Porophyllum

poreleaf
Porophyllum gracile
in southern Nevada
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Tageteae[1]
Genus: Porophyllum
Guett. 1754 not Adans. 1763[1][2]
Synonyms[1]

Porophyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the marigold tribe within the daisy family known commonly as the poreleaf genus.[3][4]

Poreleaf plants are subshrubs native to the Americas. Their leaves often have large glands that produce aromatic oils and give the plants a strong scent. Many species are used in cooking.[5][6]

Species[1][7][8]
  1. Porophyllum amplexicaule - Coahuila, Nuevo León
  2. Porophyllum angustissimum - Brazil, Argentina
  3. Porophyllum bahiense - Bahia
  4. Porophyllum cabrerae - Salta in Argentina
  5. Porophyllum cacalioides - Philippines
  6. Porophyllum calcicola - Guerrero, Morelos
  7. Porophyllum coloratum - Mexico
  8. Porophyllum crassifolium - Baja California Sur
  9. Porophyllum filiforme - Baja California Sur, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí
  10. Porophyllum gracile - odora, slender poreleaf - USA (CA NV UT AZ NM TX), Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua
  11. Porophyllum greggii - USA (TX), Coahuila, Chihuahua
  12. Porophyllum hasslerianum - Paraguay
  13. Porophyllum lanceolatum - Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
  14. Porophyllum leiocarpum - yerba de peo - Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Brazil
  15. Porophyllum linaria - pipicha - Mexico
  16. Porophyllum lindenii - Mexico
  17. Porophyllum linifolium - Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
  18. Porophyllum maritimum - Baja California Sur
  19. Porophyllum obscurum - Argentina
  20. Porophyllum oppositifolium - Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
  21. Porophyllum pausodynum - Sonora
  22. Porophyllum pringlei - Jalisco, México State, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Chiapas, Sinaloa, Morelos, Michoacán
  23. Porophyllum punctatum - southern Mexico, Central America
  24. Porophyllum pygmaeum - dwarf poreleaf - USA (NV)
  25. Porophyllum ruderale - pápalo, Bolivian coriander, quirquiña, yerba porosa - USA (CA AZ NM TX), Mesoamerica, West Indies, South America as far south as Paraguay
  26. Porophyllum scoparium - Transpecos poreleaf, hierba del venado, jarilla - USA (TX NM), Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Durango, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  27. Porophyllum tridentatum - Baja California Sur
  28. Porophyllum viridiflorum - México State, Morelos, Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Jalisco
  29. Porophyllum warnockii - México State
  30. Porophyllum zimapanum - Hidalgo
formerly included[1]

see Gynura

Gallery

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. Tropicos, search for Porophyllum
  3. Guettard, Jean Étienne. 1754. Histoire de l'académie royale des sciences. Avec les mémoires de mathématique & de physique 1750: 377–378
  4. Tropicos, Porophyllum Guett.
  5. Johnson, R. R. 1969. Monograph of the plant genus Porophyllum (Compositae: Helenieae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 48: 225–267.
  6. Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 233 Porophyllum Guettard
  7. Biota of North America Program 2013 county range maps
  8. Turner, B. L. 1996. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 6. Tageteae and Athemideae. Phytologia Memoirs 10: i–ii, 1–22, 43–93.

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