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Festuca giraldoi (Loliinae, Poaeceae), a new species from Argentina, with a revision of the taxonomic concept and identity of Festuca lilloi

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Festuca is a genus of the Poaceae family with about 140 species in South America. Little information is available about Festuca species growing in the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas in Argentina, a region with a significant degree of endemism. The taxonomic delimitation of some species of this region is imprecise. One such taxon is Festuca lilloi, which has not only been recognized as a native species of the Peruvian Andes or endemic to the Western Sierras Pampeanas (northern Argentina), but also as a dominant floristic element in the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas (central Argentina). In spite of its ubiquity, there is very little information on variation in its morphology, anatomy and ecology across the Sierras Pampeanas and in adjacent areas. Recent fieldwork has resulted in the finding of a new species of Festuca that was erroneously assigned to Festuca lilloi. Morphological and anatomical differences between F. lilloi and the close species are evaluated, as are the species’ ecological preferences. The delimitation of the new species, named here as Festuca giraldoi, follows the morphological species concept. A detailed description of the morphology, leaf anatomy and epidermal micromorphology (leaf and lemma) is provided for the new species.

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JCO thanks Steven P. Sylvester and Mitsy D.P.V. Sylvester for their accompaniment in the study of the Festuca species from the central Andes, Diego Giraldo-Cañas (ICN, Colombia) for unconditional support, the CONICET organization (Argentina), the Instituto de Ecoregiones Andinas (Jujuy, Argentina) and the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion (Argentina) for institutional support for his PhD study and post-doctoral research. PIP thanks Julieta Filloy, lead coordinator of the project in the frame of which part of the collections of the new species were obtained and the Universidad de Buenos Aires for the UBACYT grant which enabled the corresponding fieldwork. All authors thank Dr Leopoldo Iannone for the provision of new specimens of the new species described in this work, the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT) and the Fondo Nacional para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (FONCyT) for financing the research stipulated in the project PICT 2016 N°1516 and Francisco Rojas for the drawings of Festuca giraldoi.

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  2. Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas (INECOA-CONICET), Av. Bolivia 1239, Casilla de Correo, 4400, San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina

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Ospina, J.C., Picca, P.I. Festuca giraldoi (Loliinae, Poaeceae), a new species from Argentina, with a revision of the taxonomic concept and identity of Festuca lilloi. Folia Geobot 54, 291–306 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12224-019-09344-5

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