Lourteigia

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Lourteigia
Lourteigia ballotaefolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Eupatorieae
Genus: Lourteigia
R.M.King & H.Rob.
Type species
Eupatorium stoechadifolium[1]

Lourteigia is a genus of South American flowering plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae.[2][1][3][4]

The genus name of Lourteigia is in honour of Alicia Lourteig (1913–2003), an Argentine and French botanist, who was a world specialist in Oxalidaceae plants.[5] It was first described and published in Phytologia Vol.21 on page 28 in 1971.[6]

Species[7]

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