Clarifying the occurrence and conservation status of Plantago dielsiana Pilg. and P. australis Lam. subsp. pretoana Rahn (Plantaginaceae) in Brazil

Gustavo Hassemer; Rafael Trevisan; Nina Rønsted

doi:10.15560/11.2.1569

Check List 11(2): e19167, doi: 10.15560/11.2.1569

Clarifying the occurrence and conservation status of Plantago dielsiana Pilg. and P. australis Lam. subsp. pretoana Rahn (Plantaginaceae) in Brazil

Gustavo Hassemer^‡, Rafael Trevisan^§, Nina Rønsted^|

‡ Københavns Universitet, Brazil§ Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil| Københavns Universitet, Denmark

Corresponding author: Gustavo Hassemer ( gustavonaha@gmail.com )

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Hassemer G, Trevisan R, Rønsted N (2015) Clarifying the occurrence and conservation status of Plantago dielsiana Pilg. and P. australis Lam. subsp. pretoana Rahn (Plantaginaceae) in Brazil. Check List 11(2): 1569. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.2.1569

Abstract

Problems in the original description of a species can have long-lasting consequences. This is the case of Plantago dielsiana and P. australis subsp. pretoana, two taxa referred to occur in Brazil by different authors. This work has the objective of clarifying the long standing misunderstanding about the occurrence of these two taxa in Brazil. Additionally, we revise the distribution and assess the conservation status of P. australis subsp. pretoana, an endangered, rather poorly understood subspecies endemic to southeastern Brazil.

Keywords

endemic species; distribution; Plantagineae; South America; taxonomy