Isocoma veneta

Isocoma veneta (also known as false damiana) is a Mexican species of plants in the sunflower family. It is widespread across much of Mexico from Coahuila and Tamaulipas south as far as Oaxaca and Veracruz.[2][3][4]

Isocoma veneta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Isocoma
Species:
I. veneta
Binomial name
Isocoma veneta
(Kunth) Greene 1894
Synonyms[1]
  • Aplopappus discoideus DC.
  • Baccharis veneta Kunth 1818
  • Bigelowia veneta (Kunth) Gray
  • Bigelovia veneta (Kunth) Gray
  • Haplopappus discoideus DC.
  • Haplopappus venetus (Kunth) S. F. Blake
  • Aplopappus venetus (Kunth) S. F. Blake
  • Linosyris mexicana Schltdl.
  • Aster venetus Kuntze

Isocoma veneta is a subshrub up to 70 cm (28 inches) tall. It produces flower heads in clusters at the tips of branches, each head with 17-26 disc flowers but no ray flowers.[3]

References
  1. The Plant List, Isocoma veneta (Kunth) Greene
  2. "Isocoma veneta". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  3. Nesom, G.L. 1991. Taxonomy of Isocoma (Compositae: Astereae). Phytologia 70(2): 69–114 description of I. veneta on pages 110-111, distribution map on page 75
  4. García-Mendoza, A. J. & J. A. Meave. 2011. Diversidad Florística de Oaxaca: de Musgos a Angispermas 1–351. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria


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