Polymnia

This article is about the plant. For the Greek muse, see Polyhymnia. For the butterfly, see Mechanitis polymnia.
Polymnia
Pale-flowered leafcup
(Polymnia canadensis)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Polymnieae[2]
Genus: Polymnia
L.
Type species
Polymnia canadensis
L.
Synonyms[2]
  • Alymnia Neck.
  • Polymniastrum Lam.

Polymnia is a genus of American plants in the sunflower family.[3][4][5] It is the only genus in the tribe Polymnieae.[6] Several species are known by the common name leafcup[7]

Species[2][8][9]
  1. Polymnia aspera (Mart.) Mart. ex DC. - Mexico
  2. Polymnia canadensis L. - Ontario, much of eastern + central USA
  3. Polymnia cocuyensis Cuatrec. - Boyacá in Colombia
  4. Polymnia cossatotensis Pittman & V.M.Bates - Arkansas
  5. Polymnia johnbeckii D.Estes - Tennessee
  6. Polymnia laevigata Beadle - MO KY TN AL GA FL
  7. Polymnia quichensis J.M.Coult. - Costa Rica, Guatemala
  8. Polymnia sonchifolia Poepp. - Bolivia
formerly included[2]

numerous species now in other genera: Axiniphyllum Berlandiera Didelta Guizotia Melampodium Montanoa Rumfordia Smallanthus Sphagneticola Unxia

References

  1. 1913 illustration from Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 3: 458. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. -
  2. 1 2 3 4 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  3. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 926 in Latin
  4. Tropicos, Polymnia L.
  5. Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 39 Polymnia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 926. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 396. 1754.
  6. Asteroideae - Taxonomy
  7. "Polymnia". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  8. The Plant List/
  9. Biota of North America program 2013 county distributiion maps

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