Pseudognaphalium Gaudichaudianum
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''Pseudognaphalium gaudichaudianum'',
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including ''Gnaphalium imbaburense'' and ''Gnaphalium sodiroi'', is a species of
flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
in the family
Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...
. It is widely distributed in
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, from
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in the north to southern
Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
.


Conservation

''Gnaphalium imbaburense'' was assessed as "
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" for the 2003
IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological ...
. ''Gnaphalium sodiroi'' was assessed for the same list as "
critically endangered An IUCN Red List critically endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. As of December 2023, of t ...
". Both are said to be native only to
Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
. , ''G. imbaburense'' and ''G. sodiroi'' were regarded as two of many synonyms of ''Pseudognaphalium gaudichaudianum'', which has a much wider distribution.


References

Data deficient plants Flora of Southern America imbaburense Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{gnaphalieae-stub