Amphiachyris

Broomweed
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae
Genus: Amphiachyris
(DC.) Nutt.
Synonyms[1]

Brachyris sect. Amphiachyris DC.

Amphiachyris is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae described as a species in 1840.[2][1][3]

Amphiachyris is endemic to the United States.[4]

Species[5][6]
  1. Amphiachyris amoena (Shinners) Solbrig - Texas
  2. Amphiachyris dracunculoides (DC.) Nutt. - southern Great Plains, with a few scattered populations farther east

References

  1. 1 2 Tropicos, Amphiachyris (DC.) Nutt.
  2. ↑ Nuttall, Thomas. 1840. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series 7: 313 in English
  3. ↑ Lane, M. A. 1979. Taxonomy of the genus Amphiachyris (Asteraceae: Astereae). Systematic Botany 4(2): 178–188.
  4. ↑ Flora of North America, Amphiachyris (de Candolle) Nuttall
  5. ↑ The Plant List, search for Amphiachyris
  6. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
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