Nothoscordum montevidense Beauv. ssp. latitepalum (Guag.) Ravenna

Echeverría, María L., Alonso, Sara I. & Comparatore, Viviana M., 2017, Survey of the vascular plants of Sierra Chica, the untouched area of the Paititi Natural Reserve (southeastern Tandilia mountain range, Buenos Aires province, Argentina), Check List 13 (6), pp. 1003-1036 : 1015-1016

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scientific name	Nothoscordum montevidense Beauv. ssp. latitepalum (Guag.) Ravenna
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Nothoscordum montevidense Beauv. ssp. latitepalum (Guag.) Ravenna View in CoL

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Nothoscordum montevidense Beauv. var. latitepalum (Guag.) Ravenna (1978) View in CoL : 144 ― Hurrell (2009b): 49; Flora Argentina (2017); Tropicos (2017).

Nothoscordum montevidense Beauv. var. latipetalum Guaglianone (1972) : 232.

Nothoscordum montevidense Beauverd (1906) View in CoL : 1011 — Cabrera (1968): 515.

Cryptophyte, native with distribution in the Southern Cone Region of South America; previously recorded from Buenos Aires province but not from mountainous areas.

Characteristics. Perennial herb, 5–10 cm tall. Bulb solitary, globose, ca 1 cm in diameter. Sheaths short. Leaves to 10 cm long, parallel-veined, linear, with apex acute. Peduncles erect. Inflorescence: an umbel, with 2–10 flowers. Tepal perianth yellow, 3.5–5 mm long. Anthers to 2 mm long. Fruit: a capsule.

Comments. This is an infrequent species in the study area. It grows in shallow to moderately deep, damp soils on rocky and grassy slopes with other white-flowered Nothoscordum species. Cabrera (1968) reported N. montevidense from Buenos Aires province but not this subspecies. Hurrell (2009b) reported the existence of 3 subspecies in the Rioplatense region of northwestern Buenos Aires province. Our Paititi specimens belong to N. montevidensis ssp. latitepalum because they are relatively tall and present flowers with wide yellow tepals.

References

Beauverd G (1906) Une liliacee nouvelle de l'Uruguay. Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier (ser. 2) 6: 1011.

Cabrera AL (1968) Gimnospermas y Monocotiledoneas (excepto Gramineas). Flora de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Pteridaceas. Coleccion Cientifica Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecu- aria. Tomo 4 (1). Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires, 625 pp.

Flora Argentina (2017) Plantas vasculares de la Republica Argentina. http: // www. floraargentina. edu. ar. Accessed on: 2017 - 9 - 25.

Guaglianone ER (1972) Sinopsis de las especies de Ipheion Raf. y Nothoscordum Kunth (Liliaceae) de Entre Rios y regiones vecinas. Darwiniana 17: 159 - 242.

Hurrell JA (2009 b) Alliaceae. In: Hurrel JA (Ed.). Flora rioplatense: sistematica, ecologia y etnobotanica de las plantas vasculares rioplatenses 3 (4). Editorial Lola, Buenos Aires, 35 - 62.

Ravenna P (1978). Studies in the Alliaceae II. Plant Life 34: 130 - 151.

Tropicos (2017) Tropicos. org. Missouri Botanical Garden. http: // www. tropicos. org. Accessed on: 2017 - 11 - 6.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Tracheophyta
Class	Liliopsida
Order	Asparagales
Family	Amaryllidaceae
Genus	Nothoscordum