New records of Tamarix ramosissima Ledeb. (Tamaricaceae) in basins of Western Chaco dry forest, northwestern Argentina

By

Pero, Edgardo Javier Ignacio

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017-12-8

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

13

Series / Issue

Issue: 6

Pages

925--930

Subjects

invasive alien plant , new record , saltcedar , tamarisk

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.925

 

Abstract

Different species of the exotic plant Tamarix have been registered as colonizing natural and semi-natural environ-ments in many provinces of Argentina. Nevertheless, the genus has not been cited for Tucumán or Santiago del Estero provinces, and not even for the Western Chaco dry forest ecoregion. The present work records the presence of Tamarix in riparian zones situated in different basins of Western Chaco ecoregion, namely in Tucumán and Santiago del Estero provinces, as well as the establishment of a T. ramosissima population in the Salí River basin in Tucumán.