Echeveria coruana
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Ordo: Saxifragales
Familia: Crassulaceae
Genus: Echeveria
Name
Echeveria coruana I.García, D.Valentín & Costea sp. nov. – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
Echeveria coruana morphologically resembles most Echeveria patriotica and Echeveria purhepecha, with which it shares a similar flower morphology, but differs from both in having acaulescent or inconspicuous stems, acuminate leaves, and corolla appendages at the base of antipetalous stamen filaments. It differs from Echeveria patriotica in having smaller leaf rosettes, 10–15 cm in diameter, smaller inflorescences, 28–65 cm long, longer pedicels, (1.3) 1.6–2.2 mm and a narrower corolla, 7–9 mm in diameter. It can be distinguished from Echeveria purhepecha by the larger rosettes with spreading linear-oblanceolate to spathulate leaves, 8–16 cm long, and the larger corolla, 15–20 mm long, light-yellow to orange in the median part and orange-reddish at the tips of corolla lobes.
Type
MÉXICO. Michoacán: Municipio de Ziracuaretiro, lado noroeste de San Andrés Corú; 19°28.116'N, 101°57.410'W; 1730 m; bosque de encino-pino alterado con huertas de aguacate; 27 Nov 2015; I. García & M. García 9138 (holotype: CIMI!, isotypes: DAO!, ENCB!, IEB!, MEXU!, MICH!, WLU!).
Description
Perennial herb, glabrous, acaulescent or with an inconspicuous caudex, 3–8 cm long and 1–1.3 cm in diameter; rosette lax, 10–15 cm in diameter with 15–18 leaves; leaves fleshy, light-green to dark green in the median part and apex, leaf blade linear oblanceolate to spathulate, 8–16 × 2–2.5 cm, 0.5–1 cm thick at the base, margin entire, occasionally with a thin, red-colored line, apex acuminate, short mucronate, base narrowed to form a pseudo-petiole, 2–3 cm long, corrugated ventrally; inflorescence paniculiform thyrse, 1–3 per rosette, 28–65 cm long and 0.3–0.5 cm wide at the base, with 1–4 secondary axes (cincinni), each with 1–4(5) flowers; bracts spiralled, adpressed, green to yellowish-red, oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 0.8–7.2 × 0.6–3 cm, 1.2–1.5 mm thick in the median part and 7–8.5 mm at the base, base auriculate, soon caducous; pedicels (1.3–) 1.6–2.2 mm long and 2–3 mm thick; calyx gamosepalous, star-shaped, the tube 1–1.5 mm long, lobes green, unequal, 6–9 × 3–4 mm, spreading to somewhat reflexed at anthesis, triangular-lanceolate; corolla pentagonal-conical in bud, cylindrical-urceolate at anthesis, petals 15–21 × 4–6.5 mm, fused for 1–1.5 mm at the base, lanceolate, carenate, tips mucronate, erect to slightly deflexed, color whitish-yellow at the base, light-yellow to orange in the median part and orange-reddish at the tips; nectaries reniform, 1.8–2.2 × 0.8–1 mm, white-yellowish; stamens 10, 5 antipetalous, 9–16 mm long (including the anthers), with a pair of conical or dome-like appendages at the base, 0.2–0.3 mm long; episepalous stamens 5, 10–16 mm long (including anthers); pollen polymorphic, most abundant type is 3-colpate, oblate to oblate-spheroidal in equatorial view and triangular or round in polar view, 30–34 × 17–20 mm, less common grains are 3-colpate, prolate, 34–38 × 18–20 mm or 4-colpate, rectangular or spherical, 28–31 × 17–20 mm; in all pollen grains tectum is imperforate, scabrate; pollen grains eventually agglutinate into large masses; ovary with 5 apocarpous carpels, 9–11 × 0.3–0.4 mm; styles (including the stigmas) 4–5 mm long, red-purplish; follicles 5–6 mm long, erect to somewhat spreading; seeds numerous, oblong to obovate, light to dark-brown, reticulate, 0.5–0.65 × 0.2–0.25 mm; reticulum size 15–30 mm.
Discussion
A detailed comparison of Echeveria coruana with Echeveria patriotica and Echeveria purhepecha is presented in Table 1. If these three species are related from an evolutionary point of view, the corolla appendages have evolved at least two times in ser. Gibbiflorae. The antipetalous stamen appendages of Echeveria coruana are considerably smaller and less complex than those of Echeveria novogaliciana, Echeveria marianae, Echeveria dactylifera and Echeveria rulfiana, the other species of ser. Gibbiflorae that are known to possess them (García and Costea 2014[1], Jimeno-Sevilla et al. 2015[2]). García and Costea (2014)[1] indicated that these appendages do not have a secretory function and their role may be to protect the nectar accumulated at the base of petals from pollinators lacking a specialized feeding apparatus. In Echeveria coruana, the appendages are too small to cover the corolla cavities in which nectar accumulates. Alternatively, if Echeveria coruana is evolutionarily related to these latter four species, the reduction of antipetalous corolla appendages in Echeveria coruana likely indicates the loss of this hypothetical nectar defense function. Corolla appendages at the base of stamens have also evolved in Pachyphytum (Walther 1972[3], Thiede and Eggli 2007[4]), a genus that forms a sister clade to the remaining “Echeveria group” (Carrillo-Reyes et al. 2009[5]). A molecular study for ser. Gibbiflorae with more extensive sampling that of Carrillo and et al. (2009) is necessary to understand the evolutionary relationships among the numerous members of this group (Walther 1972[3]), including the several recently described species.
Ecology
The new species grows in the understory of mixed pine-oak and tropical deciduous forest on volcanic basaltic rocky outcrops or small ledges. However, it has also been observed growing epiphytically on Quercus sp. The tree layer is dominated by Quercus magnoliifolia Née, Ficus membranacea C. Wright, Juglans major (Torr.) Heller, Photinia microcarpa Standl., Bursera ariensis (H.B.K.) Mc. Vaugh & Rzed., and Clusia salvinii Donn.; the most common shrubs are Bursera bipinnata (Sessé & Moc. ex DC.) Engl., Montanoa bipinnatifida (Kunth) C. Koch, Montanoa frutescens (Mairet) ex DC. and Rhus terebinthifolia Schltdl. & Cham. The herbaceous understory vegetation includes among others: Arenaria lanuginosa (Michx.) Rohrb, Bonplandia geminiflora Cav., Tripogandra amplexicaulis (Klotzsch ex C.B. Clarke) Woodson, Phaseolus acutifolius var. latifolius G.F. Freeman, and Dryopteris maxonii Underw. & C. Chr.
Phenology
November to January.
Etymology
The specific epithet derives from San Andrés Corú, the nearest village to the malpaís where the species was discovered. “Corú” in the local Purhépecha language means “a place where the quails sing”.
Conservation status
Echeveria coruana is currently known only from three populations located at ca. 1–2 km from one another in the malpaís of San Andrés Corú. Although it is relatively common in the studied sites, it is threatened because of the increasing demand and exploitation of volcanic rocks in the area. Furthermore, the recent establishment of avocado orchards at elevations of 1670–1750 m has led to significant habitat loss in the area, and this practice is likely to continue in the future. Although it was not possible to use GeoCAT (Bachman et al. 2011[6]) to calculate the extent of occurrence because of the reduced number of localities from which the species is known, we determined the area of occupancy, which was 8 square km (based on 2 km cells). Therefore, using the IUCN (2012) criteria B2 biii, we preliminarily categorize this species as Critically Endangered (CR). More research in the field will be carried out in the future to determine the best strategy to mitigate the above mentioned threats.
Additional specimens examined
México. Michoacán: Municipio de Ziracuaretiro, Malpaís de San Andrés Corú, bosque de encino-pino, 1676 m, 1 Dec 2012, D. Valentín 502 (CIMI!, EBUM!); Malpaís de San Andrés Corú, lado oeste-suroeste de San Andrés Corú, 1660 m, 29 Apr 2015, I. García, D. Valentín and A. Fuentes 9078 (CIMI!).
Original Description
- García-Ruiz, I; Valentín-Martínez, D; Carrillo-Reyes, P; Costea, M; 2016: Taxonomic and floristic novelties for Echeveria (Crassulaceae) in Central Michoacan, Mexico PhytoKeys, (75): 1-12. doi
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Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 García R, Costea M (2014) Echeveria marianae (Crassulaceae), a new species from Jalisco, México. Phytotaxa 170(1): 35–040. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.170.1.4
- ↑ Jimeno-Sevilla H, Santana-Michel F, Carrillo-Reyes P (2015) Dos especies nuevas de Crassulaceae del Sur de Jalisco, México. Acta Botanica Mexicana 110: 71–88.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Walther E (1972) Echeveria. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 426 pp.
- ↑ Thiede J, Eggli U (2007) Crassulaceae. In: Kubitzki K (Ed.) Flowering Plants. Eudicots, Vol. 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 83–118. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-32219-1_12
- ↑ Carrillo-Reyes P, Sosa V, Mort M (2009) Molecular phylogeny of the Acre clade (Crassulaceae): Dealing with the lack of definitions for Echeveria and Sedum. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53: 267–276. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.022
- ↑ Bachman S, Moat J, Hil A, de la Torre J, Scott B (2011) Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool. ZooKeys 150: 117–126. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2109