Gochnatia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae.[3] 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.[4] Two species native to the mountains of Southeast Asia and formerly included here are now separated as the genus Leucomeris in subfamily Wunderlichioideae.[5]
| Gochnatia | |
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| Gochnatia foliolosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Gochnatioideae |
| Tribe: | Gochnatieae |
| Genus: | Gochnatia Kunth (1818)[1] |
| Type species | |
| Gochnatia vernonioides | |
| Species[2] | |
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17; see text | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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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.[5][6]
Species
edit17 species are accepted.[2]
- Gochnatia angustifolia G.Sancho, S.E.Freire & Katinas
- Gochnatia arequipensis Sandwith
- Gochnatia avicenniifolia (DC.) Cabrera
- Gochnatia boliviana S.F.Blake
- Gochnatia cardenasii S.F.Blake
- Gochnatia cratensis (Gardner) Cabrera
- Gochnatia curviflora O.Hoffm.
- Gochnatia foliolosa (D.Don) Hook. & Arn.
- Gochnatia glutinosa D.Don ex Hook. & Arn.
- Gochnatia lojaensis H.Rob. & V.A.Funk
- Gochnatia palosanto Cabrera
- Gochnatia patazina Cabrera
- Gochnatia peruviana H.Beltrán
- Gochnatia recticulifolia H.Rob. & V.A.Funk
- Gochnatia sagrana R.N.Jervis & Alain
- Gochnatia vargasii Cabrera
- Gochnatia vernonioides Kunth
Formerly placed here
edit- Moquiniastrum oligocephalum (Gardner) G.Sancho (as Gochnatia oligocephala (Gardner) Cabrera)
- Moquiniastrum polymorphum (as Gochnatia polymorpha)
- Nahuatlea arborescens (as Gochnatia arborescens)
- Nahuatlea hypoleuca (as Gochnatia hypoleuca)
- Vickia rotundifolia (Less.) Roque & G.Sancho (as Gochnatia rotundifolia Less.)
References
edit- ^ "Genus: Gochnatia Kunth". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2011-01-06. Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
- ^ a b c Gochnatia Kunth. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ Tropicos, Gochnatia Kunth
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Simpson, B. B. "Gochnatia". Flora of North America. eFloras.org. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
- ^ 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.
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