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Tetroncium

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Tetroncium is a genus of plants in the Juncaginaceae described as a genus in 1808.^[2]^[3] It contains only one known species, Tetroncium magellanicum, known from a few sub-Antarctic islands: Tierra Del Fuego (Chile and Argentina), Falkland Islands, and Gough Island.^[1]^[4]^[5]^[6]The plant got the name magellanicum because the original description was describing the sample found near the Strait of Magellan.^[7]

^ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von. 1808. Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin Magazin für die neuesten Entdeckungen in der Gesammten Naturkunde 2: 17
^ Tropicos, Tetroncium Willd.
^ Moore, D. M. 1974. Plantas vasculares nativas de Tierra del Fuego. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia: Serie Ciencias Naturales, Punta Arenas (Chile) 5(142): 107–119
^ Dudley, T. R. 1981. Notas taxonómicas y de nomenclatura sobre la Flora de Islas de los Estados, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Rhodora 83: 477–579
^ Moore, D. M. 1965. Some recent records of native and alien flowering plants from the Falkland Islands. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 7: 29–35.
^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256600711_Tetroncium_and_its_only_species_T_magellanicum_Juncaginaceae_Distribution_ecology_and_lectotypification

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Tetroncium is a genus of plants in the Juncaginaceae described as a genus in 1808. It contains only one known species, Tetroncium magellanicum, known from a few sub-Antarctic islands: Tierra Del Fuego (Chile and Argentina), Falkland Islands, and Gough Island.The plant got the name magellanicum because the original description was describing the sample found near the Strait of Magellan.