Wedelia
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| Wedelia | |
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| Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
| Tribe: | Heliantheae[1] |
| Subtribe: | Ecliptinae |
| Genus: | Wedelia Jacq.[2] |
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Several, see text |
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Anomostephium DC. |
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Wedelia is a flowering plant genus in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. They are one of the genera commonly called "creeping-oxeyes".[3] The name of the genus honours German physician Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645–1721).[4]
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[edit] Selected species
- Wedelia acapulcensis Kunth – Acapulco Wedelia
- Wedelia acapulcensis var. acapulcensis
- Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida (Kunth) Strother (=W. hispida Kunth, W. texana auct.) – Hairy Wedelia
- Wedelia asperrima (Decne.) Benth.
- Wedelia buphthalmiflora Lorentz
- Wedelia calendulacea Less.
- Wedelia calycina Rich. – Coastal Plain Creeping-oxeye
- Wedelia chinensis (Osbeck) Merr.
- Wedelia fruticosa Jacq. – Smallflower Creeping-oxeye
- Wedelia hispida, see Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida
- Wedelia lanceolata DC. – Riverbank Creeping-oxeye
- Wedelia oxylepis S.F.Blake (Ecuador)
- Wedelia parviflora L.C. Rich. – Smallflower Creeping-oxeye
- Wedelia prostrata
- Wedelia reticulata DC. – Manazanilla del Monte
- Wedelia spilanthoides F.Muell.[3][5]
[edit] Formerly placed here
- Melanthera biflora (L.) Wild (as W. biflora (L.) DC. or W. canescens (Gaudich.) Merr.)
- Pascalia glauca Ortega (as W. glauca (Ortega) O.Hoffm. ex Hicken)
- Sphagneticola trilobata (L.) Pruski (as W. carnosa Rich. ex Spreng., W. paludosa DC., or W. trilobata (L.) Hitchc.)[5][6]
[edit] References
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- ^ "Genus Wedelia". Taxonomy. UniProt. http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/183097. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
- ^ a b "Genus: Wedelia Jacq.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?12794. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
- ^ a b "Wedelia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=38662. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
- ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology. IV R-Z. Taylor & Francis US. p. 2823. ISBN 9780849326783. http://books.google.com/books?id=zIOvJSJs-IkC.
- ^ a b "Species Records of Wedelia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?12794. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
- ^ "Sphagneticola trilobata (herb)". Global Invasive Species Database. Invasive Species Specialist Group. 2007-05-31. http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?si=44. Retrieved 2010-06-07.
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