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New species of Geonoma (Palmae) from Ecuador

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Five new species of Geonoma from Ecuador, G. awaensis, G. ecuadoriensis, G. hollinensis, G. lanata, and G. skovii, are described and illustrated and are compared to similar species. Their distributions are mapped.

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Acknowledgments

This paper was written during Henderson’s visit to AAU in the summer of 2006, which was generously funded by the University of Aarhus Research Foundation. Palm research at AAU is supported by a grant from the Danish Natural Science Research Council to Henrik Balslev (#272–06–0476). We thank the curators of AAU, K, MO, QCA, QCNE, and NY for making specimens available for study, Dr. Rodrigo Bernal for information on Colombian Geonoma, Dr. Lúcia Kawasaki for the Latin translations, and Bobbi Angell for the illustrations.

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  1. The New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street & Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY, 10458–51216, USA

    Andrew Henderson

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade building 1540, DK 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Finn Borchsenius & Henrik Balslev

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Henderson, A., Borchsenius, F. & Balslev, H. New species of Geonoma (Palmae) from Ecuador. Brittonia 60, 190–201 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-008-9032-1

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