Chrysoma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[3][4][5][1]

Chrysoma
Chrysoma pauciflosculos in Grayton Beach State Park, Florida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Astereae
Subtribe: Solidagininae
Genus: Chrysoma
Nutt.
Species:
C. pauciflosculosa
Binomial name
Chrysoma pauciflosculosa
(Michx.) Greene
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Solidago pauciflosculosa Michx.
  • Aster pauciflosculosus (Michx.) Kuntze
  • Aplactis paniculata Raf.
  • Chrysoma solidaginoides Nutt.

Species

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More than 20 species names have been created in the genus, most of them now transferred to other genera (Ericameria, Solidago, Gundlachia). Only one remains, Chrysoma pauciflosculosa, native to the southeastern United States (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina).[6] Chrysoma pauciflosculosa is a branching, evergreen shrub up to 100 cm (39 in) tall, with resin but no hairs. Flower heads are yellow, in dense, flat-topped arrays of many small heads, sometimes with no ray florets but sometimes with 2 or 3 ray florets, plus 2-5 disc florets.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b Tropicos, Chrysoma Nutt.
  2. ^ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2014-11-14 at archive.today
  3. ^ Nuttall, Thomas. 1834. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7(1): 67–68 short description in Latin, longer description and commentary in English
  4. ^ Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. "Details for: Astereae". Euro+Med PlantBase. Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  5. ^ UniProt. "Tribe Astereae". Retrieved 2009-07-18.
  6. ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
  7. ^ Flora of North America, Chrysoma Nuttall
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