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Senecio iscoensis or Aetheolaena senecioides[3] is a flowering plant in the aster family. It is found only in subtropical and tropical dry shrubland in Ecuador. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Senecio iscoensis
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Senecio
Species:	S. iscoensis
Binomial name
Senecio iscoensis Hieron.[1]
Range of collection material
Synonyms
Senecio decolor Benoist.[2]

It is known from three collections in the central and northern Andes. First recorded by Luis Sodiro, probably at the Hacienda Isco, it is also recorded from the foothills of Volcán Antisana and probably inside the reserve of the Antisana Ecological Reserve,[1] a privately owned reserve that preserves the native flora and fauna of the Northern Andean páramo.[4]

Distribution

Neotropic:

Western South America: Ecuador (Pichincha, Imbabura, Cotopaxi, Cañar)[2]

References

Further reading

• Engelmann, W. (1901). Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (29 ed.). Stuttgart [etc.] Schweizerbart [etc.] QK1.B55.

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