Wimmeranthus Explained

Wimmeranthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Campanulaceae. It contains a single species, Wimmeranthus inopinatus, an annual endemic to Oaxaca in southwestern Mexico.[1]

It is known from a specimen collected near San Juan Mixtepec in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, growing in a forest of Juniperus flaccida, Annona cherimola, and Bursera bipinnata on shallow and rocky soil at 1,800 meters elevation.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wimmeranthus Rzed. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 13 March 2021 . en.
  2. Rzedowski, J. 2018. Tres novedades de Campanulaceae-Lobelioideae del estado de Oaxaca (México). Phytoneuron 2018-15: 1–9. Published 28 March 2018. ISSN 2153-733X