Tessaria

Tessaria
Tessaria absinthioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Inuleae[1]
Genus: Tessaria
Ruiz & Pav
Type species
Tessaria integrifolia[2][3]
Ruiz & Pav.
Synonyms[1]
  • Phalacromesus Cass.
  • Polypappus Nutt.
  • Monophalacrus Cass.
  • Gynheteria Willd.

Tessaria is a genus of South American plants in the stinkwort tribe within the daisy family.[4][3]

Species[1]
  1. Tessaria absinthioides (Hook. & Arn.) DC. - Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
  2. Tessaria fastigiata (Griseb.) Cabrera - Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina
  3. Tessaria integrifolia Ruiz & Pav. - Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
formerly included[1]

several species now considered members of Pluchea or Pterocaulon

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. ↑ lectotype designated by Cabrera, Fl. Patagonica 7: 99 (1971)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tropicos, Tessaria Ruiz & Pav.
  4. ↑ Ruiz López, Hipólito & Pavón, José Antonio. 1794. Florae Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus 112, t. 24, center