pino, Samain &amp; L. E. Alomia, sp. nov. A plant in habitat in the dry period B plant ex situ in anthesis C plant in habitat with inflorescences D detail of the leaves E comparison of P. sagasteguii and P. trinervis at the beginning of anthesis F detail of immature spadix G mature spadix showing long pedicels and fruits. (Details: Above, mature fruit; Below, fruit standing on long pedicel)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.225.99277.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/839980" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Fig. 9A-G</figureCitation>
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, dept. 
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, prov. 
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, dist. 
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: 
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, 1 
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above, on the path to 
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&amp; 
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A. 
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4315a
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Pino, Samain &amp; L.E. 
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, sp. nov. 
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plant in habitat in the dry period 
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plant 
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in anthesis 
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plant in habitat with inflorescences 
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detail of the leaves 
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comparison of 
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and 
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at the beginning of anthesis 
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detail of immature spadix 
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mature spadix showing long pedicels and fruits. (Details: Above, mature fruit; Below, fruit standing on long pedicel).
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Perennial, semi-succulent, terrestrial, epiphytic, or saxicolous herb similar to 
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, differs in stems more pubescent, dark red to olive green instead of bright red, leaves with a longer and wider petiole (7-17 long 
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1.8-2 wide compared to 3-10 long 
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1.2-1.5 wide), lamina more succulent, green adaxially and light green-pinkish abaxially instead of olive green with gray nerves adaxially and red-purple abaxially; spadices longer (4-20 cm compared to 10 cm long), but narrower.
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Perennial, semi-succulent, terrestrial, epiphytic, or saxicolous 
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, living in the shade of other plants, 10-30 cm tall, up to 45 cm tall when flowering. Roots fibrous, around 1 mm diam., transparent-reddish, 2-6 cm long, emerging from basal nodes and stolons. 
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stoloniferous at the base, then assurgent, thicker below, straight erect, terete, dark red to olive green, 0.4-0.6 cm diam. at the base, gradually tapering to 1.4-1.6 mm at the apex, readily branched alternately, internodes 2.5-3 cm at the base gradually descending to 0.8-1 cm towards the apex, surface crisp-pubescent, trichomes whitish, around 0.5 mm long at base, slightly shorter upwards. 
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5-9, irregularly alternate, sometimes pseudo-opposite below, emerging almost horizontally mainly from the distal half, 7-15 cm long in the vegetative state. 
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alternate, elliptic, elliptic obovate to subrotundate; petiole terete, same surface and color as stem, 0.7-1.7 cm long, 1.8-2 mm wide, slightly channeled above; lamina slightly convex to flat, 2.5-4 cm long, 1-2 mm thick, 1.6-2.8 cm wide, apex acute to attenuately subacuminate, base cuneate to sub truncate; adaxially bright glossy green, convex, 3-palmatinerved, nerves depressed; margin entire; abaxially pale green to pinkish, 3-palmatinerved, nerves elevated. Young leaves can be pinkish adaxially. Both sides are puberulous. 
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terminal in an umbel of 1-3 spadices and sometimes 1-2 individual spadices from upper leaf nodes, umbel with 1-3 basal bracts at the base and lateral spadices with opposite bracts at base similar to leaves but much smaller; 
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terete, light green, 4-6 mm long, 1.2-1.8 mm diam.; 
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4-15 (-20) cm long, 1.5-1.7 mm diam., light green. 
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broadly oval to round, light green, flat, almost inconspicuous, 0.35-0.45 
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0.30-0.40 mm. 
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, filaments short, anthers white ovoid, 0.3 
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0.4 mm. 
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globose berry, borne on a 1-1.5 mm long, 0.25-0.3 mm diam. narrow-conical transparent pedicel; 0.7-0.8 mm long, 0.6-0.7 mm diam., brown, covered in white 0.05 mm long whitish papillae up to distal third of fruit, style conical, light brown, 0.15-0.2 mm long, 0.20-0.25 mm diam.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
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Plants have only been found from 1200 to 1500 m of the middle course of the 
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River valley, in the remnants of montane forest, epiphytic or on rocks, always in shaded places. 
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is endemic to the 
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River valley.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Phenology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Inflorescences appear from October to November; fruits ripen from January to March.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Etymology.</paragraph>
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This species is dedicated to Abundio 
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(1932-2012), collector of the type, a notable botanist, who worked at both Universidad Nacional de Trujillo and Universidad Privada Antonio Orrego, author of many books and articles, director of the journals &quot;Bulletin of the Society of Botany of the UNT&quot; and 
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, author of four genera and 97 species (
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and 
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2012
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Notes.</paragraph>
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Most collections were determined initially as 
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Ruiz &amp; Pav., a species that seems to be very close, (see Table 
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). The main differences are stem color, which is dull dark red and greenish in 
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compared to the bright red of 
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. The indumentum of 
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seems to be denser and longer, like that of 
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. Leaf petioles of 
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are shorter and of similar color to its stems. The leaf color of 
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is bright green adaxially with depressed nerves, while 
<taxonomicName lsidName="P. trinervis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="trinervis">
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has a high color contrast between the dark olive green and the bright silver gray of the nerves. Abaxially leaf color of 
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is light green, while 
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is dark red with light green nerves. 
