Keywords:
Andalusia, Baetic mountains, conservation, endemic flora, OrnithogalumAbstract
Cathissa villasina is a local endemic plant from the province of Jaen, which was confused for 35 years with the Ibero-North African endemism Cathissa reverchonii (?Ornithogalum reverchonii), since the misidentification of the material collected in 1985 at Sierra de Las Villas. During 2017, the localities of C. reverchonii in the Rondense district were studied for the “SEFA” project and, coincidentally, in that same year a new locality with few individuals was found in the Cazorlense district, which showed notable morphological and ecological discrepancies. A year later, a qualitative and quantitative morphometric study of the individuals from both phytogeographic territories began, finding differences, especially in carpological and seminal characters. In 2023, C. villasina was described as the first and, so far, the only endemic species of the Sierra de Las Villas. Its conservation status is very worrying, since unlike C. reverchonii, it lacks legal protection.
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