IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77210390-1

Publication

Phytotaxa

Collation

446(3): 200

Date of Publication

27 May 2020

Family as entered in IPNI

Cucurbitaceae

Type Information

Collector Team

X. Cornejo 9182

Locality

Chimborazo: Cumandá, 4 km E, secondary wet forest, 400m

Collection Date

8 Feb 2018

Type Herbaria

holotype GUAY
isotype NY

Latitude

2° 12' S

Longitude

79° 7' W

Distribution Of Types

Ecuador (Western South America, Southern America)

Nomenclatural Notes

[epublished]

Remarks

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.446.3.4 The epithet honours Karen Stothert, as a recognition for her unsurpassed research on archaeology of Las Vegas, a preceramic culture in which the early use of Cucurbitaceae has been documented and that dates back to the beginning of the Holocene in coastal Ecuador.