Paronychia sanchez-vegae (Caryophyllaceae), a new woody species of Paronychia from North Peru Author Montesinos-Tubée, Daniel B. Instituto Científico Michael Owen Dillon, Av. Jorge Chávez 610, Cercado, Arequipa, Perú. & Instituto de Ciencia y Gestión Ambiental de la Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa. Calle San Agustín 108, Arequipa- Perú. Author Cano, Asunción Laboratorio de Florística, Departamento de Dicotiledóneas, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. & Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas Antonio Raimondi, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. Author García-Llatas, Luis F. Departamento de Botánica, Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque, Perú & Instituto Estudiantil de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad “ Maximilian Weigend ” - INEBRIO, Lambayeque, Perú. Author Ju, Yingzi Systematic Biology, EBC, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18 D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden. Author Kool, Anneleen Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P. O. Box 1172 Blindern 0318, Oslo, Norway. text Phytotaxa 2018 2018-01-12 334 1 41 48 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.334.1.6 journal article 308756 10.11646/phytotaxa.334.1.6 8705445b-ca84-4c2d-9e21-d638edbf6d42 1179-3163 13721160

TABLE 1. Morphological comparison among Paronychia sanchez-vegae, P. andina, P. libertadiana, P. limaei, P. weberbaueri, and P. hieronymi.

	P. sanchez-vegae	P. andina	P. libertadiana	P. limaei	P. weberbaueri	P. hieronymi
Habit	woody, ramified, radicant, postrate or suberect	pulvinate perennial herb	postrate	Postrate, 10–18 cm	perennial herb, ascending or suberect	perennial herb, woody root, much branched
Glomerules	subequitant, congested	terminal, subterminal	terminal, sessile	lateral, rigid	terminal	--
Internodes	2–14 mm, woody, densely puberolous	1–2 mm	2–9 mm, robust, hirtellous	6 mm	1–3 mm, puberulous, reddish with age	2–8 mm, puberolous
Leaf shape	linear, narrowly spathulate to gladiate	elliptic-oblong to ovate	elliptic-obovate,	oblong, ovate-lanceolate	elliptic oblong to ovate, concave	ovate to broadly lanceolate
Leaf size (mm)	2.5–7.5 × 0.8–1.5	2.5–4 × 1.2–2	4 × 2.25	4 × 1.5–2	2.7–3.5 × 2–2.5	7-8.5 × 2.5–3
Leaf indument	puberulous in the base, glabrous on both sides, margin shortly ciliate	glabrous or puberulous in the under side	pubescent underside, glabrous upperside	pubescent on both surfaces,	hirtellous on both sides, margin sligthly hirsute	both sides glabrous, margin ciliate
Stipules	ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2–7 × 0.7–1.5 mm	ovate to oblong, 2–3(<4) × 1.5– 2(<2–5) mm	lanceolate, 4 mm long, acuminate	oblong, ovate-oblong, 2.5- 3 mm	broadly oval-oblong 3.8 × 2.7 mm	2.5 × 1 mm, ovate suboblong
Flower size (mm)	1.2–2.0	(2>)2.2– 2.5(<3.2)	2–2.25 × 1–1.15 mm	2.25–2.4 mm	2.2–2.3	1.75–2 × 2.4–3 mm
Sepals	oblong, base lanate 1.2–2.0 × 0.4–0.7 mm	oblong, 1.3–1.5(<2) × 0.5–0.7 mm	ovate-oblong to lanc, 1 mm long	oblong, ovate-oblong, 1.25–1.4 mm	oblong, obtuse. 1.2–1.4 mm	semi-scarious, 1–1.5 mm, reddish tip
Ovary	ovoid to orbicular, 0.7–0.9 mm	conical, 0.5– 0.6 × 0.4–0.5 mm	ovoid, 0.5 mm	ovoid, 0.4–0.5 mm diam.	subquadrangular 0.5 mm in diam.	ovoid, 0.5–0.6 mm