Werneria (plant)

Werneria is a genus of South American plants in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family.[1][2]

Werneria
Werneria nubigena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Werneria
Kunth
Type species
Werneria nubigena[1]
Kunth

Species include:[3]

  • Werneria apiculata Sch.Bip.
  • Werneria aretioides Wedd.
  • Werneria caespitosa Wedd.
  • Werneria glaberrima Phil.
  • Werneria heteroloba Wedd.
  • Werneria incisa Phil.
  • Werneria melanandra Wedd.
  • Werneria nubigena Kunth
  • Werneria orbignyana Wedd.
  • Werneria pectinata Lingelsh.
  • Werneria plantaginifolia Wedd. ex Klatt
  • Werneria pumila Kunth
  • Werneria pygmaea Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.
  • Werneria solivifolia Sch.Bip.
  • Werneria spathulata Wedd.
  • Werneria staticifolia Sch.Bip.
  • Werneria villosa A.Gray

Several species once included in Werneria are now considered as better suited to other genera: Cremanthodium, Euryops, Hypochaeris, Misbrookea, Senecio, and Xenophyllum.[3]

References

  1. Tropicos, Werneria Kunth
  2. Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1818. in Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre, & Kunth, Karl Sigismund, Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (folio ed.) 4: 148–149
  3. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist


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