Lepidophyllum

Lepidophyllum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae[1]
Genus: Lepidophyllum
Cass. 1816 not Trinajstić 1990 (syn of Phyllolepidum in Brassicaceae)[2]
Binomial name
Lepidophyllum cupressiforme
(Lam.) Cass.
Synonyms[1]
  • Brachyridium Meisn.
  • Conyza cupressifomis Lam.
  • Athanasia cupressiformis Comm. ex DC.
  • Brachyridium cupressiforme (Cass.) Meisn.
  • Baccharis cupressiformis (Lam.) Pers.
  • Gutierrezia cupressiformis (Lam.) Sch.Bip.

Lepidophyllum is a genus of South American flowering plants in the daisy family.[3][4]

Species

There is only one accepted species, Lepidophyllum cupressiforme, native to southern Argentina (Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego Provinces) and southern Chile (Magallanes Region).[1][5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. ↑ Tropicos, search for Lepidophyllum
  3. ↑ Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1816. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1816: 199 in French
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Lepidophyllum Cass.
  5. ↑ The Plant List, Lepidophyllum cupressiforme (Lam.) Cass.