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Lepidaploa

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Lepidaploa
Lepidaploa cotoneaster
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Vernonieae
Genus: Lepidaploa
(Cass.) Cass.
Type species
Vernonia albicaulis[1][2]
Vahl ex Pers.
Synonyms[3]
  • Vernonia subg. Lepidaploa Cass.
  • Flustula Raf.
  • Vernonia sect. Lepidaploa (Cass.) DC.

Lepidaploa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to tropical parts of the Western Hemisphere.[4][5][6]

It is a relatively large genus, formerly subsumed in the genus Vernonia.[7]

Species[3]

References

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  1. ^ lectotype designated by Robinson, Bohlmann & King, Phytologia 46(7): 428 (1980)
  2. ^ Tropicos, Vernonia subgen. Lepidaploa Cass.
  3. ^ a b Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2014-12-13 at archive.today
  4. ^ Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1817. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1817: 66-67 in French
  5. ^ Robinson, H. 1995. New combinations and new species in American Vernonieae. Phytologia 78:384-399
  6. ^ Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1990. Studies in the Lepidaploa complex, (Vernonieae:Asteraceae), VII: The genus Lepidaploa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(2): 464-498.
  7. ^ Bruce A. Bohm & Tod F. Stuessy (2001). "Flavonoids of Vernonieae and Liabeae". Flavonoids of the Sunflower Family (Asteraceae). Springer. pp. 360–368. ISBN 978-3-211-83479-4.