Senecio iscoensis or Aetheolaena senecioidesis is a species of Senecio in the Asteraceae family. It is found only in Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss. A subshrub endemic to Ecuador, where it is known from three collections in the central and northern Andes. First recorded by L. Sodiro, probably at the Hacienda Isco, in the foothills of Volcán Antisana and probably inside the reserve of the Reserva Ecológica Antisana,[1] a privately owned reserve whose goal is the preservation of the native flora and fauna of the Andean páramo.[3] S. icoensis might be a synonym of S. antisanae.[4] Habitat destruction is the only known threat to the species.[1] DistributionReferences
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