identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
366B0CAEB31D5E23B406F64F4524CBA3.text	366B0CAEB31D5E23B406F64F4524CBA3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Napeanthus decurrens J. L. Clark 2026	<div><p>Napeanthus decurrens J. L. Clark sp. nov.</p><p>Fig. 1</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Similar to Napeanthus loretensis L. E. Skog in its small (&lt;9 cm long), decurrent leaves, but N. decurrens is distinguished by entire leaf margins and erect inflorescences (vs. serrate leaf margins and prostrate inflorescences in N. loretensis).</p><p>Type.</p><p>Ecuador. Zamora-Chinchipe • Cantón Nangaritza, Laberinto de las Mil Ilusiones, 1–2 km east of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-78.65945&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-4.248333" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -78.65945/lat -4.248333)">Río Numpatakayma</a>, 4°14'54"S, 78°39'34"W, 1000 m, 14 May 2009, J. L. Clark 10808 (holotype, SEL [barcode SEL 069589]!; isotypes, ECUAMZ, MO, QCNE, US [barcode 01921756]!) .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Terrestrial or lithophytic herb with leaves in a basal rosette. Leaves opposite, equal within a pair, appearing sessile due to the blade being decurrent along the petiole; blades spathulate to broadly obovate, 2–9 × 0.5–2 cm, coriaceous, glabrous, adaxially green, abaxially red to green suffused with red; apex acute; margins entire; secondary veins 3–5 pairs. Inflorescences erect, 2–5 cm long, usually bearing 1–2 pairs of leafy bracts subtending the pedicels. Flowers nearly actinomorphic and erect at maturity. Calyx green, glabrous externally and internally; lobes 5, nearly free, fused at the base for 1–2 mm; valvate in bud and spreading at anthesis; lobes nearly equal, broadly oblong with acuminate apices, 3.5–4.5 × 0.5–2.3 mm. Corolla actinomorphic; tube nearly truncate at maturity; lobes deeply divided and nearly free, uniformly white to white suffused with blue; lobes broadly oblong, 5–9 × 3–5 mm; corolla diameter up to 15 mm. Androecium of 4 erect stamens adnate to the base of the corolla tube; filaments flattened, ca. 3 mm long, white, glabrous; anthers often coherent when immature and spreading at maturity, oblong, dehiscing longitudinally, 1.2–1.4 × 1.2–1.3 mm. Gynoecium of a superior, broadly oblong ovary, 2.0 mm wide at base; style stout, included, ca. 3 mm long; stigma stomatomorphic. Fruits not observed.</p><p>Additional specimens examined.</p><p>Ecuador. Zamora-Chinchipe • Cantón Nangaritza, parroquia Nuevo Paraíso, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-78.65945&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-4.248333" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -78.65945/lat -4.248333)">Laberinto de Las Mil Ilusiones, 1–2 km east of Río Numpatakayma</a>, 4°14'54"S, 78°39'34"W, 1001 m, 6 Mar 2017, J. L. Clark, J. A. Mayr &amp; D. A. Neill 15074 (E, ECUAMZ, F, G, MO, MT, NY, QCA, SEL, US) ; • Cantón Nangaritza, parroquia Nuevo Paraiso, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-78.661&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-4.3672223" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -78.661/lat -4.3672223)">Laberinto de Las Mil Ilusiones, 1–2 km east of Río Numpatakayma</a>, 4°22'2"S, 78°39'39.6"W, 1000 m, 5 Mar 2018, J. L. Clark 15569 (ECUAMZ, MO, QCA, SEL, US) ; • Cantón Nangaritza, parroquia Nuevo Paraiso, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-78.661&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-4.3672223" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -78.661/lat -4.3672223)">Laberinto de Las Mil Ilusiones, 1–2 km east of Río Numpatakayma</a>, 4°22'2"S, 78°39'39.6"W, 1000 m, 11 Mar 2019, J. L. Clark &amp; A. Wilcox 16255 (ECUAMZ, QCA, SEL) .</p><p>Phenology.</p><p>Collected with flowers in March and May.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The specific epithet decurrens refers to the leaf blades that are decurrent along the petiole, giving the leaves a nearly sessile appearance.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Napeanthus decurrens is currently known only from the type locality in Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Ecuador, near the Río Numpatakayma, a tributary of the Río Nangaritza. The area, known locally as the Laberinto de las Mil Ilusiones, is characterized by maze-like sandstone rock formations reaching up to ca. 20 m in height. The site is privately managed and accessible primarily by boat, and it is visited by tourists and naturalists staying at nearby Cabañas Yankuam.</p><p>Comments.</p><p>The combination of small stature (Fig. 1), erect inflorescences (Fig. 1 F), and entire leaf margins (Fig. 1 A) readily distinguishes Napeanthus decurrens from all other congeners. Most individuals were found growing as lithophytes on limestone rocks. The leaves form a compact basal rosette, as in most Napeanthus, but in this species the plants appear acaulescent (Fig. 1 B, F). The undersurfaces of the leaves are typically red, a coloration that is unusual in Napeanthus, where most species have uniformly green leaves. Rarely, the leaves of N. decurrens are entirely green or green suffused with red. Another morphologically similar species is N. loretensis (Skog 1974), but N. decurrens differs by entire leaf margins (Fig. 1 A) and erect inflorescences (Fig. 1 F). In contrast, N. loretensis has serrate leaf margins, and prostrate inflorescences.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/366B0CAEB31D5E23B406F64F4524CBA3	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.		Pensoft via Plazi	Clark, John L.	Clark, John L. (2026): Taxonomic notes on Napeanthus (Gesneriaceae) in Ecuador: neotypification of two species and a new species from the eastern Andean slopes. PhytoKeys 273: 161-169, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.273.189993
