Galinsoga

Genus of flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae

Galinsoga
Galinsoga quadriradiata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Millerieae
Subtribe: Galinsoginae
Genus: Galinsoga
Ruiz & Pav.
Type species
Galinsoga parviflora[1][2]
Cav.
Synonyms[3]
  • Gallinsoga St.Hil.
  • Stenocarpha S.F.Blake
  • Wiborgia Roth
  • Stematella Wedd. ex Sch.Bip.
  • Galinsogaea Himpel
  • Viborgia Spreng.
  • Galinsogea Willd.
  • Stemmatella Wedd. ex Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Vigolina Poir.
  • Adventina Raf.
  • Galinsoja Roth
  • Vargasia DC.

Galinsoga is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[2][4][5] It is native to North and South America and the West Indies, and naturalized in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.[6][7]

The name Galinsoga was dedicated to Ignacio Mariano Martinez de Galinsoga, who founded the Spanish Real Academia Nacional de Medicina and was director of the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid.[8]

Species[3]

References

  1. ^ lectotype designated by Roth, Catal. Bot. 3: 78-79 (1806)
  2. ^ a b Tropicos, Galinsoga Ruiz & Pav.
  3. ^ a b Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  4. ^ Ruiz López, Hipólito & Pavón, José Antonio. 1794. Florae Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus 110, plate 24
  5. ^ Ruiz López, Hipólito & Pavón, José Antonio. 1798. Systema vegetabilium florae Peruvianae et Chilensis :characteres prodromi genericos differentias 197-199 in Latin
  6. ^ Flora of North America, Quickweed , Galinsoga Ruiz & Pavón, Fl. Peruv. Prodr. 110, plate 24. 1794.
  7. ^ Flora of China, Vol. 20-21 Page 864 牛膝菊属 niu xi ju shu Galinsoga Ruiz & Pavon, Fl. Peruv. Prodr. 110. 1794.
  8. ^ (in Spanish) Martinez de Galinsoga, Genealoga Familia Pérez Martinez
  • United States Department of Agriculture plants profile
  • Data related to Galinsoga at Wikispecies
  • Media related to Galinsoga at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
Galinsoga


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