Steviopsis
Genus of plants
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Steviopsis is a genus of Mexican plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae.[1][2][3]
| Steviopsis | |
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| Steviopsis dryophila | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
| Tribe: | Eupatorieae |
| Genus: | Steviopsis R.M.King & H.Rob. |
| Type species | |
| Eupatorium adenospermum[1] | |
Description
Members of Steviopsis are perennial herbs that have heads composed entirely of disk flowers, a pappus of capillary bristles, narrow corollas with spreading lobes, and glands on the cypselae (achenes). The base chromosome number is x=10, which distinguishes it in part from the morphologically similar Brickellia. The genus is endemic to Mexico.
Taxonomy
The genus was originally described by King and Robinson[1] as part of the splitting of Eupatorium into monophyletic units. The distinctiveness and circumscription of the genus were recently assessed using molecular phylogenetic approaches [4][5]
- Steviopsis amblyolepis (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Guerrero, Morelos, Michoacán
- Steviopsis arsenei R.M.King & H.Rob. - Michoacán
- Steviopsis dryophila (B.L.Rob.) B.L.Turner - Jalisco, Nayarit, Zacatecas, Sinaloa
- Steviopsis nesomii B.L.Turner - Nuevo León
- Steviopsis rapunculoides (DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Jalisco, Guanajuato, Nayarit, Morelos, Michoacán
- Steviopsis vigintiseta (DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Oaxaca, Puebla, Morelos, México State
- formerly included[6]
see Asanthus Brickelliastrum Dyscritogyne
- Steviopsis adenosperma - Dyscritogyne adenosperma
- Steviopsis dryophila - Dyscritogyne dryophila
- Steviopsis fendleri - Brickelliastrum fendleri
- Steviopsis squamulosa - Asanthus squamulosus
- Steviopsis thyrsiflora - Asanthus thyrsiflorus
- Steviopsis thyrsiflora var. solidaginifolia - Asanthus solidaginifolius
