Gonzalezia (plant)
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| Gonzalezia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Gonzalezia E.E.Schill. & Panero |
Gonzalezia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.[1]
Its native range is northern and western Mexico.[1]
Botanists Schilling & Panero used molecular sequences of nuclear ITS, ETS, and cpDNA, to conclude that the genus Viguiera Kunth, did not constitute a monophyletic group. Among their conclusions they proposed to reclassify the genus, dividing its species into at least eleven genera: Aldama La Llave, Bahiopsis Kellogg, Calanticaria (B.L. Rob. & Greenm.) E.E. Schill. & Panero, Davilanthus E.E. Schill. & Panero, Dendroviguiera E.E. Schill. & Panero, Gonzalezia E.E. Schill. & Panero, Heiseria E.E. Schill. & Panero, Heliomeris Nutt., Hymenostephium Benth., Sidneya E.E. Schill. & Panero and Viguiera Kunth.[2][3]
The genus name of Gonzalezia is in honour of María del Socorro González Elizondo (b. 1953), a Mexican plant taxonomist with a focus on Cyperaceae.[4] It was first described and published by botanists Edward E. Schilling and José Luis Panero in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. Vol.167 on page 326 in 2011.[1]
Known species, according to Kew;[1]
- Gonzalezia decurrens (A.Gray) E.E.Schill. & Panero
- Gonzalezia hypargyrea (Greenm.) E.E.Schill. & Panero
- Gonzalezia rosei (Greenm.) E.E.Schill. & Panero