Zuloagocardamum

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Zuloagocardamum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Tribe: Thelypodieae
Genus: Zuloagocardamum
Salariato & Al-Shehbaz [1]
Species:
Z. jujuyensis
Binomial name
Zuloagocardamum jujuyensis
Salariato & Al-Shehbaz [2]

Zuloagocardamum jujuyensis is a very rare, dwarf species of caudiciform cress-like plant in the family Brassicaceae which was first described in 2014. It is endemic to mountains in Jujuy Province in northern Argentina, where it is only known to grow on the grounds of El Aguilar mine at 3,700 meters in altitude. It is only known from a single recent collection. [3] It is the only species in the new genus Zuloagocardamum, a monotypic genus. [4] It is quite similar in fruit and flower to Chilocardamum and Weberbauera , but the taxonomists describing the species decided it was sufficiently distinguished by dint of its well-developed, woody caudex, and extremely reduced, leafless branches bearing small rosulate tufts of linear leaves, and sticky, mucilaginous seeds. [5]

It is a perennial. [3] The caudex measures 8mm across. [5]

The genus was named after Fernando O. Zuloaga, the director of the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion, an agrostologist (a grass specialist) who both first discovered the plants and collected the only specimens of this new genus. [5]

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References

  1. "Zuloagocardamum Baill". International Plant Names Index . The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  2. "Zuloagocardamum jujuyensis". International Plant Names Index . The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Detalle de la Especie - Zuloagocardamum jujuyensis Salariato & Al-Shehbaz". Flora del Conosur (in Spanish). Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  4. "Zuloagocardamum Salariato & Al-Shehbaz". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 Salariato, D. L.; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan Ali (2014). "Zuloagocardamum (Brassicaceae: Thelypodieae) a New Genus from the Andes Highlands of Northern Argentina". Systematic Botany. 39 (2): 563–577. doi:10.1600/036364414X680898. hdl: 11336/100994 . S2CID   85386273 . Retrieved 20 October 2020.