Comments on the distribution of Botrychium lunarioides (Ophioglossaceae) in Texas

Authors

W. C. Holmes, Baylor University
T. L. Morgan, Baylor University
Jeffrey R. Stevens, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
R. D. Gooch, Baylor University
J. R. Singhurst, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Date of this Version

4-1996

Comments

Published in Phytologia (April 1996) 80(4):280-283.

Abstract

Botrychium lunarioides (Michx.) Sw. (Ophioglossaceae) is now known to be widespread and abundant throughout the eastern portion of Texas. In 1996, Do, et al. reported ten additional county records in the central portion of the Post Oak Savannah of Texas, thereby extending the known distribution of the species up to 273 km to the west. Additional field studies during 1996 have yielded nineteen new county records for the species in Texas. These new reports are primarily from the Post Oak Savannah, Pineywoods, and Blackland Prairies of northeast Texas and from the southern portion of the Post Oak Savannah. The most notable occurrence of the species is at Lake Bastrop State Recreation Area, Bastrop County, about 45 km ESE of Austin, which extends both the western and southern known limits of the species.