Paradrymonia badia (Gesneriaceae), a new species from the Guiana Shield

Abstract

Paradrymonia badia sp. nov. is described from cultivated material originally collected in the Guianas. The new species has the same habit and grows in similar habitat as P. campostyla , but differs mainly from P. campostyla by the characters of the corolla shape,size, and by the color and pattern of the marking inside the corolla tube.