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has thicker, more succulent leaves. Finally, spadices of 
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are much longer. The type collection was determined initially as 
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(Jacq.) Kunth, which bears no similarity and later it was determined as 
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Kunth by R. Callejas, but this sample lacks the constant decussate leaves and inflorescences characteristic of that species. Some branches and leaves can be pseudo-opposite by shortening of the stem, leading to this confusion.
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Comparison of the main differences between 
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<taxonomicName lsidName="P. trinervis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="trinervis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. trinervis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Data of 
<taxonomicName lsidName="P. trinervis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="trinervis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. trinervis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
taken from 
<bibRefCitation author="Trelease, W" journalOrPublisher="University of Illinois Press, Urbana" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="442 - 837" refId="B35" refString="Trelease, W, Yuncker, T, 1950. The Piperaceae of Northern South America. University of Illinois Press, Urbana 2: 442 - 837" title="The Piperaceae of Northern South America." volume="2" year="1950">Trelease and Yuncker (1950)</bibRefCitation>
and from live cultivated plants.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<table pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<th colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Features</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="P. sagasteguii" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="sagasteguii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. sagasteguii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="P. trinervis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="trinervis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. trinervis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
</th>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Height (cm)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">10-30 (-45)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">20-25 or more</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Internodes (in cm)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">2.5-3 below, 0.8-1 above</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">2-3 below, 1 above</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Stem (in mm)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">4-6 diam. at the base, gradually tapering to 1.4-1.6</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">4-6 diam. at the base, gradually tapering to 1.5-2</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Stem (color)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Dull dark red to olive green</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Bright dark red</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Leaf (petiole in mm)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">7-17 long, 1.8-2 wide</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">3-10 long, 1.2-1.5 wide</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Leaf (shape)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Elliptic, elliptic obovate to subrotundate.</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Elliptic, elliptic obovate or elliptic obovate.</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Leaf (measure)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">2.5-4 cm long, 1-2 mm thick, 1.6-2.8 cm wide</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">2-3.5 cm long, less than 1 mm thick, 1.2-2.5 cm wide.</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Leaf (color)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Adaxially bright glossy green, abaxially pale green to pinkish. Young leaves can be pinkish adaxially</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Adaxially dark olive green with nerves in gray, abaxially bright dark red, nerves in light green. Young leaves can be purplish</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Inflorescence</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Terminal in an umbel of 1-3 spadices and sometimes 1-2 individual spadices from upper leaf nodes</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Terminal and from the upper nodes.</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">Rachis of the spadix</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">4-15 (-20) cm long, 1.5-1.7 mm diam.</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rowspan="1">10 cm long, 1.8-2 mm diam.</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
This species belongs to 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Piperaceae" genus="Peperomia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Peperomia (Micropiper) subsp. subg." order="Piperales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Micropiper">Peperomia subg. Micropiper</taxonomicName>
(Miq.) Miq. (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.12705/643.4" author="Frenzke, L" journalOrPublisher="Taxon" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="424 - 444" refId="B10" refString="Frenzke, L, Scheiris, E, Pino, G, Symmank, L, Goetghebeur, P, Neinhuis, C, Wanke, S, Samain, MS, 2015. A revised infrageneric classification of the genus Peperomia Ruiz &amp; Pav. (Piperaceae). Taxon 64 (3): 424 - 444, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12705/643.4" title="A revised infrageneric classification of the genus Peperomia Ruiz &amp; Pav. (Piperaceae)." url="https://doi.org/10.12705/643.4" volume="64" year="2015">Frenzke et al. 2015</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Additional specimens examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<materialsCitation accessionNumber="USM 90066" collectingDate="1986-03-22" collectingDateMax="2023-02-10" collectingDateMin="1986-03-22" collectorName="S. Leyva, Prov., La Florida, Buenos Aires, de Guaba, S. Llatas Quiroz, R. Palacios, Road, Monteseco, G. Pino, L. E. Alomia, Niepos, Monte Seco, Naranjo, G. Mathieu, L. Symmank, Same" country="Peru" county="Catache" elevation="1500" latitude="-6.890278" location="Bosque Monteseco" longLatPrecision="21" longitude="-79.11583" municipality="Alrededor" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Cajamarca">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<collectingCountry name="Peru">Peru</collectingCountry>
, dept. 
<collectingRegion country="Peru" name="Cajamarca">Cajamarca</collectingRegion>
, prov. 
<collectingRegion country="Peru" name="Santa Cruz">Santa Cruz</collectingRegion>
, dist. 
