identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03A36B42B658FFDBD998FA86C3A9F9AF.text	03A36B42B658FFDBD998FA86C3A9F9AF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Columnea (Collandra) skogii M. Amaya	<div><p>Columnea (Collandra) skogii M. Amaya, s p. nov.</p><p>TYPE: COLOMBIA. Santander: municipio Suaita, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.45&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=6.15" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.45/lat 6.15)">inspección de policía San José de Suaita, camino al bosque de la fundación San Cipriano</a> (6 ° 9’ N, 73 ° 27’ W), 1600 m alt., Nov. 8 1988, Galeano 6098 (holotype: COL). Figure 1.</p><p>A Columnea ericae Mansf. differt foliis loratis, floribus longe pedicellatis, bracteis minutis, corollis curtioribus cum, limbo subactinomorpho.</p><p>Suffrutescent vines; often branched; stem quadrangular, 0.2-0.5 cm diam., apically sericeous with 10-12 celled uniseriate trichomes, internodes 0.7-2 cm long. Leaves opposite, strongly anysophyllous in a pair, membranaceous; larger leaf sessile or shortly petiolate, petioles 0.1-0.3 cm long; blade asymmetrical, lorate 9.5- 18 x 1.2-3 cm, base oblique, apex attenuate, margin slightly serrate, adaxially green, densely sericeous with 8-10 celled trichomes and with sparsely distributed white unicellular setulose hairs; abaxially green or reddish with contrasting deep purple in the apical half or two third (2/3) of the leaf, sericeous with 5-celled trichomes, more densely packed on the veins, 8-9 veins on the larger side of the blade; smaller leaf sessile, blade asymmetrical, lanceolate 1- 2 x 0.3-0.7 cm, base oblique, apex attenuate, adaxially green, sericeous with 8 celled trichomes, veins obscure; abaxially golden sericeous with 5 celled trichomes. Inflorescence 1-2 flowers on the larger leaf axil; bracts 1-2, yellow, densely sericeous, lanceolate, 0.4- 1 x 0.2- 0.5 cm. Flower pedicelate, pedicel 3.5-5 cm long, densely sericeous. Calyx yellowgreenish; lobes 5, nearly free; lanceolate, 1.4-2.5 x 0.2-0.4 cm, margin dentate, two teeth each side, outside densely sericeous, inside glabrous. Corolla oblique in the calyx, yellow; cylindrical 3.5-3.7 cm long, constricted at the base 0.3 cm, 1 cm at the widest part in the upper half, constricted at the limb 0.7 cm; dorsally gibbous, gibbosity 0.4 x 0.5 cm; limb subactinomorphic slightly ampliate, lobes subequal 0.2-0.3 x 0.2 cm, deltoid apically obtuse or acute; outside pilose with 8-12 celled uniseriate hairs apically glandular, inside sparsely sericeous. Androecium of 4 stamens, fi laments 2.7- 4.5 cm long, glabrous, basally connate 0.3 cm of their length forming a staminal blade. Nectary one dorsal bidentate gland. Gynoecium with the ovary ovoid 0.7 x 0.3 cm, densely sericeous; style 2.8-3.5 cm long, glabrous; stigma bilobulated. Fruit a green ovoid berry, 1.5 x 1 cm. Seeds brown 1 x 1 mm, elliptically striated.</p><p>Etymology. The species is named after Laurence Edgar Skog to whom this species is dedicated in acknowledgment of his great contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the Neotropical Gesneriaceae .</p><p>Phenology: Flowers and fruits recorded in May and November. This species possibly produces flowers and fruits all year round as do many other columneas. The fruit color information comes from a specimen’s label which can lead to uncertainty about the fruit color at maturity.</p><p>Distribution. Columnea skogiiskogii is known only from the Andean forests in Colombia. The species was recorded on the East Cordillera at the Departament of Santander, between 1600-1900 m of elevation.</p><p>Representative specimens: COLOMBIA. Santander: Municipio de Suaita, corregimiento San José, Fundation San Cipriano, ca. 1650- 1900 m, May 16 1998, Betancur 7846 7846 (COL) ; Corregimiento de Virolín, vereda Corbaraque, sitio Costilla de Fara, 1900 m, Oct. 29 2008, Manjarrés 12 (UPTC) .</p><p>D i s t i nc t i ve fe at u r e s The species is distinguished from the similar C. ericae Mansf., and C. polyantha (Whieler) L. E. Skog by having the larger leaf in a pair lorate. Additional characters that help to distinguish C. skogii from those species are presented in Table 1.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A36B42B658FFDBD998FA86C3A9F9AF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Amaya-Márquez, Marisol	Amaya-Márquez, Marisol (2010): Una nueva especie de Columnea (Gesneriaceae) de la cordillera Oriental en los Andes colombianos. Caldasia 32, No. 1: 113-116, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15096660
