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(Redirected from Sipolisia) Genus of flowering plants

Heterocoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Cichorioideae
Tribe: Vernonieae
Genus: Heterocoma
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
Type species
Heterocoma albida
(DC. ex Pers.) DC.
Synonyms
  • Alcantara Glaz. ex G.M.Barroso
  • Bishopalea H.Rob.
  • Sipolisia Glaz. ex Oliv.
  • Xerxes J.R.Grant

Heterocoma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

Heterocoma was believed for many years to contain only one species, until 2013, when two new species were described and the three genera Bishopalea, Sipolisia, and Xerxes were merged into Heterocoma. All are endemic to the Brazilian Highlands.

Species:

formerly included

Heterocoma bifrons (DC. ex Pers.) DC. – Chronopappus bifrons (DC. ex Pers.) DC.

References

  1. ^ Loeuille, B., et al. (2013). Two new species of Heterocoma (Asteraceae: Vernonieae) and a broadened concept of the genus. Systematic Botany 38(1), 242-52.
  2. Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1810. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 16: 190-192 descriptions in Latin, commentary in French
  3. Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1810. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 16: plate 7 drawing of Heterocoma albida
  4. Tropicos, Heterocoma DC.
  5. ^ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
Taxon identifiers
Heterocoma


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