Bahia (genus)

Bahia
Bahia ambrosioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Bahieae
Genus: Bahia
Lag. 1816 not Nutt. 1841[1]
Synonyms
  • Stylesia Nutt.
  • Bahia Nutt. 1841 not Lag. 1816
  • Picradeniopsis Rydb.
  • Antheropeas Rydb.
  • Virletia Sch.Bip. ex Benth. & Hook.f.

Bahia is a small genus of perennial flowering plants in the sunflower family. The common name is also bahia. It is named in honor of the Spanish botanist Juan Francisco Bahí (1775–1841).[2]

The genus has a disjunct distribution in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile, and is found in dry areas.[3]

Species[4]
  1. Bahia absinthifolia – Hairyseed Bahia - USA (Arizona Utah New Mexico Texas); Mexico (Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Durango, Aguascalientes)
  2. Bahia ambrosioides - Chile incl. Juan Fernández Islands
  3. Bahia aristata - Mexico
  4. Bahia autumnalis - Nuevo León
  5. Bahia bigelovii – Bigelow's Bahia - western Texas, Coahuila
  6. Bahia biternata – Slim-lobe Bahia - Arizona, New Mexico, Chihuahua
  7. Bahia depauperata - Guatemala
  8. Bahia glandulosa - Chihuahua, Durango
  9. Bahia pedata – Blunt-scale Bahia - Texas, New Mexico, Durango
  10. Bahia pringlei - Coahuila, Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz
  11. Bahia schaffneri - Nuevo León, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas
  12. Bahia xylopoda - Hidalgo, Jalisco, Puebla, San Luis Potosí

References

  1. Triopicos, search for Bahia
  2. Genaust, Helmut (1976). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen ISBN 3-7643-0755-2
  3. Ellison, W.L. 1964. A systematic study of the genus Bahia (Compositae). Rhodora 66: 67-86, 178-311.
  4. The Plant List search for Bahia
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