Conspectus of the Genus Palicourea (Rubiaceae: Psychotrieae) with the Description of Some New Species from Ecuador and Colombia

Resumen

Palicourea Aublet comprises about 200 species of shrubs and small trees found throughout the moist and wet Neotropics.This genus is eripe onim маг кин of the corolla that apparently represent adaptations for pollination by hummingbirds and seems to be a me of a hummingbird-pollinated group closely rela ted to Psychotria subg.Heteropsychotria, which is она check pollinated.зар recor geese classification + is proposed here for 188 species, fcatinn based largely on Characters of the stipules an centered in Amazonia, and -52 iun in ur sections, and the other generally middle to high 'elevation, pollination, together with habitat diversity, distyly, and variation among loc isolation.ollowing new combinations and comprising 136 species in five sections.Several in some cases different su istinctive features shared by ttern bgenera are noted.s suggest that ocal populations leading to their reproductive are made: Palicourea sect.Corymbiferae (МИП.Arg.)