Pleurocoronis

Pleurocoronis
Pleurocoronis pluriseta
Titus Canyon, Death Valley
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Eupatorieae[1]
Genus: Pleurocoronis
R.M. King & H. Robinson
Type species
Hofmeisteria pluriseta
A.Gray

Pleurocoronis is a genus of North American shrubs or subshrubs native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It is in the boneset tribe within the sunflower family. All known members had been considered members of the related genus Hofmeisteria before being moved to Pleurocoronis.[2][3]

Species[1][4][5]
  1. Pleurocoronis gentryi (Wiggins) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Baja California, Baja California Sur
  2. Pleurocoronis laphamioides (Rose) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora
  3. Pleurocoronis pluriseta (A.Gray) R.M.King & H.Rob. - California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora

References

  1. 1 2 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. ↑ King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1966. Generic limitations in the Hofmeisteria complex (Compositae- Eupatoriae). Phytologia 12:465-476
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Pleurocoronis R.M. King & H. Rob.
  4. ↑ Turner, B. L. 1997. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 1 -- Eupatorieae. Phytologia Memoirs 11: i–iv, 1–272.
  5. ↑ Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map, Pleurocoronis pluriseta
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