Tetroncium

Tetroncium is a genus of plants in the Juncaginaceae described as a genus in 1808.[2][3] It contains only one known species, Tetroncium magellanicum, known from a few sub-Antarctic islands: Tierra Del Fuego (Chile and Argentina), Falkland Islands, and Gough Island.[1][4][5][6] The plant got the name magellanicum because the original description was describing the sample found near the Strait of Magellan.[7]

Tetroncium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Juncaginaceae
Genus: Tetroncium
Willd.
Species:
T. magellanicum
Binomial name
Tetroncium magellanicum
Synonyms[1]
  • Cathanthes Rich.
  • Triglochin magellanica Vahl ex Kunth
  • Triglochin reflexa Vahl. ex Kunth

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von. 1808. Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin Magazin für die neuesten Entdeckungen in der Gesammten Naturkunde 2: 17
  3. Tropicos, Tetroncium Willd.
  4. Moore, D. M. 1974. Plantas vasculares nativas de Tierra del Fuego. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia: Serie Ciencias Naturales, Punta Arenas (Chile) 5(142): 107–119
  5. Dudley, T. R. 1981. Notas taxonómicas y de nomenclatura sobre la Flora de Islas de los Estados, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Rhodora 83: 477–579
  6. Moore, D. M. 1965. Some recent records of native and alien flowering plants from the Falkland Islands. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 7: 29–35.
  7. Mering, Sabine von (2013). "Tetroncium and its only species, T. magellanicum (Juncaginaceae): Distribution, ecology and lectotypification". Willdenowia. 43: 13–24. doi:10.3372/wi.43.43102. S2CID 84914061.


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