Acanthostyles

Acanthostyles
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Supertribe: Helianthodae
Tribe: Eupatorieae
Genus: Acanthostyles
R.M. King & H. Rob.

Acanthostyles is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae described as a genus in 1971.[1][2][3]

The entire genus is endemic to South America.[1]

Species[4]
  1. Acanthostyles buniifolius (Hook. ex Hook. & Arn.) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Rio Grande do Sul, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay
  2. Acanthostyles saucechicoensis (Hieron.) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Argentina

References

  1. 1 2 King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1971. Phytologia 22: 111-112
  2. D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg.
  3. Tropicos, Acanthostyles R.M. King & H. Rob.
  4. The Plant List search for Acanthostyles
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