Mutisia discoidea
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Mutisia discoidea is a species of flowering plant
in the Asteraceae
family.
It is found only in Ecuador
.
Its natural habitat
is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland
.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
in the Asteraceae
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
family.
It is found only in Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
.
Its natural habitat
Habitat
* Habitat , a place where a species lives and grows*Human habitat, a place where humans live, work or play** Space habitat, a space station intended as a permanent settlement...
is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland
Shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub or brush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity...
.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sources
- Gunnar Wilhelm Harling and Bengt Lennart Andersson 1991. Flora of Ecuador, no. 42: Compositae–Mutisieae. Published by Department of Systematic Botany, University of Goteborg and the Section for Botany, Riksmuseum, Stockholm. ISBN: 87-88702-68-5
- Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2003. Mutisia discoidea. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.