Senecio iscoensis

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Senecio iscoensis

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Senecioneae
Genus:	Senecio
Species:	S. iscoensis

Binomial name

Senecio iscoensis
Hieron.^[1]

Range of S. iscoensis

Synonyms

Senecio decolor Benoist.^[2]

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,^[1] a privately owned reserve whose goal is the preservation of the native flora and fauna of the Andean páramo.^[3]

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

Habitat destruction is the only known threat to the species.^[1]

[edit] Distribution

Range of collection material.

Neotropic:

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

[edit] References

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

[edit] Further reading

Engelmann, W. (1901). Botanische Jahrbucher fur Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie, 29, Stuttgart [etc.] Schweizerbart [etc.]. QK1.B55.