Affiliation:
1. Departamento de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Granada C/ Fuentenueva s/n 18001 Granada Spain
2. Departamento de Biología y Geología Grupo de Investigación Ecología de Zonas Áridas (ECOZONAR, RNM174), Centro de Colecciones Científicas de la Universidad de Almería (CECOUAL), Universidad de Almería Ctra. de Sacramento s/n, 04120 La Cañada de San Urbano Almería Spain
3. C/ Castillo 5, bajo F, 18140 La Zubia Granada Spain
4. Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Ecología y Ciencias de la Tierra, Área de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Extremadura 06006 Badajoz Spain
Abstract
AbstractA new genus and species, Castrila latens, native to the south‐eastern Iberian Peninsula, is described here for the first time and compared with its closest relatives. The plant is characterized by being annual, glabrous, having reduplicate leaves in whorls of (5)6–7, inflorescences capitate and involucrate, corolla shortly hypocrateriform and white, with yellowish doliiform tube, stamens included, and ovary and mericarps densely papillose. An endemic plant, it grows on the calcareous mountains of the Sierra Seca, Sierra de Castril, and Sierra de la Cabrilla, between 1800 and 2100 m of elevation, in the Granada and Jaén provinces (eastern Andalusia, Spain). For this genus and species, a description, an illustration, a distribution map, the chromosome number, the assessment of the conservation status, an estimate of the breeding system, and the situation in the Rubieae phylogenetic tree are provided.