Egletes

Not to be confused with Aegletes.

Egletes
Egletes viscosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Astereae
Subtribe: Egletinae
G.L.Nesom
Genus: Egletes
Cass.
Type species
Egletes domingensis
Synonyms
  • Eyselia Reichb.
  • Xerobius Cass.
  • Platystephium Gardner

Egletes (tropic daisy) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to South America, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies, with the range of one species barely crossing the US border into the extreme southern part of Texas.[1][2][3]

Species

References

  1. ^ Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1817. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1817: 153 in French
  2. ^ A. A. Anderberg; B. G. Baldwin; R. G. Bayer; et al. (2007). "Egletes Cass.". In Joachim W. Kadereit; Charles Jeffrey (eds.). Flowering plants: Eudicots; Asterales. The families and genera of vascular plants. Vol. 8. Springer. p. 306. ISBN 978-3-540-31050-1.
  3. ^ Tropicos, Egletes Cass.


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