Senecio antisanae

Taxobox


status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
tribus = Senecioneae
genus = "Senecio"
species = "S. antisanae"
binomial = "Senecio antisanae"
binomial_authority = Benth.
range_

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range_map_width = 180px
range_map_caption = Range of "S. antisanae" Sources: IPNI,IPNI
id = 243829-1
date = 2008-05-29] IUCNcite web
url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/43842/all
title = "Senecio iscoensis" – Data Deficient
accessdate = 2008-04-02
author = Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N.
date = 2003
format = HTML
work = 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
publisher = World Conservation Union]

"Senecio antisanae" is a species of Senecio in the Asteraceae family found only in Ecuador.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

A terrestrial herb endemic to Ecuador, where it is known from a few old collections in the Andes. The only subpopulation with detailed locale information was recorded at the Hacienda del Isco, in the foothills of Volcán Antisana in the Cordillera of Quito,cite web
url = http://test.tropicos.org/Name/2743426
title = "Senecio antisanae" Benth.
accessdate = 2008-04-03
author = Tropicos
authorlink = Missouri Botanical Garden
format = HTML
publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden ] in the year 1845.This subpopulation may now be inside the Reserva Ecológica Antisana,a privately owned reserve whose goal is the preservation of the native flora and fauna of the Andean páramo.cite web
url = http://www.ecuador.washcoll.edu/Antisana/antisana.html
title = Antisana Ecological Reserve
accessdate = 2008-04-02
date = 1998
format = HTML
work = Summer Experience in Ecuador
publisher = Washington College and the University of San Francisco at Quito] The species may be a synonym of Aetheolaena senecioides or "S. iscoensis" (Nordenstam in Jørgensen and León-Yánez 1999). No specimens of this species are housed in Ecuadorian museums.

Habitat destruction is the only known threat to the species.

Distribution

Neotropic::Western South America: Ecuador (Pichincha)

References

External links

*cite book
last = Bentham
first = George
authorlink = George Bentham
title = Plantas Hartwegianas :imprimis mexicanas adjectis nonnullis Grahamianis enumerat novasque describit Georgius Bentham
url = http://botanicus.org/title/b11997229
date = 1839 - 1857
publisher = Londini
id = QK109.B48 1839-57
pages = page 210
chapter = Senecio
chapterurl = http://www.botanicus.org/title.aspx?bibid=b12069590&volume=2&issue=&startpage=866&year=1753