Author(s):
Bernardos, Sónia 
; Amado, Anabela ; Aguiar, Carlos ; Santos, C. ; Fernández Diez, Javier ; Gonzalez-Talavan, A. ; Amich, Francisco
Date: 2006
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/5398
Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
Subject(s): Plant Conservation; Scrophulariaceae; Flora of Portugal
Description
Antirrhinum lopesianum Rothm. is a narrow endemic of the Lusitan Duriensean biogeographical sector (central western Spain
and north-eastern Portugal). The species is listed as threatened in several Spanish documents, although it does not figure as
such in any Portuguese document. This paper provides a detailed study of its distribution, estimates of the sizes of its
populations, the threats it faces, and its current conservation status. The total number of individuals thought to exist is only
768, distributed along the valley of the River Duero on the Spanish – Portuguese border (562, 71.2%), and in the Portuguese
Sabor River valley (206, 26.8%). The main threat to the species is loss of habitat: about one third of the Iberian populations
can be considered threatened; one population containing 37.6% of all these plants (289) is severely threatened. To
determine the Area of Occupancy and the Extent of Occurrence, an exhaustive bibliographical survey was carried out, and
herbarium specimens deposited in several institutions were revised. It is, therefore, classifiable as Critically Endangered in
Portugal and Endangered in Spain
