identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03EFF778FF86FFB5FF088366FE92FED0.text	03EFF778FF86FFB5FF088366FE92FED0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Minuartia altoandina Nicola & Pozner 2013	<div><p>Minuartia altoandina Nicola &amp; Pozner, sp. nov. (Fig. 1)</p> <p>Type:— ARGENTINA. Jujuy: Dpto. Dr. Manuel Belgrano, del Refugio Militar al Chañi Chico, 4,740 m, 24º 02’ 13’’ S, 65º 42’ 58’’ W, 27 January 2012, C. A. Zanotti &amp; M. A. Suescún 269 (holotype SI!).</p> <p>Minute, moss-like herbs with slender, trailing stems with elongated internodes, rooting at nodes, and producing erect branches with short, reduced internodes. Trailing stems 40–50 × 0.6–0.8 mm with internodes 2–7 mm long and erect branches 10–15 mm long, densely covered by leaves. Leaves of the trailing stems opposite, sessile, shortly connated at base, lanceolate, 1.5–1.8 × 1 mm, recurved, acute-acuminate, 1-nerved; leaves of the erect branches opposite, sessile, shortly connated at base, ovate-lanceolate, 3–3.5 × 1–1.2 mm, erect, apex acute to rounded, 1-nerved, margin minutely pilose (2-5-celled, uniseriate trichomes) at base to papillose at apex. Flowers solitary, terminal. Pedicel reduced. Hypanthium short, dish-like, 0.25 × 1.5 mm; sepals 5, quincuncial, green, very much like the leaves, shortly lanceolate, 1.5–2 × 1–1.2 mm, apex acute to obtuse, 1-nerved, margin smooth or pilose-papillose; petals 0; stamens 10, white, 5 opposite to the sepals with a tiny pair of glands (nectaries) at filament base, and 5 alternate stamens without glands, anthers globose, dorsifixed, 0.25 × 0.25 mm, filaments 1 mm long; gynoecium 3-carpellate, ovary 0.5 × 0.7 mm, 1-locular with 3 campylotropous ovules arising from a central, short axis, styles 3, free, 1 mm long, stigmatic surface tiny, papillose, running along the inner side of the styles. Fruit and seeds unknown.</p> <p>Distribution and habitat: —High Andes of northwestern Argentina at 4,740 m elevation. Among the most frequent species of the surrounding vegetation are: Senecio algens Wedd., Caiophora nivalis Lillo, Calceolaria glacialis Wedd., Frankenia triandra J. Remy, Oxalis sp., Valeriana altoandina Cabrera, Valeriana nivalis Wedd., and Xenophyllum pseudodigitatum (Rockh.) V.A. Funk.</p> <p>Etymology: —Named because of its geographical distribution, in the high Andes of northwestern Argentina.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EFF778FF86FFB5FF088366FE92FED0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Nicola, Marcela V.;Pozner, Raúl	Nicola, Marcela V., Pozner, Raúl (2013): A new species of Minuartia (Caryophyllaceae) restricted to the high Andes of South America. Phytotaxa 111 (1): 53-56, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.111.1.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.111.1.4
