Robinsonia (plant)

wireweed
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Senecioneae[1]
Genus: Robinsonia
DC.
Type species
Robinsonia gayana
Decne.
Synonyms[1]
  • Rhetinodendron Meisn.
  • Balbisia DC.
  • Symphyochaeta (DC.) Skottsb.

Robinsonia is a genus of plants in the groundseltribe within the sunflower family.[2][3]

Species[1]

All the species are endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of the Republic of Chile.[1] The genus is named for the fictional character Robinson Crusoe, purportedly shipwrecked in this chain of islands.[4]

  1. Robinsonia berteroi (DC.) R.W.Sanders, Stuessy & Martic.
  2. Robinsonia evenia Phil.
  3. Robinsonia gayana Decne.
  4. Robinsonia gracilis Decne.
  5. Robinsonia macrocephala Decne.
  6. Robinsonia masafuerae Skottsb.
  7. Robinsonia thurifera Decne.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. ↑ Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1833. Archives de Botanique 2: 333
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Robinsonia DC.
  4. ↑ Daniel Defoe. 1719. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. London: W. Taylor