Acourtia

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Acourtia
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Acourtia runcinata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Mutisioideae
Tribe: Nassauvieae
Genus: Acourtia
D.Don [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Perezia section Acourtia(D. Don) A. Gray
  • ClarioniaD.Don

Acourtia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae and was first described as a genus in 1830. [3] [4] [5] It includes desertpeonies, such as Acourtia nana (dwarf desertpeony) and Acourtia runcinata (featherleaf desertpeony). [6]

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The genus name of Acourtia is in honour of Mary Elizabeth Catherine Gibbs à Court-Repington (1792–1878), an English noblewoman with botanical interests, who married Charles Ashe à Court-Repington. [7]

Plants in this genus are native to the Southwestern United States (from Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah to Texas) and Mesoamerica (in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico). [8] [9] They are diverse in appearance. The flowers are usually white, pink, or purple. [2] [10] [11] Their flower heads are usually composed of only disc florets, though some are long and look like ray florets.

Accepted species

81 species (as of January 2022), [8]

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References

  1. "Genus: Acourtia D. Don". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1994-09-07. Archived from the original on 2009-05-06. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
  2. 1 2 Flora of North America Vol. 19 Page 72, Acourtia D. Don
  3. Don, David. 1830. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 16(2): 203–204 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
  4. Tropicos, Acourtia D. Don
  5. Reveal, J. L. and R. M. King. 1973. Re-establishment of Acourtia D. Don (Asteraceae). Phytologia 27: 228–232
  6. Michael Eason Wildflowers of Texas (2018) , p. 326, at Google Books
  7. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  8. 1 2 "Acourtia D.Don | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  9. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
  10. Davidse, G., M. Sousa-Peña, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2014. Asteraceae. 5(2): ined. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F.
  11. Nelson, C. H. 2008. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Honduras 1–1576. Secretaria de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Tegucigalpa