Tetroncium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Juncaginaceae
Genus: Tetroncium
Willd.
Species:
T. magellanicum
Binomial name
Tetroncium magellanicum
Synonyms[1]
  • Cathanthes Rich.
  • Triglochin magellanica Vahl ex Kunth
  • Triglochin reflexa Vahl. ex Kunth

Tetroncium is a genus of plants in the Juncaginaceae described as a genus in 1808.[2][3] It contains only one known species, Tetroncium magellanicum, known from a few sub-Antarctic islands: Tierra Del Fuego (Chile and Argentina), Falkland Islands, and Gough Island.[1][4][5][6] The plant got the name magellanicum because the original description was describing the sample found near the Strait of Magellan.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von. 1808. Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin Magazin für die neuesten Entdeckungen in der Gesammten Naturkunde 2: 17
  3. ^ Tropicos, Tetroncium Willd.
  4. ^ Moore, D. M. 1974. Plantas vasculares nativas de Tierra del Fuego. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia: Serie Ciencias Naturales, Punta Arenas (Chile) 5(142): 107–119
  5. ^ Dudley, T. R. 1981. Notas taxonómicas y de nomenclatura sobre la Flora de Islas de los Estados, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Rhodora 83: 477–579
  6. ^ Moore, D. M. 1965. Some recent records of native and alien flowering plants from the Falkland Islands. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 7: 29–35.
  7. ^ Mering, Sabine von (2013). "Tetroncium and its only species, T. magellanicum (Juncaginaceae): Distribution, ecology and lectotypification". Willdenowia. 43: 13–24. doi:10.3372/wi.43.43102. S2CID 84914061.


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