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Hymenostephium

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Hymenostephium
Hymenostephium tenue
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subtribe: Helianthinae
Genus: Hymenostephium
Benth. in Benth. & Hook.f.
Type species
Hymenostephium mexicanum
Synonyms[2]
  • Garcilassa Poepp. & Endl.in E.F.Poeppig & S.L.Endlicher, Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 3: 45 (1843)
  • Haplocalymma S.F.Blake in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 51: 517 (1916)
  • Microcephalum Sch.Bip. ex Klatt in Leopoldina 23: 90 (1887), not validly publ.
  • Viguiera sect. Diplostichis S.F.Blake[3]

Hymenostephium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It includes herbs and slender shrubs that occur from Mexico through to Venezuela and north-western Argentina.

Description

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Hymenostephium is characterized by the relatively slender habit of the plants, 1–2 seriate involucres, and relatively small heads of flowers. There is variation in the pappus which, in part, has led to some members having been placed formerly in the now empty genus Haplocalymma, or in separate genera now considered as synonymous with Hymenostephium.

Molecular phylogenetic data place the genus as sister to Sclerocarpus and in a relatively basal position in the subtribe Helianthinae,[4][5] the group that includes the common sunflower (Helianthus annuus).[6]

Species

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Includes 22 accepted species;[2]

Distribution

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They are native to the countries of north western Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru and Venezuela.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Bentham, George in Bentham, George & Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1873. Genera plantarum :ad exemplaria imprimis in Herberiis Kewensibus servata definita 2: 382 in Latin
  2. ^ a b c "Hymenostephium Benth. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  3. ^ Tropicos, Hymenostephium Benth.
  4. ^ Schilling, E.E.; Panero, J.L. (2002). "A revised classification of subtribe Helianthinae (Asteraceae: Heliantheae) I. Basal lineages". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 140: 65–76. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.00079.x.
  5. ^ Schilling, Edward E.; Panero, Jose L. (November 2011). "A revised classification of subtribe Helianthinae (Asteraceae: Heliantheae) II. Derived lineages". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (3): 311–331. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01172.x.
  6. ^ Turner, Billie T. 2013. Recension of the Mexican species of Hymenostephium (Asteraceae:Helianthese). Phytologia 95:1-9