SALVIA CORIANA SP. NOV. (LAMIACEAE), A NEW SPECIES FROM A CLOUD FOREST IN WESTERN GUATEMALA

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by  Taylor Sultan Quedensley

CORIANA
SALVIA NOV. (LAMIACEAE),
SP.
NEW
A FROM A CLOUD WESTERN GUATEMALA
FOREST
SPECIES IN
Taylor Sultan Quedensley Mario V4!iz Perez
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mm
Upper corolla 0-1 2 long, lower short or n
4. lip lip
1
mm
Upper corolla 2.5-3 long, subbequal
4. lip
or
Corollas white, blue, purple.
.
mm
tube 4-8
Corolla long.
5.
mm
Calyx in flower 7-8 long, densely pubescent _
.
8. Corollas light purple; shrub pur
S.
—
and known
Distribution habitat. Salvia coriana is from only two adjacent localities at approximately 200C|
on
meters
the northwestern slopes of Pico Zunil. Pico Zunil (14°46'N; 91°27'W) a mountain with a
is
&
elevation of 3,542 meters (Williams
1960; Gall 1983; Quedensley Bragg 2007). Pico Zunil part of the|
is
Sierra Chuatroj range formed by
the Zunil ridge that extends from south to north perpendicular to the Pacific!
coast between the departments
of Quetzaltenango and Solola (Fig. The Sierra Chuatroj, located between
2).
Rio Samala to the west and Rio Nahuala km
to the east, is part of a volcanic belt that extends 120 from
south of Guatemala City to the Mexican border. The two
localities include the roadside to the hot springs
Aguas
Amargas, and through
trails dense forest with rocky outcrops above the hot springs. Associated trees
I
included
hippocastanum,
Billia Bocconia arborea, Leandra subseriata, Oreopanax Podacha-
xalapensis, O. peltatus, 1
enium
eminens, Urera caracasana, and Wigandia Shrubs
urens. included Alloispermum Aphelandra
integrifolium,
M
j
schiedeana, onochaetum and!
subtriplinervium, Montanoapteropoda,
Piptothrix areolaris, Tibouchina longisepala,
Common
Vemonia
arborescens. herbs were represented by Ageratum
rugosum, Fleischmannia pycnocephaloidesM
Heterocentron subtriplinervium, Nasa triphylla subsp. and
rudis, Salvia purpurea.
Phenology.—Observed
in flower in December and
late early January.
This
species appears be
to morphologically
related to Salvia recurva, but coriana a liana, the leaves!
S. is
are smaller, the upper and lower
corollas lips are shorter in length, and the corollas are blue. Salvia recurva!
has not been
yet reported from
the volcanic belt of Guatemala and in that country known only from th«J
is
Department &
Huehuetenango
of
elevations above 2500
at meters Morphology!
(Standley Williams
1970).
suggests
that Salvia coriana is in the subgenus Calosphace (Benth.) Benth., and within Dusenostachp M
the section
Epl. According and
to Standley Steyermark
45
(1946), species of Salvia are found in Guatemala, and 312 spe-
&
cies are located in adjacent Mexico (Ramamoorthy
Elliot 1993). Original included
coflections of coriana
S.
j
only two
individual plants at the two reported A
localities. return visit to the site in Dec 2009 revealed toj
the authors
a large population
of S. coriana above Aguas Amargas growing high up into cloud forest trees!
and
shrubs. Pico Zunil has been documented
to consist of relatively high numbers endemic Guatemalan!
of
and two
species,
so far (Ageratina
zunilensis: Asteraceae and
Stanmarkia Melastomataceae) are
spectabilis:
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considered be endemic &
to to the Sierra Chuatroj (Nash
Williams Almeda 2007)1
1976; Quedensley
1993;
More
work
field in the volcanic belt of Guatemala
required
is to illustrate the distribution of coriaM, 1
S.
especially
in the region
Pico
of Zunil.
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Municipio de Zunil: k SE N
j“ 5 of Xela, slopes of Pico Zunil dense cloud forest on trail
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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A. Flower, side view. B. Flower, front view (Photos by T.S. QuedensleyJ
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