Chemical and morphological study of a putative hybrid between Luzuriaga radicans and L. polyphylla (Monocotyledoneae: Luzuriagaceae)

Abstract

Patterns of headspace volatiles and flavonoids extracts from flowers of sympatric populations of Luzuriaga radicans Ruiz et Pav. (Monocotyledoneae: Luzuriagaceae), L. polyphylla (Hook.) J.FMacbr., and a Luzuriaga taxon which presented some morphological characters of one of the species and other characters of the other species, suggest that this latter taxon is a hybrid between the two accepted species.

Keywords:

• flower headspace volatiles
• flower flavonoid patterns
• hybridisation