Florestina

Florestina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Bahieae[1]
Genus: Florestina
Cass.
Type species
Florestina pedata
(Cav.) Cass.

Florestina is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family,[2][3][4] native to Texas, Mexico, and Central America.[5]

Florestina is distinguished from Palafoxia by its 3-5 lobed leaves, whitish corollas, and cypselae (achenes) which are only sparsely pubescent and with the trichomes curled (rather than straight). It is considered to be closely related to Palafoxia; some authors have suggested that the two genera should be merged.[6]

Species[1][7]
  1. Florestina latifolia (DC.) Rydb. - Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
  2. Florestina liebmannii Sch.Bip. ex Greenm. - Veracruz, Guerrero, Oaxaca
  3. Florestina lobata B.L.Turner - Guerrero, México State
  4. Florestina pedata (Cav.) Cass. - Mexico, Guatemala
  5. Florestina platyphylla (B.L.Rob. & Greenm.) B.L.Rob. & Greenm. - Chiapas, Oaxaca
  6. Florestina purpurea (Brandegee) Rydb. - Oaxaca, Puebla
  7. Florestina simplicifolia B.L.Turner - Oaxaca
  8. Florestina tripteris DC. - Texas,[8] Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Puebla, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Michoacán, México State

References

  1. 1 2 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist search for Florestina
  2. ↑ Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1817. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1817: 11 in French
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Florestina Cass.
  4. ↑ Florestina in Global Compositae
  5. ↑ Flora of North America, Vol. 21 Page 392 Florestina Cassini, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris. 1817: 11. 1817.
  6. ↑ Tree of Life
  7. ↑ CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, México D.F..
  8. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map


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