Check List 13(6): 925-930, doi: 10.15560/13.6.925
New records of Tamarix ramosissima Ledeb. (Tamaricaceae) in basins of Western Chaco dry forest, northwestern Argentina
expand article infoEdgardo Javier Ignacio Pero‡
‡ Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical, CONICET-UNT, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina

Corresponding author: Edgardo Javier Ignacio Pero ( peroedgardo@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Marcelo Trovó Lopes de Oliveira
© Edgardo Javier Ignacio Pero.
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Citation: Pero EJI (2017) New records of Tamarix ramosissima Ledeb. (Tamaricaceae) in basins of Western Chaco dry forest, northwestern Argentina. Check List 13(6): 925-930. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.925
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Abstract
Different species of the exotic plant Tamarix have been registered as colonizing natural and semi-natural environ-ments in many provinces of Argentina. Nevertheless, the genus has not been cited for Tucumán or Santiago del Estero provinces, and not even for the Western Chaco dry forest ecoregion. The present work records the presence of Tamarix in riparian zones situated in different basins of Western Chaco ecoregion, namely in Tucumán and Santiago del Estero provinces, as well as the establishment of a T. ramosissima population in the Salí River basin in Tucumán.
Keywords
Invasive alien plant; new record; Saltcedar; Tamarisk