Cyclolepis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.Tellería, M. C., et al. (2013). Pollen morphology and its taxonomic significance in the tribe Gochnatieae (Compositae, Gochnatioideae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 299(5), 935-48. The sole species, Cyclolepis genistoides, is native to South America, where it occurs in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and possibly Bolivia.Cyclolepis. Preliminary Checklist of the Compositae of Bolivia. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Version 2, March 2011. Its common names include matorro negro.
This is a dominant halophytic shrub in some saline habitat types, such as coastal habitat near Bahía Blanca Nebbia, A. J. and S. M. Zalba. (2007). Comunidades halófilas de la costa de la Bahía Blanca (Argentina): Caracterización, mapeo y cambios durante los últimos cincuenta años. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 42(3-4), 261-71.Krüger, H. R. and N. Peinemann. (1996). Coastal plain halophytes and their relation to soil ionic composition. Vegetatio 122(2), 143-50. and the inland salt marshes of central Argentina.Cantero, J. J., et al. (1998). Environmental relationships of vegetation patterns in saltmarshes of central Argentina. Folia Geobotanica 33(2), 133-45.
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