Scientia hondurensis 3(1), año 2020 Brown et al. 2020 REPORTING A NEW LOCALITY FOR Voyria aphylla (GENTIANACEAE) ON ISLA DE UTILA, HONDURAS Tom W. Brown1, Cristina Arrivillaga1, Sven Batke2 1 Kanahau Utila Research and Conservation Facility (KURCF), Dept. Biodiversity Research, Pumpkin Hill, Isla de Utila, Honduras. 2 Edge Hill University, Biology Department, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 4QP, UK. Corresponding author:
[email protected] Recibido: 6 de diciembre del 2019 Cochinos archipelago, situated off the Aceptado: 8 de mayo del 2020 Caribbean coast of Honduras. Of these Publicado: 30 de junio del 2020 Cita: Brown, T.M., C. Arrivillaga y S. Batke. major islands, Utila is positioned 2020. Reporting a new locality for Voyria closest to the mainland, located aphylla (Gentianaceae) on Isla de Utila, approximately 32 km NNW from the Honduras. Scientia hondurensis 3(1): XX-XX city of La Ceiba in the Honduran Department of Atlántida. Most of its RESUMEN: La diversidad botánica y surface is covered by swamp forests, floral de las Islas de la Bahía, mangroves and neotropical savanna Honduras, ha recibido poca atención (Fickert and Gruninger, 2010; Fawcett científica. Aquí se informa una et al. 2016). Swamp forests and localidad adicional para la especie mangroves are characteristic zonal micoheterotrófica Voyria aphylla ecosystems of the (sub) tropics. While (Jacq.) Pers. (Gentianaceae), desde el mangroves occupy brackish and salty interior del bosque de pantanos environments such as shorelines, mixtos y el hábitat de la sabana lagoons and estuaries, further in-land, neotropical en la Isla de Utila. many different types of moist forests occur in freshwater environments (for PALABRAS CLAVE: Bosque de Central American wetlands see Ellison, Pantano, Distribución, Flora, 2004).