Viguiera

Viguiera
Viguiera stenoloba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Heliantheae
Genus: Viguiera
Kunth[1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms

Haplocalymma S.F.Blake[1]

Viguiera is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. The name honours French physician L. G. Alexandre Viguier (1790–1867).[2] It contains around 150 species, which are commonly known as goldeneyes and are native to the New World.[3] These are herbs to bushy shrubs that bear yellow or orange daisy-like flowers.

Selected species

Formerly placed here

References

  1. 1 2 "Genus: Viguiera Kunth". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1996-09-17. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
  2. Schilling, Edward E. "301. Viguiera Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp. 4(fol.): 176. 1818; 4(qto.): 224, plate 379. 1820.". Flora of North America. eFloras.org. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
  3. Blake, S. F. (1918). "A revision of the genus Viguiera". Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 54.
  4. "Viguiera". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
  5. 1 2 "Species Records of Viguiera". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
  6. Schilling, E. E.; J. L. Panero (2002). "A revised classification of subtribe Helianthinae (Asteraceae: Heliantheae). I. Basal lineages.". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 140: 65–76. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.00079.x.

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