RELACION DE ALGUNAS PLANTAS Y HONGOS MEXICANOS RAROS, AMENAZADOS O EN PELIGRO DE EXTINCION Y SUGERENCIAS PARA SU CONSERVACION
Tags: ENDANGERED species; PLANT species; VEGETATION & climate; FUNGI; BOTANICAL gardens; NUMERICAL analysis
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A recently concluded inventory reveals that 68 species of wild flowering plants registered in the past century or in the first half of the present one as members of the native flora of the Valley of Mexico, do not seem to exist any more in the area. Five of these species (Acourtia matudae,...
