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Darwiniothamnus lancifolius subsp. glabriusculus (Stewart) Lawesson & Adsersen

margarita de Darwin, lance-leafed Darwin's shrub

Darwiniothamnus lancifolius ssp. glabriusculus (A. Stewart) Lawesson & Adsersen Photo: Patricia Jaramillo, Rachel Atkinson, Anne Guézou, CDF, 2008.
Darwiniothamnus lancifolius ssp. glabriusculus (A. Stewart) Lawesson & Adsersen Photo: Patricia Jaramillo, Rachel Atkinson, Anne Guézou, CDF, 2008.

A woody dome-shaped shrub. The lance-shaped leaves grow in whorls up the branches. The white daisy-like flowers occur in groups and are normally present all year round.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)

Order
Asterales

Family
Asteraceae

Genus
Darwiniothamnus

Species
lancifolius

Subspecies
subsp. glabriusculus

Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa

Syn.: Darwiniothamnus tenuifolius var. glabriusculus (Stewart) Cronquist, Erigeron lancifolius Hook f., E. lancifolius var. glabriusculus Stewart. In Hooker (1847) as Erigeron lancifolium.

Taxon origin: Endemic

Status

Endangered

References

  • Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
  • Lawesson, J.E. Adsersen, H. (1987) Notes on the endemic genus Darwiniothamnus Haling (Asteraceae, Astereae) from the Galapagos Islands. Opera Botanica 92: 7-15.
  • Adsersen, H. (1989) The Rare Plants of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador and their Conservation. Biol. Conservation 47(1): 49-77.
  • Hooker, J.D. (1847) An Enumeration of the Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago; with descriptions of those which are new. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20: 163-233.
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  • Liu, H. Tye, A., Jaramillo, P., Simbaña, W., Madriz, P., An, S., Wang, Z., Xu, X., Wang, F. G., Xu, H., Song, X. Q., Trusty, J., Maunder, M., Lewis, C. &Francisco-Ortega, J. (2012) Science at Fairchild: Conservation and biodiversity on Pacific Ocean Islands. Tropical Garden 65(1): 28-31.
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