Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora
| Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora | |
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| Flowering plant of Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora from Navarino Island, Chile | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Ourisia |
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| Subspecies: | O. b. subsp. breviflora
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| Trinomial name | |
| Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora | |
Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora is a subspecies of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to mountainous habitats of the Andes of southern Chile and Argentina. George Bentham described O. breviflora in 1864. Plants of this subspecies are found in the southern part of the range of O. breviflora in the Andes of southern Chile and Argentina from 44–55°S latitude. They have long, sparsely to densely distributed hairs on the upper surface of the leaves, corollas that have dark purple striations, and floral bracts more than 5 mm long.
Taxonomy
[edit]Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora is in the plant family Plantaginaceae.[1] British botanist George Bentham described O. breviflora in Augustin Pyramus de Candolle's 1846 publication titled Prodromus.[2][3]
English naturalist Charles Darwin collected the type material of O. breviflora in 1833 in the Chilean Magallanes Region in southern Tierra del Fuego as part of the second voyage of the HMS Beagle.[3] American botanist Duncan MacNair Porter designated the lectotype, which is at the Herbarium at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew (K 00195396). There is also an isolectotype at Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE).[4][3][5][6]
Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora is one of two allopatric subspecies of O. breviflora. It is distributed in the southern part of the range of O. breviflora, from 44–55°S latitude, in Chile and Argentina, whereas O. breviflora subsp. uniflora is found in further north from 37–44°S latitude.[3]
Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora can be distinguished from subsp. uniflora by its long, sparsely to densely distributed hairs on the upper surface of the leaves, corollas that have dark purple striations, and floral bracts more than 5 mm long. These characters contrast with the usually glabrous (hairless) leaves, no dark purple veins on the corollas, and floral bracts up to 5 mm long of O. breviflora subsp. uniflora.[3]
Description
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Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora plants are perennial, erect, rosette herbs. The short stems are 1.1–4.0 mm wide, and glabrous (hairless) or hairy with short or long, non-glandular hairs. Leaves are opposite or tightly clustered in a subrosette, petiolate, 2.4–14.2 mm long by 2.0–13.2 mm wide (length: width ratio 0.9–1.2:1). Leaf petioles are 5.0–45.5 mm long and sparsely to densely hairy with short or long non-glandular hairs. Leaf blades are ovate, broadly ovate, or very broadly ovate, widest below the middle, with a rounded apex, cordate, truncate or cuneate base, and crenate edges. The upper surface of the leaf is sparsely to densely hairy and the lower surface is also punctate. Inflorescences are erect, with hairy racemes up to 12 cm long, and with 1–2 flowering nodes and up to 5 total flowers per raceme. Each flowering node has 1–2 flowers and 2 bracts that are ovate, broadly ovate or very broadly ovate. The bracts are similar to the leaves, 3.0–15.0 mm long and 2.5–13.9 mm wide and petiolate (lower bracts only) or sessile. The flowers are borne on a pedicel that is up to 32.9 mm long and densely hairy with non-glandular hairs sometimes also mixed with glandular hairs. The calyx is 3.8–7.9 mm long, regular, with all 5 lobes equally divided to the base of the calyx and rounded to subtruncate, usually glabrous but sometimes hairy with non-glandular or glandular hairs on the outside of the calyx, and with 1 or 3 prominent purple veins. The corolla is 8.0–11.9 mm long (including a 3.5–9.8 mm long corolla tube), bilabiate, straight or curved, tubular-funnelform, white, pale lilac or pale mauve with dark purple veins or striations, glabrous or hairy with tiny, sessile glandular hairs on the outside, and glabrous inside. The corolla lobes are 1.9–5.3 mm long, not spreading or spreading, obovate or obcordate and deeply emarginate. There are 4 stamens which are didynamous, with both the two long stamens and the two short stamens included or reaching the coreolla tube opening. The style is 2.3–3.0 mm long, included, with an emarginate or capitate stigma. The ovary is 1.8–2.5 mm long. Fruits are glabrous capsules with loculicidal dehiscence, and fruiting pedicels are 11.7–53.9 mm long. There are about 80 seeds in each capsule, and seeds are 0.5–0.9 mm long and 0.3–0.6 mm wide, elliptic, with a regular two-layered, reticulate (having a net-like pattern) seed coat with thick, smooth, shallow, primary reticula.[3]
Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora flowers and fruits from November to March.[3]
The chromosome number of Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora is unknown.[3]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora is endemic to the Andes mountains of Chile and Argentina from approximately 44°S to 56°S latitude.[3] It is found in the Chilean regions of Aysén and Magallanes, and the Argentinean provinces of Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego.[3] It can be found between sea level and 1200 m above sea level in wet or humid habitats such as bogs, streams, waterfalls, heath, as well as rocky cliffs and crevices, often in orophytic (subalpine) areas in Nothofagus forest near the treeline.[3][7] It is part of the 'alpine meadow' plant community in Tierra del Fuego,[7] including on Isla de los Estados,[8][9] in three of the four main vegetational zones, i.e. Magellanic moorland, evergreen forest and deciduous forest.[10]
Phylogeny
[edit]One individual of O. breviflora subsp. breviflora was included in a phylogenetic analysis of all species of the genus Ourisia, using standard DNA sequencing markers (two nuclear ribosomal DNA markers and two chloroplast DNA regions) and morphological data.[11][12] O. breviflora subsp. breviflora was placed with high support in a clade of southern Andean herbaceous species, closely related to O. fragrans and O. ruellioides,[11][12] which have overlapping geographic distributions with O. breviflora.[3] O. breviflora subsp. uniflora was not sampled in those studies.[11][12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
- ^ Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de; Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de; Candolle, Alphonse de (1846). Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive, Enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarium, juxta methodi naturalis, normas digesta. Vol. v.10 (1846). Parisii: Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Würtz. p. 493.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Meudt, Heidi (24 April 2006). Monograph of Ourisia (Plantaginaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs. Vol. 77. American Society of Plant Taxonomists. ISBN 978-0-912861-77-7.
- ^ "Lectotype of Ourisia breviflora Benth". JStor Global Plants. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
- ^ Porter, Duncan M. (1986). "Charles Darwin's vascular plant specimens from the voyage of HMS Beagle". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 93 (1): 1–172. doi:10.1111/J.1095-8339.1986.TB01019.X.
- ^ PORTER, DUNCAN M.; MURRELL, GINA; PARKER, JOHN (2009). "Some new Darwin vascular plant specimens from the Beagle voyage". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 159 (1): 12–18. doi:10.1111/J.1095-8339.2008.00943.X.
- ^ a b Moore, David M. (1983). "The Flora of the Fuego-Patagonian Cordilleras: its origins and affinities". Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. 56: 123–136.
- ^ Dudley, T. R. (1981). "Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the flora of Isla de los Estados (Staten Islnad), Tierra del Fuego, Argentina". Rhodora. 83 (836): 477–519.
- ^ "Flora de la Isla de los Estados". MUSEO MARÍTIMO DE USHUAIA (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 March 2025.
- ^ Moore, David M. (1974). "Catálogo de las plantas vasculares nativas de Tierra del Fuego". Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia (in Spanish). 5: 105–121.
- ^ a b c Meudt, Heidi; Simpson, Beryl Brintnall (18 April 2006). "The biogeography of the austral, subalpine genus Ourisia (Plantaginaceae) based on molecular phylogenetic evidence: South American origin and dispersal to New Zealand and Tasmania". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 87 (4): 479–513. doi:10.1111/J.1095-8312.2006.00584.X.
- ^ a b c Meudt, Heidi; Simpson, Beryl Brintnall (1 October 2007). "Phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters in Ourisia (Plantaginaceae): Taxonomic and evolutionary implications". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 94 (3): 554–570. doi:10.3417/0026-6493(2007)94[554:PAOMCI]2.0.CO;2.
External links
[edit]- Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora, occurrence data from Global Biodiversity Information Facility
