Dicoria (plant)

Dicoria
Dicoria canescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Heliantheae
Genus: Dicoria
Torrey & A. Gray

Dicoria (twinbugs) is a genus of North American flowering plants in the sunflower tribe within the daisy family, native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.[1][2][3][4]

Species[5][6]
  1. Dicoria argentea Strother - northwestern Mexico (Sonora)
  2. Dicoria calliptera Rose & Standl. - northwestern Mexico (Sonora)[7][8]
  3. Dicoria canescens A.Gray - northwestern Mexico (Baja California, Sonora), United States (California Nevada Arizona Utah New Mexico Colorado)

References

  1. ↑ Emory, William Hemsley. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey :made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior, Botany 2(1): pages 86–87 genus description in Latin, species description in English
  2. ↑ Emory, William Hemsley. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey :made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior, Botany 2(1): plate 30 line drawing of Dicoria canescens
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Dicoria Torr. & A. Gray
  4. ↑ Flora of North America, Dicoria canescens
  5. ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist search for Dicoria
  6. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
  7. ↑ Rose, J.N. & Paul C. Standley. 1912. Report on a collection of plants from the Pinacate Region of Sonora. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 16: page18 description in English
  8. ↑ Rose, J.N. & Paul C. Standley. 1912. Report on a collection of plants from the Pinacate Region of Sonora. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 16: plate 18 line drawing of Dicoria calliptera

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