Hygrophila urquiolae (Acanthaceae), a new wetland species from Cuba

• Autores: Werner Greuter, Rosa Rankin Rodríguez, Alejandro Palmarola-Bejerano
• Localización: Willdenowia: Annals of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, ISSN 0511-9618, ISSN-e 1868-6397, Vol. 39, Nº. 2, 2009, págs. 285-291
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hygrophila urquiolae is described in detail and compared with the second Cuban species of the same genus, H. costata. It appears to be a taxonomically isolated species without close known relatives. At present it is known from a single locality in Matanzas Province, close to the northern coast of Cuba, where it belongs to a wetland community with clear affinities to the flora of Florida. As a specimen of unknown provenance, found in a Cuban herbarium, also represents the new species, one may assume that it occurs in other similar habitats of the island as well.