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Barfussia platyrhachis (Mez) Manzan. & W.Till

Publ: Phytotaxa 279 (1): 39 (2016)

Type: Holotype: Rauh and Hirtz, ColI. No.37 571 (Sept. 1975), in the herbarium of the Institute of Systematic Botany of the University of Heidelberg (HEID). near the waterfall of the Rio Coca, 1400 m, Prov. Napo, east-central Ecuador.

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Distribution: ECUADOR; Napo,

Habitat: Mountainous forest,, 1400 m. Elev.

Etymology: Platy- (Gr.) broad, Rhachis the axis of the spike, because of the obvious broad complanate rachis.

Barfussia platyrhachis