Chimantaea

Chimantaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Wunderlichioideae
Tribe: Mutisieae
Genus: Chimantaea
Maguire, Steyerm. & Wurdack
Type species
Chimantaea mirabilis
Maguire, Steyerm. & Wurdack

Chimantaea is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae.[1][2]

This genus[3] is endemic to the Pantepui,[4] a biogeographic province on the Guiana Highlands in Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil.[5] The region is characterized by a pattern of about 50 tepuis, isolated tabletop mountains that arise from the sandstone plateau of the highlands.[5] Tepuis are known for their biodiversity, especially their concentrations of endemic species, and most are still pristine, undisturbed ecosystems.[5] The genus is almost entirely restricted to the Chimantá Massif, a complex of several of these tepuis in Bolívar, Venezuela.[4] There several species of the genus are dominant members of the higher-elevation shrublands, which are known as paramoid vegetation because of their similarity to the páramos of the Andes.[6]

Species

All the species are endemic to Venezuela.[7]

  1. Chimantaea acopanensis
  2. Chimantaea cinerea
  3. Chimantaea eriocephala
  4. Chimantaea espeletoidea
  5. Chimantaea huberi
  6. Chimantaea humilis
  7. Chimantaea lanocaulis
  8. Chimantaea mirabilis
  9. Chimantaea rupicola

References

  1. ↑ Maguire, Bassett, Steyermark, Julian Alfred. & Wurdack, John Julius. 1957. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 9: 428-434 descriptions in Latin; key, commentary and type specimen information in English
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Chimantaea Maguire, Steyerm. & Wurdack
  3. ↑ Chimantaea. The Plant List.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rull, V. (2004). Biogeography of the 'Lost World': a palaeoecological perspective. Earth-Science Reviews 67(1), 125-37.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Désamoré, A., et al. (2010). Biogeography of the Lost World (Pantepui region, northeastern South America): insights from bryophytes. Phytotaxa 9, 254-65.
  6. ↑ Rull, V. (2004). An evaluation of the Lost World and Vertical Displacement hypotheses in the Chimantá massif, Venezuelan Guayana. Global Ecology and Biogeography 13(2), 141-48.
  7. ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist