Flourensia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Flourensia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Flourensia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Flourensia
Flourensia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It contains subshrubs and shrubs, which are commonly known as tarworts. They are found in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and central South America (Bolivia and northern Argentina). The genus name honours French physiologist Jean Pierre Flourens (1794–1867).
Phylogenetic studies found that the genus as previously circumscribed was polyphyletic, and in 2023 many of the South American species were placed in the new genus Austroflourensia.
...Flourensia in languages:
- English
- Tarworts
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Flourensia angustifolia
- Flourensia blakeana
- Flourensia cajabambensis
- Flourensia campestris
- Flourensia cernua
- Flourensia collodes
- Flourensia dentata
- Flourensia fiebrigii
- Flourensia glutinosa
- Flourensia heterolepis
- Flourensia hirta
- Flourensia hirtissima
- Flourensia ilicifolia
- Flourensia laurifolia
- Flourensia leptopoda
- Flourensia macroligulata
- Flourensia macrophylla
- Flourensia microphylla
- Flourensia monticola
- Flourensia niederleinii
- Flourensia oolepis
- Flourensia polycephala
- Flourensia polyclada
- Flourensia pringlei
- Flourensia pulcherrima
- Flourensia resinosa
- Flourensia retinophylla
- Flourensia riparia
- Flourensia solitaria
- Flourensia suffrutescens
- Flourensia thurifera
- Flourensia tortuosa





























































