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Type: Article
Published: 2020-06-25
Page range: 219–228
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Going unnoticed for 40 years: about the presence of the exotic Suaeda paradoxa (Chenopodiaceae, Suaedoideae) in Argentina

Departamento de Biología Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, RN N° 151 km 12.5, Casilla de Correo 85, Código Postal 8303, Cinco Saltos, Río Negro, Argentina.
Departamento de Biología Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, RN N° 151 km 12.5, Casilla de Correo 85, Código Postal 8303, Cinco Saltos, Río Negro, Argentina.
Instituto de Botánica Darwinion (IBODA, CONICET-ANCEFN), Labardén 200, Casilla de Correo 22, Código Postal 1642, San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Departamento de Biología Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, RN N° 151 km 12.5, Casilla de Correo 85, Código Postal 8303, Cinco Saltos, Río Negro, Argentina. Herbario ARC (Agronomía Región Comahue), Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional del Comahue.
Argentina Chenopodiaceae first record Patagonia Schanginia Suaeda Eudicots

Abstract

As a part of ecologic studies conducted in wetlands of Patagonia, Argentina, and in the frame of taxonomic studies within Chenopodiaceae for South America, we collected specimens of Suaeda that did not match the features to any of the species currently known to the Flora of Argentina. The aim of this contribution is to report for the first time the presence of Suaeda paradoxa in Argentina, by the means of the study of living plants and herbarium material, original descriptions, type material, and complementing with a distribution map, photos, a diagnostic key, and a comparative table to the herbaceous species of Suaeda in Argentina. Also, some comments regarding ecological and distributional features are discussed. This is the first record of S. paradoxa outside its native distribution range.