Robinsonia (plant)

Robinsonia is a genus of plants in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family.[2][3]

Species[1]

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Tribe:
Senecioneae[1]
Genus:
Robinsonia

Type species
Robinsonia gayana
Synonyms[1]

All the species are endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of the Republic of Chile.[1] The genus is named for the fictional character Robinson Crusoe, purportedly shipwrecked in this chain of islands.[4]

  • Robinsonia berteroi (DC.) R.W.Sanders, Stuessy & Martic.
  • Robinsonia evenia Phil.
  • Robinsonia gayana Decne.
  • Robinsonia gracilis Decne.
  • Robinsonia macrocephala Decne.
  • Robinsonia masafuerae Skottsb.
  • Robinsonia thurifera Decne.

References
  1. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1833. Archives de Botanique 2: 333
  3. Tropicos, Robinsonia DC.
  4. Daniel Defoe. 1719. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. London: W. Taylor


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