Dieteria

Dieteria
Dieteria canescens var. canescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae
Genus: Dieteria
Nutt.
Synonyms[1]
  • Machaeranthera series Variabiles Cronquist & D.D.Keck
  • Machaeranthera subg. Dieteria (Nutt.) Greene
  • Aster subg. Hesperastrum (A.Gray) A.Gray

Dieteria is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

The genus Dieteria is distinguished from the genus Machaeranthera by having entire to toothed leaves, whereas Machaeranthera has once or twice pinnate leaves.[8][9]

Species[1][10]
  1. Dieteria asteroides Torr. - Chihuahua, Durango, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado
  2. Dieteria bigelovii (A.Gray) D.R.Morgan & R.L.Hartm. - Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming
  3. Dieteria canescens (Pursh) Nutt. - most of western United States and western Canada; Sonora

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. ↑ Nuttall, Thomas. 1840. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 7: 300–302 in English
  3. ↑ Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. "Details for: Astereae". Euro+Med PlantBase. Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  4. ↑ UniProt. "Tribe Astereae" (HTML). Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  5. ↑ National Herbarium of New South Wales. "Genus Kippistia". New South Wales FloraOnline. Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  6. ↑ "Polyarrhena Cass.". African Plants Database. South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  7. ↑ Tropicos, Dieteria Nutt.
  8. ↑ Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd Ed. 2013, p. 39
  9. ↑ Flora of North America Dieteria Nuttall
  10. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps