''Roupala sphenophyllum'' is a species of
plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...
in the family
Proteaceae
The Proteaceae form a family (biology), family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genus, genera with about 1,660 known species. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentr ...
. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
.
References
Flora of Peru
sphenophyllum
''Sphenophyllum'' is a genus in the order Sphenophyllales. It has been placed in the family Sphenophyllaceae.
Species
Species that have been described include:
*†''Sphenophyllum angustifolium''
*†''Sphenophyllum biarmicum'' Zalessky (1937) ...
Vulnerable plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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