Gochnatia
Genus of flowering plants
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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  | |
| 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
17 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
- 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)
- Tehuasca magna (M.C.Johnst.) Panero (as Gochnatia magna M.C.Johnst.)
- Vickia rotundifolia (Less.) Roque & G.Sancho (as Gochnatia rotundifolia Less.)
