TY - JOUR
T1 - Eleocharis cryptica (Cyperaceae), a dwarf new species from Durango, Mexico
AU - Saarela, Jeffery M.
AU - Peterson, Paul M.
AU - Elizondo, M. Socorro González
AU - Rosen, David J.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Christopher S. Reid for field assistance, Julian Starr for helpful discussion, Alice Tangerini for preparing the illustration, and the constructive comments of two reviewers. Our field research was supported financially by the Smithsonian Institutions Restricted Endowment fund, the National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration (grant number 8087-06) and the Canadian Museum of Nature.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Eleocharis cryptica (Cyperaceae), known from pine-oak forest in Durango, Mexico, is described and illustrated. It belongs to Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis ser. Tenuissimae and can be distinguished by its diminutive size, with culms 2-13 mm long (including spikelets 1.3-1.7 mm long), and the folliform prolongations of its upper sheaths. It is the smallest species of Eleocharis thus far known.
AB - Eleocharis cryptica (Cyperaceae), known from pine-oak forest in Durango, Mexico, is described and illustrated. It belongs to Eleocharis subg. Eleocharis ser. Tenuissimae and can be distinguished by its diminutive size, with culms 2-13 mm long (including spikelets 1.3-1.7 mm long), and the folliform prolongations of its upper sheaths. It is the smallest species of Eleocharis thus far known.
KW - Eleocharis nigrescens
KW - Sierra Madre Occidental
KW - Tenuissimae
KW - conservation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77956807043&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12228-009-9111-y
DO - 10.1007/s12228-009-9111-y
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0007-196X
VL - 62
SP - 233
EP - 238
JO - Brittonia
JF - Brittonia
IS - 3
ER -