Jessea

Jessea
Jessea cooperi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Jessea
H.Rob & Cuatrec (1994)
Type species
Jessea multivenia
(Benth. ex Benth.) H.Rob & Cuatrec

Jessea is a genus of Central American plants in the tribe Senecioneae within the sunflower family, closely related to Senecio.[1][2][3]

The genus is named in honor of US botanist Jesse More Greenman (1867-1951), formerly of the Missouri Botanical Garden.[4]


Species
  1. Jessea cooperi (Greenm.) H.Rob. & Cuatrec. - Panamá, Costa Rica
  2. Jessea gunillae B.Nord. - Costa Rica
  3. Jessea megaphylla (Greenm.) H.Rob. & Cuatrec. - Panamá, Costa Rica
  4. Jessea multivenia (Benth. ex Benth.) H.Rob. & Cuatrec. - Costa Rica

References

  1. ↑ Robinson, Harold; José Catrecasas (Spring 1994). "Jessea and Talamancalia, Two New Genera of the Senecioneae (Asteraceae) from Costa Rica and Panama". Novon (Missouri Botanical Garden Press) 4 (1): 48–52. doi:10.2307/3391700. JSTOR 3391700.
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Jessea H. Rob. & Cuatrec.
  3. ↑ Nordenstam, Rune Bertil. 1996. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 118(2): 148–150, f. 1.
  4. ↑ "Greenman, Jesse More (1867-1951)". JSTOR. Retrieved November 28, 2014.

External links

Media related to Jessea at Wikimedia Commons