Bahia (plant)

Bahia
Bahia ambrosioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Bahieae
Genus:	Bahia Lag. 1816 not Nutt. 1841[1]
Synonyms
Stylesia Nutt. Bahia Nutt. 1841 not Lag. 1816 Picradeniopsis Rydb. Antheropeas Rydb. Virletia Sch.Bip. ex Benth. & Hook.f.

Bahia is a small genus of perennial flowering plants in the sunflower family. The common name is also bahia. It is named in honor of the Spanish botanist Juan Francisco Bahí (1775–1841).^[2]

The genus has a disjunct distribution in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile, and is found in dry areas.^[3]

Species^[4]

1. Bahia absinthifolia – Hairyseed Bahia - USA (Arizona Utah New Mexico Texas); Mexico (Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Durango, Aguascalientes)
2. Bahia ambrosioides - Chile incl. Juan Fernández Islands
3. Bahia aristata - Mexico
4. Bahia autumnalis - Nuevo León
5. Bahia bigelovii – Bigelow's Bahia - western Texas, Coahuila
6. Bahia biternata – Slim-lobe Bahia - Arizona, New Mexico, Chihuahua
7. Bahia depauperata - Guatemala
8. Bahia glandulosa - Chihuahua, Durango
9. Bahia pedata – Blunt-scale Bahia - Texas, New Mexico, Durango
10. Bahia pringlei - Coahuila, Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz
11. Bahia schaffneri - Nuevo León, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas
12. Bahia xylopoda - Hidalgo, Jalisco, Puebla, San Luis Potosí

References

1. Triopicos, search for Bahia
2. Genaust, Helmut (1976). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen ISBN 3-7643-0755-2
3. Ellison, W.L. 1964. A systematic study of the genus Bahia (Compositae). Rhodora 66: 67-86, 178-311.
4. The Plant List search for Bahia