Espeletia floccosa

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Espeletia floccosa Standl., Amer. J. Bot. 2: 481 (–482; fig. 6) (1915)

Typus: A. Jahn 154 (in flower, October 1910; Holotypus: US [US00132125 (602483)^{(GBIF, JSTOR, speciesLink)}]).
Type locality: Venezuela. State of Trujillo: Páramo del Jabón, at an altitude of 3,000 to 3,200 meters.

Homotypic
- Ruilopezia floccosa (Standl) Cuatrec., Phytologia 35(1): 52 (1976); not accepted by Mavárez (2019) [cited as Espeletia floccosa]

Native distribution areas:
Southern America Northern South America Venezuela. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Cuatrecasas, J. 1976. A new subtribe in the Heliantheae (Compositae): Espeletiinae. Phytologia 35(1): 43–61. BHL. Reference page.
Diazgranados, M. 2012. A nomenclator for the frailejones (Espeletiinae Cuatrec., Asteraceae). PhytoKeys 16: 1–52. DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.16.3186 Reference page. [see page 40 (as Ruilopezia floccosa)]
Luteyn, J.L. 1999. Páramos: a checklist of plant diversity, geographical distribution, and botanical literature. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 84: viii–xv, 1–278. Issuu . Reference page. [see page 96 (as Ruilopezia floccosa)]
Mavárez, J. 2019. A taxonomic revision of Espeletia (Asteraceae). The Venezuelan radiation. Harvard Papers in Botany 24(2): 131–244. DOI: 10.3100/hpib.v24iss2.2019.n8 ResearchGate PDF. Reference page. [see pages 169, 171–172 & 174]
Smith, A.C. & Koch, M.F. 1935. The genus Espeletia: a study in phylogenetic taxonomy. Brittonia 1(7): 479–530, tt. DOI: 10.2307/2804673 (via Wikipedia Library ). JSTOR . Reference page. [see page 523]

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2024. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Espeletia floccosa. Accessed: 2024 March 6.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Espeletia floccosa in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 March 6. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2024. Espeletia floccosa. Published online. Accessed: 6 March 2024.
Tropicos.org 2024. Espeletia floccosa. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 6 March 2024.

español: Frailejón (Plateado)