Senecio iscoensis

Senecio iscoensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Senecio
Species: S. iscoensis
Binomial name
Senecio iscoensis
Hieron.[1]
Synonyms

Senecio decolor Benoist.[2]

Senecio iscoensis or Aetheolaena senecioidesis is a species of Senecio in the Asteraceae family that is found only in subtropical and tropical dry shrubland in Ecuador. It is threatened by habitat loss.

It is known from three collections in the central and northern Andes. First recorded by Luis Sodiro, probably at the Hacienda Isco, it is also recorded from the foothills of Volcán Antisana and probably inside the reserve of the Antisana Ecological Reserve,[1] a privately owned reserve that preserves the native flora and fauna of the Northern Andean páramo.[3]

S. icoensis might be a synonym of S. antisanae.[4]

Distribution

Range of collection material.

Neotropic:

Western South America: Ecuador (Pichincha, Imbabura, Cotopaxi, Cañar)[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. (2003). "Senecio iscoensis – Data Deficient". 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. World Conservation Union. Retrieved 2008-04-02.
  2. 1 2 Tropicos. "Senecio iscoensis Benoist.". Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
  3. ↑ "Antisana Ecological Reserve". Summer Experience in Ecuador. Washington College and the University of San Francisco at Quito. 1998. Retrieved 2008-04-02.
  4. ↑ Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. (2003). "Senecio iscoensis – Data Deficient". 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. World Conservation Union. Retrieved 2008-04-02.

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