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section Viola sect. Andinium W. Becker
Viola beati J.M. Watson & A.R. Flores
Viola beati J.M. Watson & A.R. Flores
Distributional Range: Native Southern America : Argentina (Belén, Catamarca Province)
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Distribution and ecology — Apparently endemic to high ridges to the north of Belén, Catamarca Province, Argentina as one small population of a few individuals in exposed sandy to loose, gravelly ground at the foot of a hillslope at 3400 m
Eponymy — The epithet commemorates and honours the late Dr Beat Leuenberger, who was a botanist at the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin and husband of the present author Silvia ArroyoLeuenberger. He is the first and so far only person to have found this species
References:
Watson J.M., Flores A.R. & Arroyo-Leuenberger S. (2019) A new Viola (Violaceae) from the Argentinian Andes. Willdenowia 49(1); 35-41. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.49.49105
Viola beati, holotype specimen – A: lateral view of whole aerial formation of plant; B: flower in natural position among foliage; C: lateral view of flower showing strong navicular conduplication of lowermost petal; note also atypical size imbalance between that and higher four petals; D: frontal view of flower opened and flattened, resulting in splitting and separation of lowermost petal sides; E: basal stamens, connectives (yellow), apex of style, and lateral lobes of style crest directed forward and covering stigma; F: lateral view of immature seed.
Locality and environment of Viola beati – Bottom: general situation on pass to north-northeast of Villavil, Catamarca, Argentina at 3400 m, 20 Feb 1994; Down: same area as A, showing vegetation with sandy clearings as habitat of V. beati, 20 Feb 1994.
Known distribution of Viola beati (red circle) in southern cone of South America. Coordinates are distorted by projection curvature and angle of alignment of map
Viola beati type locality (red circle) in Catamarca Province, Argentina, with area containing type locality of V. singularis (cyan ellipse)
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