Biology:Gochnatia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Gochnatia
Gochnatia oligocephala 2.jpg
Gochnatia oligocephala
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Gochnatioideae
Tribe: Gochnatieae
Genus: Gochnatia
Kunth[1]
Type species
Gochnatia vernonioides
Kunth

Gochnatia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae.[2] It is named for botanist Frédéric Karl Gochnat. The genus contains mainly shrubs and subshrubs, with a few trees and herbs. All of the species are native to the American tropics.[3] Two species native to the mountains of Southeast Asia and formerly included here are now separated as the genus Leucomeris in subfamily Wunderlichioideae.[4]

These plants produce flower heads containing whitish or yellow disc florets each with five deep lobes. The style has short, smooth branches, and the fruit is a lightly hairy cypsela with a pappus of bristles or scales.[4][5]

Species[6]


References

  1. "Genus: Gochnatia Kunth". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2011-01-06. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5044. 
  2. Tropicos, Gochnatia Kunth
  3. Hind, D. J. N. & C. Jeffrey. 2001. A checklist of the Compositae of Vol. IV of Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth's Nova Genera et Species Plantarum. Compositae Newsletter 37: 1–84.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Simpson, B. B.. "Gochnatia". Flora of North America. eFloras.org. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=113790. 
  5. González-Medrano, F., et al. (2004). A new species of Gochnatia (Asteraceae, Mutisieae) from the desert scrubland of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Novon 14(4), 434-36.
  6. Gochnatia. The Plant List.


Wikidata ☰ Q5575641 entry