Senecio iscoensis

Taxobox


status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
genus = "Senecio"
tribus = Senecioneae
species = "S. iscoensis"
binomial = "Senecio iscoensis"
binomial_authority = Hieron.cite web
url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/43843/all
title = "Senecio iscoensis" – Data Deficient
accessdate = 2008-04-02
author = Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N.
date = 2003
format = HTML
work =

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range_map_width = 240px
range_map_caption = Range of "S. iscoensis"
synonyms = "Senecio decolor" Benoist.cite web
url = http://test.tropicos.org/Name/2707827
title = "Senecio iscoensis" Benoist.
accessdate = 2008-04-03
author = Tropicos
authorlink = Missouri Botanical Garden
format = HTML
publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden ]

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

A subshrub endemic to Ecuador, where it is known from three collections in the central and northern Andes. First recorded by L. Sodiro, probably at the Hacienda Isco, in the foothills of Volcán Antisana and probably inside the reserve of 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]

"S. icoensis" might be a synonym of "S. antisanae".cite 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]

Habitat destruction is the only known threat to the species.

Distribution

Neotropic::Western South America: Ecuador (Pichincha, Imbabura, Cotopaxi, Cañar)

References

Further reading

*cite book
last = Engelmann
first = W.
title = Botanische Jahrbucher fur Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie
edition = 29
date = 1901
publisher = Stuttgart [etc.] Schweizerbart [etc.]
id = QK1.B55