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Species of flowering plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aldama sodiroi is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
Aldama sodiroi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Aldama |
Species: | A. sodiroi |
Binomial name | |
Aldama sodiroi (Hieron.) E.E.Schill. & Panero | |
Synonyms[2][3] | |
Helianthus sodiroi Hieron. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 41 (1900) |
After molecular phylogenetic studies by botanists Schilling and Panero in 2011, showed that some species that were formerly classified in the genus Viguiera, were then transferred to genus Aldama.[4]
The specific epithet of sodiroi refers to Luis Sodiro (1836–1909), who was an Italian Jesuit priest and a field botanist,who collected many plants in Ecuador.[5]
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