113B6A3729A056BB9E93E06A26177C8C.text	113B6A3729A056BB9E93E06A26177C8C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Napeanthus ecuadorensis Fritsch	<div><p>Napeanthus ecuadorensis Fritsch, Akad. Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber., Math. Naturwiss. Kl., Abt. 1, 134: 125–126 (1925).</p><p>Fig. 2</p><p>Holotype.</p><p>Ecuador • serus fl. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-79.18956&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-0.47725" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -79.18956/lat -0.47725)">Peripae [upper Río Peripá basin or western Andean foothills near Santo Domingo]</a>, 350 m, Aug 1882, L. Sodiro 119 / 57 (B, destroyed) ; neotype designated here: Ecuador • Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, 0°28'38.1"S, 79°11'22.4"W, 560–600 m, 12 Jul 2022, J. L. Clark, L. Hooge, C. Restrepo, R. Clark &amp; E. Muñoz 16775 (neotype: QCA!; isoneotypes: AAU, BM, BRIT, E, F, FLAS, G, MO, NY, QCA, SEL, US).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>A Sodiro specimen at the Universidad Central del Ecuador (Q) bears the same collection number cited in the protologue; however, that specimen is from a higher elevation and dated October 1882. In contrast, the protologue indicates August 1882 and an elevation of 350 m, which is consistent with material commonly collected throughout the environs of Santo Domingo in western Ecuador where Sodiro frequently worked. There are several specimens from the Herbario Padre Luis Sodiro (QPLS) that are conspecific with N. ecuadorensis, but none of them correspond to the locality information and dates from the protologue (Fritsch 1925).</p><p>Leaves of Napeanthus ecuadorensis are bullate (Fig. 2 A), and the inflorescences are erect or prostrate (Fig. 2 F). Another vegetatively distinctive feature is the blade broadly decurrent along the petiole, giving the leaves a broadly spathulate appearance (Fig. 2 A). The inflorescences are fewer-flowered and markedly shorter than those of N. robustus (Fig. 3), typically less than 20 cm long, whereas those of N. robustus often exceed 90 cm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/113B6A3729A056BB9E93E06A26177C8C	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.		Pensoft via Plazi	Clark, John L.	Clark, John L. (2026): Taxonomic notes on Napeanthus (Gesneriaceae) in Ecuador: neotypification of two species and a new species from the eastern Andean slopes. PhytoKeys 273: 161-169, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.273.189993
D25D33F0A4B75BE09AC911827A06934A.text	D25D33F0A4B75BE09AC911827A06934A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Napeanthus robustus Fritsch	<div><p>Napeanthus robustus Fritsch, Akad. Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber., Math. Naturwiss. Kl., Abt. 1, 134: 122–123 (1925).</p><p>Fig. 3</p><p>Holotype.</p><p>Ecuador • in silvis tropicis prope S. Domingo [tropical forests near <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-79.18345&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-0.48705554" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -79.18345/lat -0.48705554)">Santo Domingo</a>], 360 m, Aug 1875, L. Sodiro 119 / 58 (B, destroyed) ; neotype designated here: Ecuador • Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, 0°29'13.4"S, 79°11'0.4"W, 840–850 m, 13 Jul 2022, J. L. Clark, L. Hooge, C. Restrepo, R. Clark &amp; N. Zapata 16831 (neotype: QCA!; isoneotypes: MO, NY, QCA, SEL [barcode: SEL 091047]!, US).</p><p>Comments.</p><p>This is one of the most frequently collected species of Napeanthus in western Ecuador and is relatively large. Fritsch (1925) noted that it was the most robust and largest species of Napeanthus known at the time, consistent with field observations, particularly in the vicinity of Santo Domingo where N. robustus and N. ecuadorensis occur sympatrically. Sodiro frequently collected near Santo Domingo, where this species remains common in shaded forests. There are several specimens from the Herbario Padre Luis Sodiro (QPLS) that are conspecific with N. robustus, but none of them correspond to the locality information and dates from the protologue (Fritsch 1925).</p><p>The leaves are large, slightly decurrent along the petiole, with a well-defined petiole and obovate blades, matching the description provided in the protologue (Fritsch 1925). One of the most distinctive features of this taxon is the elongate inflorescences that grow prostrate along the forest floor. These inflorescences often exceed 80 cm in length — more than twice the height of the plant (Fig. 3 E) — and are frequently concealed in the understory but readily observed during specimen collection.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D25D33F0A4B75BE09AC911827A06934A	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.		Pensoft via Plazi	Clark, John L.	Clark, John L. (2026): Taxonomic notes on Napeanthus (Gesneriaceae) in Ecuador: neotypification of two species and a new species from the eastern Andean slopes. PhytoKeys 273: 161-169, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.273.189993
