Arnicastrum guerrerense

Taxobox
name = "Arnicastrum guerrerense"


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
genus = "Arnicastrum"
species = "A. guerrerense"
binomial = "Arnicastrum guerrerense"
binomial_authority = Greenm.

"Arnicastrum guerrerense" Villaseñor 1986 (sometimes called "A. guerrense") from the family Asteraceae is a perennial herb with yellow flowers known from Mexico. It was discovered in 1983 in the mountains of Sierra Madre del Sur in the Mexican state Guerrero and described in the scientific magazine "Systematic Botany" 3 years later. It was found in the altitude of 3200 m above the sea level in a coniferous forest with predominant "Pinus hartwegii" and "Abies". However it is just known from Mexico, the Mexican red list of endangered plants describe it as non endemitic [NORMA Official Mexicana NOM-059-ECOL-2001, Protección ambiental-Especies nativas de México de flora y fauna silvestres-Categorías de riesgo y especificaciones para su inclusión, exclusión o cambio-Lista de especiesen riesgo. Available from: http://www.ine.gob.mx/ueajei/norma59.html.] .

Red List Status

"A. guerrerense" is listed on the official red list of Mexico as a plant which needs "special protection".

Literature

Villaseñor, J. L. 1986. A New Species of the Mexican Genus Arnicastrum Greenm. (Asteraceae: Heliantheae). Systematic Botany 11(2):277-279.

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