Galapagos Species Database

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Darwiniothamnus lancifolius subsp. glandulosus Harling

margarita de Darwin

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A woody dome-shaped shrub. The lance-shaped leaves grow in whorls up the branches. The white daisy-like flowers occur in groups and are normally present all year round.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)

Order
Asterales

Family
Asteraceae

Genus
Darwiniothamnus

Species
lancifolius

Subspecies
subsp. glandulosus

Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa

Origin: Endemic

Status

Near threatened

References

  • Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
  • Hendrix, L.B. Smith, S.D. (1986) Post eruption revegetation of Isla Fernandina, Galapagos II. (NB no recs cited in Lawesson et al. nor in database.) Nat. Geograph. Research 2(1): 6-16.
  • Lawesson, J.E. Adsersen, H. & Bentley, P. (1987) An updated and annotated check list of the vascular plants of the Galapagos islands. Rept. Bot. Inst., Univ. Aarhus 16: 1-74.
  • Andrus, N. Tye, A., Nesom, G., Bogler, D., Lewis,C., Noyes, R., Jaramillo, P. & Francisco-Ortega, J. (2009) Phylogenetics of Darwiniothamnus (Asteraceae: Astereae) – molecular evidence for multiple origins in the endemic flora of the Galápagos Islands. Journal Biogeography 36(6): 1055-1069.
  • Valencia, R. Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. & Jørgensen, P.M. (2000) Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador. Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Ecuador 2000 i–iv, 1–489.
  • Itow, S. (1997) List of Plant Specimens collected in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Natural Science, 38 (1): 53-144.
  • Liu, H. Tye, A., Jaramillo, P., Simbaña, W., Madriz, P., An, S., Wang, Z., Xu, X., Wang, F. G., Xu, H., Song, X. Q., Trusty, J., Maunder, M., Lewis, C. &Francisco-Ortega, J. (2012) Science at Fairchild: Conservation and biodiversity on Pacific Ocean Islands. Tropical Garden 65(1): 28-31.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Darwiniothamnus lancifolius subsp. glandulosus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=304. Accessed 22 February 2025.