First record of Plantago commersoniana (Plantaginaceae), a rare and threatened species, in the Central-West region of Brazil

Gustavo Hassemer; Osmar Ribas; Nina Rønsted

doi:10.15560/11.4.1667

Check List 11(4): e19266, doi: 10.15560/11.4.1667

First record of Plantago commersoniana (Plantaginaceae), a rare and threatened species, in the Central-West region of Brazil

Gustavo Hassemer^‡, Osmar dos Santos Ribas^§, Nina Rønsted^‡

‡ Københavns Universitet, Denmark§ Museu Botânico Municipal de Curitiba, Brazil

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

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Citation: Hassemer G, Ribas O, Rønsted N (2015) First record of Plantago commersoniana (Plantaginaceae), a rare and threatened species, in the Central-West region of Brazil. Check List 11(4): 1667. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.4.1667

Abstract

Plantago commersoniana is a rare and threatened species, with a highly disjunct distribution, mainly in southern Brazil. This study expands its distribution to Mato Grosso do Sul state, in the Central-West region of Brazil, due to the discovery of a collection of this species from rocky grasslands in Ponta Porã. This new record is ca. 285 km distant from the nearest known population, in Yhú, Caaguazú department, eastern Paraguay. This is also the first record of a native Plantago species in Mato Grosso do Sul. Its conservation status according to the IUCN criteria is Endangered (EN).

Keywords

distribution extension; Neotropics; new record; rare species; South America