Macvaughiella

Macvaughiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Supertribe: Helianthodae
Tribe: Eupatorieae[1]
Genus: Macvaughiella
R.M. King & H. Rob.
Type species
Schaetzellia mexicana
Sch.Bip.
Synonyms[1]
  • Schaetzellia Sch.Bip. 1850, illegitimate homonym not Klotzsch 1849
  • Dichaeta Sch.Bip 1850, illegitimate homonym not Nutt. 1841

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Macvaughiella is a genus of Mesoamerican flowering plants in the bonset tribe within the sunflower family.[2][3][4][5]

The genus is named in honor of the American botanist Rogers McVaugh (1909-2009) formerly of the University of Michigan.[3][6]

Species[1][7]
  1. Macvaughiella chiapensis R.M.King & H.Rob. - El Salvador, Chiapas
  2. Macvaughiella mexicana (Sch.Bip.) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Veracruz , El Salvador, Oaxaca, Honduras, Chiapas

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg.
  3. 3.0 3.1 King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1968. Sida 3(4): 282
  4. Tropicos, Macvaughiella R.M. King & H. Rob
  5. Robinson, H. 1991. A review of the genus Macvaughiella (Eupatorieae: Asteraceae) with two new species. Systematic Botany 16(4): 639–643
  6. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. CRC Press. p. 1587. Retrieved 2013-08-14.
  7. The Plant List search for Macvaughiella