Piptocoma

velvetshrub
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Vernonieae[1]
Genus: Piptocoma
Cass.
Type species
Piptocoma rufescens
Cass.
Synonyms[1]
  • Adenocyclus Less.
  • Pollalesta Kunth

Piptocoma, common name velvetshrub,[2] is a genus of Caribbean and Latin American plants in the evil tribe[3] within the daisy family.[4][5]

Species[1][6]
  1. Piptocoma acevedroi Pruski - Puerto Rico
  2. Piptocoma antillana Urb. - Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands
  3. Piptocoma areolata (Wurdack) Pruski - eastern Venezuela
  4. Piptocoma barinensis (Aristeg.) Pruski - Venezuela
  5. Piptocoma discolor (Kunth) Pruski - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
  6. Piptocoma ekmanii Alain - Hispaniola
  7. Piptocoma hypochlora (S.F.Blake) Pruski - Venezuela, Trinidad
  8. Piptocoma macrophylla (Sch.Bip.) Pruski - Venezuela, Colombia
  9. Piptocoma milleri (J.R.Johnst.) Pruski - Venezuela, Trinidad
  10. Piptocoma neglecta (Stutts) Pruski - Venezuela
  11. Piptocoma niceforoi (Cuatrec.) Pruski - Venezuela, Colombia
  12. Piptocoma roraimensis (Steyerm.) Pruski - Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
  13. Piptocoma rufescens Cass. - Hispaniola
  14. Piptocoma samanensis Alain - Hispaniola
  15. Piptocoma schomburgkii (Sch.Bip.) Pruski - Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Colombia, Suriname, French Guinea
  16. Piptocoma spruceana (Benth.) Pruski - Amazonas State in Venezuela
  17. Piptocoma trujillensis (Aristeg.) Pruski - Venezuela
  18. Piptocoma vernonioides (Kunth) Pruski - Venezuela
formerly included[1]

Several species now in Lychnophora

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. ↑ US Department of Agriculture Plants Profile
  3. ↑ Dr. Sterling C. Keeley, University of Hawai`i, Vernonieae- The Evil Tribe
  4. ↑ Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1817. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1817: 10 in French
  5. ↑ Tropicos, Piptocoma Cass.
  6. ↑ Pruski, John Francis. 1996. Novon 6:96-102
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