Otopappus

Otopappus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Heliantheae[1]
Genus: Otopappus
Benth.
Type species
Otopappus verbesinoides
Benth.
Synonyms[1]
  • Notoptera Urb.
  • Zexmenia sect. Otopappus (Benth.) O.Hoffm.

Otopappus is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower tribe within the daisy family, primarily Mesoamerican but with one species from Jamaica.[2][3][4]

Species[1][5]
  1. Otopappus acuminatus S.Watson - Jalisco
  2. Otopappus brevipes B.L.Rob. - from Chiapas to Nicaragua
  3. Otopappus calarcanus S.Díaz - Colombia
  4. Otopappus curviflorus (R.Br.) Hemsl. - from Veracruz to Nicaragua
  5. Otopappus epaleaceus Hemsl. - from Puebla to Guatemala
  6. Otopappus glabratus (J.M.Coult.) S.F.Blake - Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador
  7. Otopappus guatemalensis (Urb.) R.L.Hartm. & Stuessy - Guatemala, Belize, Yucatán
  8. Otopappus hirsutus (Sw.) R.L.Hartm. & Stuessy - Jamaica
  9. Otopappus imbricatus (Sch.Bip.) S.F.Blake - Puebla, Morelos, Michoacán, Guerrero
  10. Otopappus koelzii McVaugh - Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco
  11. Otopappus mexicanus (Rzed.) H.Rob. - Guerrero, Oaxaca
  12. Otopappus microcephalus S.F.Blake - Colima, Jalisco, Guerrero, Oaxaca
  13. Otopappus robustus Hemsl. - Veracruz
  14. Otopappus scaber S.F.Blake - Guatemala, Belize, Yucatán, Chiapas
  15. Otopappus syncephalus Donn.Sm. - Guatemala
  16. Otopappus tequilanus (A.Gray) B.L.Rob. - Sinaloa, Jalisco, Nayarit, Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca
  17. Otopappus verbesinoides Benth. - from Oaxaca to Nicaragua
formerly included[1]

Several species one included in Otopappus are now regarded as better suited to other genera: Lundellianthus Oblivia Verbesina

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. ↑ Bentham, George. 1873. Genera plantarum :ad exemplaria imprimis in Herberiis Kewensibus servata definita 2: 196, 380 in Latin
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Otopappus Benth.
  4. ↑ García-Mendoza, A. J. & J. A. Meave. 2011. Diversidad Florística de Oaxaca: de Musgos a Angispermas 1–351. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria
  5. ↑ Hartman, R.L. & T. F. Stuessy. 1983. Revision of Otopappus (Compositae, Heliantheae). Systematic Botany 8(2): 185–210