We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
VIOLA CALCICOLA (VIOLACEAE ), A NEW ENDEMIC VIOLET FROM THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS.
- Authors
McCauley, Ross A.; Ballard Jr., Harvey E.
- Abstract
Viola calcicola is described as growing in limestone located within protected springs and valleys of the Guadalupe Mountains in New Mexico and Texas. This violet is most similar macromorphologically and ecologically to V. egglestonii of east-central U.S. limestone cedar glades and micromorphologically to V. septemloba of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coast sand pine savannas. However, it diverges from all known heterophyllous-leaved taxa of Viola subsection Boreali-Americanae in many vegetative and reproductive features. It is removed by hundreds of kilometers from other putatively related heterophyllous-leaved violets, being the first record of lobed-leaved members of the subsection in the western U.S. and the second species of Viola found to be endemic to the Guadalupe Mountain region.
- Subjects
GUADALUPE Mountains (N.M. &; Tex.); UNITED States; VIOLACEAE; ENDEMIC plants; LIMESTONE; PLANT morphology; PLANT embryology
- Publication
Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 2013, Vol 7, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
1934-5259
- Publication type
Article