Abstract

GONZALEZ, Favio  and  PABON-MORA, Natalia. Floristic novelties for the Sanctuary of Fauna and Flora of Iguaque and its areas of influence as the sole protected area of the Ricaurte province (Boyacá, Colombia). Caldasia [online]. 2022, vol.44, n.2, pp.260-273.  Epub May 23, 2023. ISSN 0366-5232.  https://doi.org/10.15446/caldasia.v44n2.88105.

The flora of the Sanctuary of Fauna and Flora of Iguaque, the sole protected area in the Ricaurte Province, Boyacá, Colombia, represents the extraordinary floristic diversity of the Colombian Eastern Cordillera. Our first goal consists in adding 88 novelties for this regional flora, including eleven species of Lycophyta and Monilophyta and 77 species of Angiospermae, based on herbarium and field work, and recent literature review. New records of Cactaceae, Cleomaceae, Cornaceae, Monimiaceae, Osmun-daceae, Phrymaceae, Rosaceae, Woodsiaceae, and Xyridaceae stand out. Burmeistera glabrata (Cam-panulaceae), Cornus peruviana (Cornaceae) and Nothoscordum gracile (Amaryllidaceae) are novel reports for the department of Boyacá. The endemic taxa Melpomene anazalea (Polypodiaceae), Piper daniel-gonzalezii var. moniquiranum (Piperaceae), Masdevallia aenigma and Stelis boyacensis (Or-chidaceae), and Espeletia cayetana and E. raquirensis (Asteraceae) are threatened. Our second goal is to update the nomenclature of 31 binomials, seven of them, from the families Acanthaceae, Asteraceae, Crassulaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Poaceae and Rosaceae, with uncertain taxonomic status. Our work will allow the updating of the following taxa in the Herbario Nacional Colombiano and in the process of cataloguing the Flora of Colombia: at a genus level, Bartsia, Blechnum, Cheilanthes, Chenopodium, Cleome, Cordia, Diplostephium, Habracanthus, Hyptis, Lycopodium, Schefflera, Terpsichore, and Vasquezia; and at a species level, Melpomene anazalea, Opuntia soederstromiana, Rubus alutaceus, Spilotantha amanda, Stelis alleyoop, S. angustifolia, S. boyacensis, and S. pleistantha.

Keywords : Alto Ricaurte Province; biodiversity; Colombia; Eastern Cordillera; Flora of Boyacá.

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