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Tristicha trifaria Spreng., Syst. Veg.

  • 1. Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
  • 2. Herbario QCA, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador, Av. 12 de octubre 1076 y Roca, Apartado 17 - 01 - 2184, Quito, Ecuador

Description

1. Tristicha trifaria (Bory ex Willd.)

Spreng., Syst. Veg. ed. 16: 22. 1824

TYPE:— Mauritius, Bory de St. Vincent

Notes:—The voucher specimens here identified as Tristicha trifaria are assigned to this species due to the presence of leafy stems with tristichous leaves (photosynthetic shootlets or ramuli). Flowering axis with two bracts enclosing a flower before anthesis. Flowers have a single stamen and 3 stigmas; all defining traits of T. trifaria (Figure 1b).

Notes

Published as part of Bedoya, Ana M. & Pérez, Álvaro J., 2023, New records of riverweeds (Podostemaceae) from the tropical Andes (Ecuador and Colombia): getting our feet wet to bypass collection bias in Neotropical rivers, pp. 274-280 in Phytotaxa 585 (4) on page 277, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.585.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7703821

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Spreng., Syst. Veg.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Podostemaceae
Genus
Tristicha
Species
trifaria
Taxon rank
species