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Species of flowering plant
Lilaeopsis schaffneriana is a rare species of flowering plant in the family
Apiaceae known by the common names Schaffner's grasswort
[4] and cienega false rush .
[5]
Lilaeopsis schaffneriana subsp. schaffneriana is found in
Dominican Republic ,
Ecuador , and
Mexico (in the
Federal District and the following
states :
Chihuahua ,
Coahuila ,
Durango ,
Hidalgo ,
Jalisco ,
México ,
Michoacán ,
Nuevo León ,
Oaxaca ,
Puebla ,
San Luis Potosí , and
Tlaxcala ).
[6]
Lilaeopsis schaffneriana subsp. recurva (Huachuca water umbel ), is a federally listed
endangered species (status
G4T2 , imperiled) of the United States.
[7] It is limited to
desert
wetlands [
clarification needed ] , including a rare type of desert
marsh habitat called a
cienega [
clarification needed ] . There are 8 populations in
Arizona and four more south of the border in Mexico.
[8]
Conservation
The species is extremely reliant on water level for its survival.
[9]
References
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b
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d Under its current treatment as Lilaeopsis schaffneriana , this species was published in Botanical Gazette 24: 48. 1897.
"Lilaeopsis schaffneriana " .
Germplasm Resources Information Network .
Agricultural Research Service ,
United States Department of Agriculture . Retrieved January 16, 2012 .
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"Name - Lilaeopsis schaffneriana (Schltdl.) J.M.Coult. & Rose synonyms" . Tropicos .
Saint Louis, Missouri :
Missouri Botanical Garden . Retrieved January 16, 2012 .
^ Crantzia schaffneriana , the basionym of Lilaeopsis schaffneriana , was first described and published in Linnaea 26: 370. 1854.
"Name - !Crantzia schaffneriana Schltdl" . Tropicos . Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved January 16, 2012 .
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"Profile for Lilaeopsis schaffneriana (Schaffner's grasswort)" . PLANTS Database .
USDA ,
NRCS . Retrieved January 16, 2012 .
^
"Lilaeopsis schaffneriana var. recurva (Cienega False Rush)" . NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life .
Arlington, Virginia :
The Nature Conservancy . July 2011. Retrieved January 16, 2012 .
^
"Lilaeopsis schaffneriana subsp. schaffneriana " .
Germplasm Resources Information Network .
Agricultural Research Service ,
United States Department of Agriculture . Retrieved January 16, 2012 .
^
"Lilaeopsis schaffneriana var. recurva, Huachuca water umbel" . Threatened, Endangered, and Proposed (TEP) Plant Profile . U.S. Forest Service. Retrieved 2019-09-04 .
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L. s. var. recurva .
Archived 2011-08-28 at the
Wayback Machine Center for Plant Conservation.
^ Malcom, Jacob W.; Malcom, Anna C.; Radke, William R. (2017-01-06).
"Water (or the lack thereof), management, and conservation of an endangered desert wetland obligate, Lilaeopsis schaffneriana var. recurva" .
doi :
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2699v1 .
External links
Lilaeopsis schaffneriana Crantzia schaffneriana