TWO NEW SPECIES OF PENTAGONIA (RUBIACEAE-HIPPOTIDEAE) FROM ECUADOR AND PERU

Resumen

Two new species of Pentagonia (Rubiaceae-Hippotideae), belonging to the group bearing entire leaves, with blades tapering and subsessile at the base and 5-lobed regular calyxes, are described herewith: Pentagonia bonifaziana, from the wet forests of the Mache-Chindul Reserve in northwestern Ecuador, and P. pachiteana, from the Amazonian lowlands of Pachitea, Peru.