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Additions To The Vascular Flora Of San Clemente Island, Los Angeles County, California, With Notes On Clarifications And Deletions, Timothy S. Ross, Steve Boyd, Steve Junak
Additions To The Vascular Flora Of San Clemente Island, Los Angeles County, California, With Notes On Clarifications And Deletions, Timothy S. Ross, Steve Boyd, Steve Junak
Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany
The number of vascular plant taxa reported from San Clemente Island, California, is briefly summarized. Recent additions to the vascular flora are presented and, with one exception, representative voucher specimens are cited as substantiation. Of the taxa di scussed, 68 are previously unreported taxa, and six are substantiations of previously dubious reports. An additional dozen taxa are cited in relation to clarifications or deletions. Based on current knowledge, we estimate the known flora to consist of 396 species with an additional 19 infraspecific taxa represented. Of these 415 taxa, 69.2% (272 speciesl15 additional subspecies or varieties) are considered indigenous to …