Erato (plant)

Erato
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Liabeae
Genus: Erato
DC.
Synonyms[1]

Munnozia subgen. Erato (DC.) H. Rob. & Brettell

Erato is a genus of flowering plants belonging to tribe Liabeae of the sunflower family. It is found from Costa Rica to Bolivia, with its main centre of diversity in Ecuador.[2][3][1]

Species[4][5]
  1. Erato costaricensis E. Moran & V.A.Funk - Costa Rica
  2. Erato polymnioides DC. - Panamá, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
  3. Erato sodiroi (Hieron.) H.Rob. - Ecuador
  4. Erato stenolepis (S.F.Blake) H.Rob. - Peru
  5. Erato vulcanica (Klatt) H.Rob. - Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tropicos, Erato DC.
  2. ↑ Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1836. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 317–318 in Latin
  3. ↑ E. Moran & V.A. Funk, A Revision of Erato (Compositae: Liabeae), Systematic Botany 31(3): 597-609 (2006)
  4. ↑ The Plant List search for Erato
  5. ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist