Critoniopsis sodiroi

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Critoniopsis sodiroi

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Critoniopsis
Species:
C. sodiroi
Binomial name
Critoniopsis sodiroi
(Hieron.) H.Rob.
Synonyms[2]
List
    • Critoniopsis pichinchensis (Cuatrec.) H.Rob. in Phytologia 46: 440 (1980)
    • Piptocarpha sodiroi Hieron. ex Sodiro in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 2 (1900)
    • Vernonia johnstuttsii G.Lom.Sm. in Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 99: 80 (2007)
    • Vernonia pichinchensis Cuatrec. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 77: 76 (1956)

Critoniopsis sodiroi is a species of

habitat loss
.

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.[3]

It was first published in Phytologia vol.69 on page 105 in 1990.[2]

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