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Trichocline

Trichocline is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Mutisieae within the family Asteraceae. It includes twenty-three species native South America, which range from Bolivia and eastern Brazil to southern Argentina. The Australian species Trichocline spathulata was formerly included; it is now placed in the monotypic genus Amblysperma as A. spathulata.

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Trichocline
Trichocline sinuata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Mutisioideae
Tribe: Mutisieae
Genus: Trichocline
Cass.
Type species
Trichocline skirrophorum
Sonder & F.Muell.
Synonyms12
  • Bichenia D.Don
  • Gerbera section Trichocline (Cass.) Baillon

Trichocline is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Mutisieae within the family Asteraceae. It includes twenty-three species native South America, which range from Bolivia and eastern Brazil to southern Argentina.1345 The Australian species Trichocline spathulata was formerly included; it is now placed in the monotypic genus Amblysperma as A. spathulata.6

Its closest relatives are Chaptalia, Gerbera, Leibnitzia, Perdicium, and Oreoseris. Together they form the Gerbera complex in the tribe Mutisieae.4

Species

23 species are accepted.1

Formerly included

see Actinoseris, Amblysperma, Chaptalia, Criscia Richterago, and Unxia21

  • Trichocline angustifolia - Unxia suffruticosa
  • Trichocline arenaria - Richterago arenaria
  • Trichocline cordifolia - Chaptalia cordifolia
  • Trichocline heterophylla - Criscia stricta
  • Trichocline oblonga - Chaptalia oblonga
  • Trichocline ovalis - Chaptalia oblonga
  • Trichocline radiata - Actinoseris radiata
  • Trichocline spathulata - Amblysperma spathulata
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References

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