Gochnatia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae.[3] It is named for botanist Frédéric Karl Gochnat. The genus contains mainly shrubs and subshrubs, with a few trees and herbs. All of the species are native to the American tropics.[4] Two species native to the mountains of Southeast Asia and formerly included here are now separated as the genus Leucomeris in subfamily Wunderlichioideae.[5]

Gochnatia
Gochnatia foliolosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Gochnatioideae
Tribe: Gochnatieae
Genus: Gochnatia
Kunth (1818)[1]
Type species
Gochnatia vernonioides
Species[2]

17; see text

Synonyms[2]
  • Hedraiophyllum Less. ex Steud. (1840), pro syn.
  • Pentaphorus D.Don (1830)

These plants produce flower heads containing whitish or yellow disc florets each with five deep lobes. The style has short, smooth branches, and the fruit is a lightly hairy cypsela with a pappus of bristles or scales.[5][6]

Species

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17 species are accepted.[2]

Formerly placed here

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References

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  1. ^ "Genus: Gochnatia Kunth". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2011-01-06. Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
  2. ^ a b c Gochnatia Kunth. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  3. ^ Tropicos, Gochnatia Kunth
  4. ^ Hind, D. J. N. & C. Jeffrey. 2001. A checklist of the Compositae of Vol. IV of Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth's Nova Genera et Species Plantarum. Compositae Newsletter 37: 1–84.
  5. ^ a b Simpson, B. B. "Gochnatia". Flora of North America. eFloras.org. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
  6. ^ González-Medrano, F., et al. (2004). A new species of Gochnatia (Asteraceae, Mutisieae) from the desert scrubland of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Novon 14(4), 434-36.