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Aetheolaena cuencana

Overview

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Near Threatened

Threat status

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Description

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Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: A vine of high Andean forest and high altitude shrubland (2,000–4,000 m ). Most of the collections have been reported in wet areas along roads or trails .[1].

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Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Lasiocephalus Cuencanus • Lasiocephalus cuencanus (Hieron.) Cuatrec. • Senecio Cuencanus

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, IPNI, Tropicos, Colombia. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:BD438B00-FCFE-4A78-A548-9924BFF1C38A

Last scrutiny: 13-Oct-09

Treated by some authors under the genus Lasiocephalus. (Ref. 251808).

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Members of the genus Aetheolaena

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Footnotes

  1. Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2003. Aetheolaena cuencana. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/22/2012