<collectingCounty>Catache</collectingCounty>
</emphasis>
: 
<collectingMunicipality>Alrededor</collectingMunicipality>
de campamento, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:62EC15CCF71750548C6AE3F726595B43:7110CFD5C38BB7B6EC467D9ECD3342F8" country="Peru" county="Catache" latitude="-6.890278" longLatPrecision="21" longitude="-79.11583" municipality="Alrededor" name="Bosque Monteseco" stateProvince="Cajamarca">Bosque Monteseco</location>
, borde de trocha sobre troncos secos [Around the campsite, Monteseco Forest, border of track, on dry logs] 
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.5" unit="m" value="1500.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.5" unit="m" value="1500.0">1500 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, [
<geoCoordinate degrees="06" direction="south" minutes="50" orientation="latitude" precision="1" seconds="58.6" value="-6.8496113">06°50'58.6&quot;S</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="79" direction="west" minutes="05" orientation="longitude" precision="1" seconds="53.7" value="-79.09825">79°05'53.7&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
], 
<collectingDate value="1989-01-20">20 Jan 1989</collectingDate>
, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<collectorName>S. Leyva</collectorName>
G. 015
</emphasis>
(F 2016269, 
<accessionNumber httpUri="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/USM90066">USM 90066</accessionNumber>
) 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<collectorName>Prov.</collectorName>
<collectingRegion country="Peru" name="San Miguel">San Miguel</collectingRegion>
, dist. 
<collectorName>La Florida</collectorName>
</emphasis>
: 
<collectorName>Buenos Aires</collectorName>
, 
<collectorName>La Florida</collectorName>
, sobre troncos 
<collectorName>de Guaba</collectorName>
[on trunks of 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Inga" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Inga" order="Fabales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Inga</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp.] 
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.0" unit="m" value="1000.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.0" unit="m" value="1000.0">1000 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, [
<geoCoordinate degrees="06" direction="south" minutes="52" orientation="latitude" precision="1" seconds="27.3" value="-6.87425">06°52'27.3&quot;S</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="79" direction="west" minutes="07" orientation="longitude" precision="15" seconds="10" value="-79.119446">79°07'10&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
], 
<collectingDate value="1986-03-22">22 Mar 1986</collectingDate>
, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<collectorName>S. Llatas Quiroz</collectorName>
&amp; 
<collectorName>R. Palacios</collectorName>
1822
</emphasis>
(F 1963941). 
<collectorName>Road</collectorName>
from 
<collectorName>La Florida</collectorName>
to 
<collectorName>Monteseco</collectorName>
, just before entering the reserved zone, 
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.531" unit="m" value="1531.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.531" unit="m" value="1531.0">1531 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="6" direction="south" minutes="51" orientation="latitude" precision="1" seconds="00.7" value="-6.8501945">6°51'00.7&quot;S</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="79" direction="west" minutes="05" orientation="longitude" precision="1" seconds="58.2" value="-79.0995">79°05'58.2&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, 
<collectingDate value="2023-02-10">10 Feb 2023</collectingDate>
, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<collectorName>G. Pino</collectorName>
&amp; 
<collectorName>
L.E. 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Alomía">Alomia</normalizedToken>
</collectorName>
3831
</emphasis>
(USM 333270). 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
dist. 
<collectorName>Niepos</collectorName>
</emphasis>
: 
<collectorName>Road</collectorName>
from 
<collectorName>La Florida</collectorName>
to 
<collectorName>Monte Seco</collectorName>
(
<collectorName>Naranjo</collectorName>
), 
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.8" unit="km" value="5.8">5.8 km</quantity>
from 
<collectorName>La Florida</collectorName>
, 
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.395" unit="m" value="1395.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.395" unit="m" value="1395.0">1395 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="06" direction="south" minutes="53" orientation="latitude" precision="1" seconds="25.5" value="-6.8904166">06°53'25.5&quot;S</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="79" direction="west" minutes="06" orientation="longitude" precision="1" seconds="57.3" value="-79.11591">79°06'57.3&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, 
<collectingDate value="2009-03-01">1 Mar 2009</collectingDate>
, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<collectorName>G. Mathieu</collectorName>
&amp; 
<collectorName>L. Symmank</collectorName>
163
</emphasis>
(USM); 
<collectorName>Road</collectorName>
from 
<collectorName>La Florida</collectorName>
to 
<collectorName>Niepos</collectorName>
, 
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.297" unit="m" value="1297.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.297" unit="m" value="1297.0">1297 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="06" direction="south" minutes="53" orientation="latitude" precision="1" seconds="06.9" value="-6.88525">06°53'06.9&quot;S</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="79" direction="west" minutes="06" orientation="longitude" precision="1" seconds="47.6" value="-79.11322">79°06'47.6&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, 
<collectingDate value="2022-08-28">28 Aug 2022</collectingDate>
, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<collectorName>G. Pino</collectorName>
et al. 3641
</emphasis>
(USM 333268); 
<collectorName>Same</collectorName>
road, 
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.393" unit="m" value="1393.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.393" unit="m" value="1393.0">1393 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="06" direction="south" minutes="53" orientation="latitude" precision="15" seconds="25" value="-6.890278">06°53'25&quot;S</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="79" direction="west" minutes="06" orientation="longitude" precision="15" seconds="57" value="-79.11583">79°06'57&quot;W</geoCoordinate>
, 
<collectingDate value="2022-08-28">28 Aug 2022</collectingDate>
, 
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<collectorName>G. Pino</collectorName>
et al. 3644
</emphasis>
(USM 333269)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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