Corsiaceae
Arachnitis

Arachnitis uniflora Phil.

First published in Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 22: 217 (1864)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Central Peru, Central Bolivia, Central & S. Chile to Falkland Islands. It is a holomycotrophic perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina South, Bolivia, Chile Central, Chile South, Falkland Is., Peru

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
  • Zuloaga, F.O. & Morrone, O. (eds.) (1996). Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledoneae). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de la República Argentina 1: 1-323. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.

Kew Bulletin

  • (Philippi 1864: 217).
  • Bachman, S., Moat, J., Hill, A., de la Torre, J. & Scott, B. (2011). Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool. ZooKeys 150: 117 – 126.
  • Beccari, O. (1878). Malesia 1: 238.
  • Bidartondo, M. I., Redecker, D., Hijri, I., Wiemken, A., Bruns, T. D., Domínguez, L., Sérsic, A., Leake, J. R. & Read, D. J. (2002). Epiparasitic plants specialized on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nature 419: 389 – 392.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J. L. (1993). Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45: 1 – 1286.
  • Cribb, P. J., Wilkin, P. & Clements, M. (1995). Corsiaceae: a new family for the Falklands Islands. Kew Bull. 50: 171 – 172.
  • Dimitri, M. J. (1972). Una nueva especie del género Arachnitis Phil. (Corsiaceae). Rev. Fac. Agron. Univ. Nac. La Plata 48: 37 – 45.
  • Domínguez, L. S., Melville, L., Sersic, A., Faccio, A. & Peterson, R. L. (2009). The mycoheterotroph Arachnitis uniflora has a unique association with arbuscular mycorrhizal Fungi. Botany 87: 1198 – 1208.
  • Huamantupa, I., Vásquez, R., Foster, R., Cuba, M. & Calatayud, G. (2014). Adiciones de angiospermas a la Flora del Perú procedentes de los bosques Andino Amazónicos del sur peruano. Rev. Peru. Biol. 21: 163 – 170.
  • IUCN (2017). Guidelines for using the IUCN Red List categories and criteria. Version 11. Prepared by the Standards and Petitions Subcommittee in March 2017. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org/documents/RedListGuidelines.pdf. Accessed 21 Dec 2017.
  • Ibisch, P. L., Neinhuis, C. & Rojas, N. P. (1996). On the biology, biogeography, and taxonomy of Arachnitis Phil. nom. cons. (Corsiaceae) in respect to a new record from Bolivia. Willdenowia 26: 321 – 332.
  • Jones, D. L. & Gray, B. (2008). Corsia dispar D. L. Jones & B. Gray (Corsiaceae), a new species from Australia, and a new combination in Corsia for a New Guinea taxon. Austrobaileya 7: 717 – 722.
  • León, B., Pitman, N. & Roque, J. (2006). Introducción a las plantas endémicas del Perú. Rev. Peru. Biol. 13: 9s – 22s.
  • Mennes, C. B., Lam, V. K. Y., Rudall, P. J., Lyon, S. P., Graham, S. W., Smets, E. F. & Merckx, V. S. F. T. (2015). Ancient Gondwana break-up explains the distribution of the mycoheterotrophic family Corsiaceae (Liliales). J. Biogeogr. 42: 1123 – 1136.
  • Merckx, V. S. F. T., Freudenstein, J. V., Kissling, J., Christenhusz, M. J. M., Stotler, R. E., Crandall-Stotler, B., Wickett, N., Rudall, P. J., Maas-van de Kamer, H. & Maas, P. J. M. (2013). Taxonomy and classification. In: V. S. F. T. Merckx (ed.), Mycoheterotrophy: The Biology of Plants Living on Fungi, pp. 19 – 101. Springer, New York.
  • Minoletti, O. M. L. (1986). Arachnitis uniflora Phil. una curiosa monocotiledonea de la Flora Chilena. Bol. Soc. Biol. Concepción 57: 7 – 20.
  • Neinhuis, C. & Ibisch, P. L. (1998). Corsiaceae. In: K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Vol. 3, Lilianae (except Orchidaceae), pp. 198 – 201. Springer, Berlin.
  • Philippi, R. A. (1864). Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 22: 217.
  • Pisano, E. (1996). Corsiaceae, nueva familia para la flora vascular de Magallanes y una nueva especie para la flora de Chile. Anales Inst. Patagonia Ser. Ci. Nat. 24: 5 – 13.
  • Renny, M., Acosta, M. C., Cofré, N., Domínguez, L. S., Bidartondo, M. I. & Sérsic, N. A. (2017). Genetic diversity patterns of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with the mycoheterotroph Arachnitis uniflora Phil. (Corsiaceae). Ann. Bot. 119: 1279 – 1294.
  • Rodríguez, E., Vásquez, R., Rojas, R., León, B., Calatayud, G. & Campos, J. (2006). Nuevas adiciones de angiospermas a la flora del Perú. Rev. Peru. Biol. 13: 129 – 138.
  • Thiers, B. (2017). Index herbariorum: a global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. Available at: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/. Accessed 5 Dec 2017.
  • Ulloa Ulloa, C., Zarucchi, J. L. & León, B. (2004). Diez años de adiciones a la flora del Perú: 1993 – 2003. Arnaldoa Edición Especial 2004: 1 – 242.
  • Vasquez, R. & Rojas, R. D. P. (2016). Clave para identificar grupos de familias de Gymnospermae y Angiospermae del Perú. Jardín Botánico de Missouri. Available at: http://www.jbmperu.org/curso/Clave_Identificacion_Plantas.pdf. Accessed 20 Jan 2018.
  • Vogel, S. (1978). Pilzmückenblumen als Pilzmimeten. Flora 167: 329 – 398.
  • Zhang, D., Saunders, R. M. K. & Hu, C.-M. (1999). Corsiopsis chinensis gen. et sp. nov. Corsiaceae: first record of the family in Asia. Syst. Bot. 24: 311 – 314.
  • ____, Acevedo-Rodríguez, P., Beck, S., Belgrano, M. J., Bernal, R., Berry, P. E., Brako, L., Celis, M., Davidse, G., Forzza, R. C., Gradstein, S. R., Hokche, O., León, B., León-Yánez, S., Magill, R. E., Neill, D. A., Nee, M., Raven, P. H., Stimmel, H., Strong, M. T., Villaseñor, J. L., Zarucchi, J. L., Zuloaga, F. O. & Jørgensen, P. M. (2017). An integrated assessment of the vascular plant species of the Americas. Science 358: 1614 – 1617.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Philippi, R.A. [s.n.], Chile K000524619 Yes
JK [s.n.], Chile K000524618 Yes
Philippi, R.A. [s.n.], Chile K000524617 Yes

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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  • Kew Science Photographs

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