Asteraceae

Centratherum Cass.

First published in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1817: 31 (1817)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is S. Tropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela

Introduced into:

Bangladesh, Benin, Cameroon, China South-Central, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, Gabon, Galápagos, Ghana, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Leeward Is., Madeira, Malaya, Mexico Central, Mexico Southeast, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Northern Territory, Panamá, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Western Australia, Windward Is., Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Robinson, H. & Funk, V. (2018). 190(1). Compositae-Vernonieae. Flora of Ecuador 94: 1-128. Gothenburg University.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Dict. Sci. Nat. 7: 383 (1817).
  • in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1817: 31

Other Data

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Sources

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0