Diplostephium

Diplostephium
Diplostephium phylicoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae
Genus: Diplostephium
Kunth
Type species
Diplostephium lavandulifolium [1]
Kunth
Synonyms[2]
  • Simblocline DC.
  • Linochilus Benth.
  • Piofontia Cuatrec.

Diplostephium is a genus of trees and shrubs in the sunflower family.[3][1]

Diplostephium is distributed on high mountains zones from Venezuela to Chile with the exception of two species in Costa Rica (INBio information system, July 2005) and twelve in the "Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta" (Colombia). It makes part of the high andean forest and the paramo ecosystems. Colombia has the most species with 63 (Vargas & Madriñán, 2006), the majority of them found in the Oriental Cordillera, which has 33 registered species until this moment. Diplostephium is the third most diverse genus on the paramos with 70 species after Pentacalia and Senecio (Luteyn, 1999).

According to José Cuatrecasas, (1986) the genus is an element of Neotropical origin that could have reached the paramos from the southern latitudes of South America; where the primitive arboreal species can be found in the high Andean forest while the most advanced members can be found in the paramos and super-paramos. This reinforces previous theories from Cuatrecasas (1969), who proposed as atavistic characteristics the morphologies present in the arboreal species of high Andean forest. Based on this, Cuatrecasas made a phylogenetic ordination into natural groups or series where the derived species are more diverse and are found at high altitudes.

Accepted Species[2]
  1. Diplostephium abietinum
  2. Diplostephium alveolatum
  3. Diplostephium anactinotum
  4. Diplostephium antioquense
  5. Diplostephium apiculatum
  6. Diplostephium asplundii
  7. Diplostephium azureum
  8. Diplostephium barclayanum
  9. Diplostephium bicolor
  10. Diplostephium cajamarquillense
  11. Diplostephium callaense
  12. Diplostephium callilepis
  13. Diplostephium camargoanum
  14. Diplostephium carabayense
  15. Diplostephium cayambense
  16. Diplostephium chrysotrichum
  17. Diplostephium cinerascens
  18. Diplostephium cinereum
  19. Diplostephium colombianum
  20. Diplostephium coriaceum
  21. Diplostephium costaricense
  22. Diplostephium crassifolium
  23. Diplostephium crypteriophyllum
  24. Diplostephium cyparissias
  25. Diplostephium dentatum
  26. Diplostephium ellipticum
  27. Diplostephium empetrifolium
  28. Diplostephium ericoides
  29. Diplostephium eriophorum
  30. Diplostephium espinosae
  31. Diplostephium farallonense
  32. Diplostephium fernandez-alonsoi
  33. Diplostephium floribundum
  34. Diplostephium foliosissimum
  35. Diplostephium fosbergii
  36. Diplostephium friedbergii
  37. Diplostephium frontinense
  38. Diplostephium glandulosum
  39. Diplostephium glutinosum
  40. Diplostephium gnidioides
  41. Diplostephium goodspeedii
  42. Diplostephium grantii
  43. Diplostephium gynoxyoides
  44. Diplostephium haenkei
  45. Diplostephium hartwegii
  46. Diplostephium heterophyllum
  47. Diplostephium hippophae
  48. Diplostephium huertasii
  49. Diplostephium incanum
  50. Diplostephium inesianum
  51. Diplostephium jaramilloi
  52. Diplostephium jelskii
  53. Diplostephium jenesanum
  54. Diplostephium juajibioyi
  55. Diplostephium julianii
  56. Diplostephium juniperinum
  57. Diplostephium konotrichum
  58. Diplostephium lacunosum
  59. Diplostephium lanatum
  60. Diplostephium lechleri
  61. Diplostephium leiocladum
  62. Diplostephium leucactinum
  63. Diplostephium macrocephalum
  64. Diplostephium meyenii
  65. Diplostephium meyenii
  66. Diplostephium micradenium
  67. Diplostephium mutiscuanum
  68. Diplostephium nevadense
  69. Diplostephium oblanceolatum
  70. Diplostephium oblongifolium
  71. Diplostephium obtusum
  72. Diplostephium ocanense
  73. Diplostephium ochraceum
  74. Diplostephium oxapampanum
  75. Diplostephium pachyphyllum
  76. Diplostephium parvifolium
  77. Diplostephium pearcei
  78. Diplostephium perijaense
  79. Diplostephium peruvianum
  80. Diplostephium phylicoides
  81. Diplostephium pittieri
  82. Diplostephium pulchrum
  83. Diplostephium ramiglabrum
  84. Diplostephium rangelii
  85. Diplostephium revolutum
  86. Diplostephium rhododendroides
  87. Diplostephium rhomboidale
  88. Diplostephium ritterbushii
  89. Diplostephium romeroi
  90. Diplostephium rosmarinifolium
  91. Diplostephium rupestre
  92. Diplostephium sagasteguii
  93. Diplostephium sandiense
  94. Diplostephium santamartae
  95. Diplostephium saxatile
  96. Diplostephium schultzii
  97. Diplostephium serratifolium
  98. Diplostephium spinulosum
  99. Diplostephium stuebelii
  100. Diplostephium tachirense
  101. Diplostephium tacorense
  102. Diplostephium tamanum
  103. Diplostephium tenuifolium
  104. Diplostephium tergocanum
  105. Diplostephium tolimense
  106. Diplostephium vaccinioides
  107. Diplostephium venezuelense
  108. Diplostephium vermiculatum
  109. Diplostephium violaceum
  110. Diplostephium weberbaueri
  111. Diplostephium weddellii
  112. Diplostephium wurdackii
  113. Diplostephium yahuarcochense

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tropicos, Diplostephium Kunth
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  3. ↑ Kunth, Karl (Carl) Sigismund. 1818. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (folio ed.) 4: page 75, plate 335.

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