The Reserva de la Biosfera Barranca de Metztitlan (Hidalgo): An illustrated checklist of bromeliads and orchids and their high levels of Mexican endemisms.

ABSTRACT: This study presents a list of species of the two most important families with epiphytic elements, Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae, from the Reserva de la Biosfera Barranca de Metztitlán (RBBM), the largest Reserve in Hidalgo, Mexico. Thirty-four species are included, 26 corresponding to species in three genera of bromeliads, and eight species in six genera of orchids. The new records represent 26.5% of the total listed in the area; nine of them are new records for the Reserve (RBBM) and one is new for Hidalgo State. This study reveals that endemism for both families is very important in the Reserve (55.88%), since it includes 13 Mexican bromeliads, of which two are endemic to Hidalgo and one to the Reserve, and three orchids, two endemic to Mexico and one to the Reserve. We found species with

SUBMITTER: Hornung-Leoni CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6424952 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature