Abstract
Dicliptera mercedesiae (Acanthaceae: Justicieae), a new species is described and illustrated from the Junin region of Peru. The new species is similar to Dicliptera purpurascens, but differs by its subsessile flowers, smaller elliptic cymules bracts and corolla without resupination.
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<p>Costa-Lima, J. & Chagas, E. (2020) A synopsis of <em>Dicliptera</em> (Acanthaceae) in Brazil, with the description of two new species. <em>Systematic Botany</em> 45: 340–348. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364420X15862837791186</p>
<p>Daniel, T. & McDade, L. (2005) <em>Floral resupination in Acanthaceae: Taxonomic and geographic distributions, expression and possible functions</em>. Botany 2005: Abstracts, Scientific Meeting, Austin, Texas.</p>
<p>Daniel, T. (2009) Synopsis of <em>Dicliptera</em> (Acanthaceae) in the Nueva Galicia region of western Mexico with a new species, <em>D. novogaliciana</em>. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences </em>60: 1–18.</p>
<p>Darbyshire, I. (2008) Notes on the genus <em>Dicliptera</em> (Acanthaceae) in Eastern Africa. <em>Kew Bulletin</em> 63 (3): 361–383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-008-9053-7</p>
<p>Ezcurra, C. (1999) Acanthaceae. <em>In</em> Novara, L. (Ed.) Flora del Valle del Lerma (Provincia de Salta). <em>Aportes Botánicos de Salta, Serie Flora</em> 6 (4): 1–58.</p>
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<p>Grisebach, A.H.R. (1874) Plantae Lorentzianae: Bearbeitung der ersten und zeeiten Sammlung argentinischer Pflanzen des Professor Lorentz zu Cordoba. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Göttingen</em> 19: 49–279.</p>
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<p>Jacquin, N.J.B. von (1798) <em>Plantarum Rariorum Horti Caesarei Schoenbrunnensis Descriptiones et Icones 3</em>. C. F. Wappler, Vienna, 80 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.332</p>
<p>Jussieu, A. (1807) Memoire Sur le <em>Dicliptera</em> et le <em>Blechum</em>, genres nouveaux de plantes, composés de plusieurs espèces auparavant réunies au <em>Justicia</em>.<em> Annales du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle</em> 9: 251–271.</p>
<p>Kiel, C., Daniel, T., Darbyshire, I. & McDade, L. (2017) Unraveling relationships in the morphologically diverse and taxonomically challenging ‘justicioid’ lineage (Acanthaceae, Justicieae). <em>Taxon </em>66: 645–674. https://doi.org/10.12705/663.8</p>
<p>Lamarck, J.B. (1783) <em>Encyclopédie Méthodique. Botanique. Tome Premier</em>. Chez Panckoucke, Paris, 752 pp.</p>
<p>Leonard, E.C. (1958) The Acanthaceae of Colombia. <em>Contributions from the United States National Herbarium</em> 31 (3): 323–781.</p>
<p>Lindau, G. (1904) Acanthaceae Americanae IV. <em>Bulletin de L’Herbier Boissier,</em> Série II, 4: 313–328.</p>
<p>Lindau, G. (1905a) Plantae nonnullae novae andinae. <em>Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis</em> 1: 156–159. https://doi.org/10.1002/fedr.4870011004</p>
<p>Lindau, G. (1905b) Acanthaceae Americanae IV. <em>Bulletin de L’Herbier Boissier, Série II</em> 5: 367‒374.</p>
<p>Link, H.F. (1820) Der botanische Garten bei Berlin und die Willdenowsche kräutersammlung. <em>Jahrbücher der Gewächskunde</em> 1: 13–93.</p>
<p>Linnaeus, C. von (1753) <em>Species Plantarum </em>1. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Holmiæ, Stockholm, 560 pp.</p>
<p>McDade, L, Daniel, T., Masta, S. & Riley, K. (2000) Phylogenetic relationships within the tribe Justicieae (Acanthaceae): Evidence from molecular sequences, morphology, and cytology. <em>Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden</em> 87: 435–458. https://doi.org/10.2307/2666140</p>
<p>Nees, C.G.D.N. von. (1847a) Acanthaceae. <em>In</em> de Candolle, A.L.P.P. (Ed.) <em>Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 11</em>. Treuttel et Würtz, Paris, pp. 46–519.</p>
<p>Nees, C.G.D.N. von. (1847b) Acanthaceae. <em>In</em> Martius, K.P. von, Eichler, A.G. & Urban, I. (Eds.) <em>Flora Brasiliensis 9</em>. Typographia Regia, Monachii, pp. 1–164, pl. 1–31.</p>
<p>Ruiz, L.H. & Pavón, J.A. (1798) <em>Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis </em>1. Typis Gabrielis de Sancha, Madrid, 78 pp.</p>
<p>Regel, E.A. von (1875) <em>Oxalis ortgiesii</em>. <em>Gartenflora </em>24: 1–2, pl. 817.</p>
<p>Sims, J. (1825) <em>Thunbergia alata</em>. <em>Curtis’s Botanical Magazine</em> 52: pl. 2591.</p>
<p>Thiers, B. (2017) <em>Index Herbariorum: A global directory of public herbaria and asociated staff</em>. New York Botanical Garden´s Virtual Herbarium, Available from: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/ (accessed 30 July 2020)</p>
<p>Villanueva-Espinoza, R. & Condo, F. (2019) Sinopsis de la Familia Acanthaceae en el Perú. <em>Revista Forestal del Perú</em> 34 (1): 21–40. https://doi.org/10.21704/rfp.v34i1.1282</p>
<p>Wasshausen, D.C. (1987) New and interesting species of Acanthaceae from Peru. <em>Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen</em> 63 (3): 421–429.</p>
<p>Wasshausen, D. (1991) New Species of <em>Dicliptera</em> (Acanthaceae) from the Guianas. <em>Brittonia </em>43 (1): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.2307/2807168</p>
<p>Wasshausen, D. & Wood, J. (2004a) Notes on the genus <em>Dicliptera</em> (Acanthaceae) in Bolivia. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington</em> 117 (1): 140–149.</p>
<p>Wasshausen, D. & Wood, J. (2004b) Acanthaceae of Bolivia. <em>Contribution from the United States National Herbarium</em> 49: 1–152.</p>
<p>Wasshausen, D. (2013) Acanthaceae. <em>In</em> Persson, C. & Stahl, B. (Eds.) <em>Flora of Ecuador</em>. Goteborg, Sweden, University of Gothenburg, pp. 1–328.</p>
<p>Wood, J. (1988) Colombian Acanthaceae: Some New Discoveries and Some Reconsiderations<em>. Kew Bulletin</em> 43: 1–51. https://doi.org/10.2307/4118035</p>