New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Nothofagus leoni Espinosa, a natural hybrid between Nothofagus obliqua (Mirb.) Oerst. and Nothofagus glauca (Phil.) Krasser

C. Donoso

Facultad de Ingenieria Forestal, Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile

L. R. Landrum

Department of Botany, University of Michigan, Michigan, U.S.A.

Abstract Nothofagus glauca and N. obliqua are deciduous species whose habitats overlap in some moist sites in the coastal mountains of Chile between the Maule and the Itata Rivers and in the Andes around 100O-1100 m between the Maule and the Nuble Rivers as well as in some areas in the lowlands. N. leoni is found as scattered trees where the distributions of these two species overlap. This condition and some earlier references give a basis for hypothesising that N. leoni is a hybrid between N. glauca and N. obliqua.

Received 15 March 1979
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1979, Vol. 17:353-60

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