Eriocoma bracteata (Swallen) Romasch. (2019:97)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Stipa bracteata Swallen in J. Washington Acad. Sci. 30: 213 (1940); Achnatherum bracteatum (Swallen) Valdés-Reyna & Barkworth in Cat. New World Grasses 4: 15 (2003); Jarava bracteata (Swallen) D.L.Fu in Amer. J. Agric. Forest. 12: 251 (2024)
Conservation Status
Extinct (O'Brien et al., 2025)
Last (and only) record: 4 April 1931 (O'Brien et al., 2025:79)
Distribution & Habitat
grassy flat and adjacent slopes 25 miles north of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M. T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J. J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. and Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
Gould, F. W. and Moran, R. V. (1981). The grasses of Baja California, Mexico. San Diego Society of Natural History, Memoir 12. 140 pp.
O'Brien, Bart C., Rebman, Jon P., Delgadillo-Rodríguez, José, Gandhi, Kanchi Natarajan, Junak, Steven A., Oberbauer, Thomas A., Riemann, Hugo and Vanderplank, Sula E. (2025). The Rare, Endangered and Endemic Plants of the California Floristic Province Portion of Baja California, Mexico. Aliso 43(2): 77-217. https://doi.org/10.5642/aliso.YOAJ6071
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