Una Especie Nueva de Hippeastrum (Amaryllidaceae) de los Bosques Secos Yungueños de Bolivia

Araceli Laura Moya Huanca; David Villalba Vargas; Freddy Santiago Zenteno-Ruiz

doi:10.3417/2022703

Araceli Laura Moya Huanca Herbario Nacional de Bolivia
David Villalba Vargas Herbario Nacional de Bolivia
Freddy Santiago Zenteno-Ruiz Herbario Nacional de Bolivia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3417/2022703

Keywords: Amaryllidaceae, Bolivia, dry forest, endemism, Hippeastrum, Yungas

Abstract

A new species of Hippeastrum Herb. (Amaryllidaceae), H. lara-ricoi L. Moya, D. Villalba & Zent.-Ruiz, is described and illustrated. It is a perennial-bulbous geophyte herb, with a 2-flowered, dark red umbel, which grows on the rocky slopes of the dry Yungas montane forest of Bolivia. It is apparently restricted to the Chamaca Valley, province of Sud Yungas, in the department of La Paz (Bolivia). The new species differs from the most similar species H. escobaruriae (Cárdenas) Van Scheepen and H. yungacense (Cárdenas & I. S. Nelson) Meerow by its color pattern and floral morphology.