Egletes
| Egletes | |
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| Egletes viscosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
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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
- Egletes domingensis Cass. - Hispaniola
- Egletes floribunda Poepp. - Amazonas State in Brazil
- Egletes florida Shinners - Venezuela, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago
- Egletes humifusa Less. - Ecuador
- Egletes liebmannii Sch.Bip. ex Hemsl. - Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Mexico
- Egletes obovata Benth. ex Oerst. - Colombia
- Egletes prostrata (Sw.) Kuntze - West Indies, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, northern Brazil
- Egletes repens Shinners - Venezuela, Colombia
- Egletes tenuifolia Cuatrec. - Colombia
- Egletes viscosa (L.) Less. - Texas, Mexico, Central America, West Indies, South America
References
- ^ Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1817. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1817: 153 in French
- ^ 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.
- ^ Tropicos, Egletes Cass.