Provisional catalogue of the flora of San Ignacio de Huinay, Chile

Abstract

Contribution to the vascular plants flora of San Ignacio de Huinay natural reserve, Comau fiord, Región de los Lagos, Chile. To date, 262 species with their herbaria sheets stored in 5 different American and European herbaria (CONC, M, MA, and SGO) and that of Huinay, are known in the territory. In this work some first new records for the South Cone are included, such as Potentilla anglica, Plantago media, and Mentha x rotundifolia. Furthermore, some of the records are new for the Flora of Chile, such as Juncus burkartii, only known from Argentina). Other species very scarcely cited in Chile, such as Solanum nigrum and Bromus squarrosus, are also included.

Keywords

• chile
• flora
• huinay
• x región
• vascular plants