Chromolaena oteroi
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Eupatorium oteroi Monach. | |
Chromolaena oteroi (Mona Island thoroughwort),[2] is a West Indian species of flowering shrub in the sunflower family. It has been found only on Mona Island in the West Indies, a small island located between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola but politically part of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.[3][4][5]
Chromolaena oteroi is a shrub with pale purple flowers.[3]
The plant is named for the botanist José I. Otero.[3]
References
- ^ The Plant List, Chromolaena oteroi (Monach.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Chromolaena oteroi". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
- ^ a b c Monachino, Joseph Vincent 1948. Phytologia 2: 406-407
- ^ King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest 1970. : Phytologia 20: 204
- ^ Woodbury, RC, LF Martorell, & JG García-Turarí. 1977. Flora of Mona and Monito Islands. Bulletin of the University of Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station 252