Tessaria is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae.[4][2]

Tessaria
Tessaria absinthioides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Inuleae
Genus: Tessaria
Ruiz & Pav
Type species
Tessaria integrifolia[1][2]
Ruiz & Pav.
Synonyms[3]
  • Phalacromesus Cass.
  • Polypappus Nutt.
  • Monophalacrus Cass.
  • Gynheteria Willd.
Species[3]
formerly included[3]

several species now considered members of Pluchea or Pterocaulon

References edit

  1. ^ lectotype designated by Cabrera, Fl. Patagonica 7: 99 (1971)
  2. ^ a b Tropicos, Tessaria Ruiz & Pav.
  3. ^ a b c Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2015-01-17 at archive.today
  4. ^ Ruiz López, Hipólito & Pavón, José Antonio. 1794. Florae Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus 112, t. 24, center