The Heliantheae are the third-largest tribe in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). With some 190 genera and nearly 2500 recognized species, only the tribes Senecioneae and Astereae are larger. The name is derived from the genus Helianthus, which is Greek for sun flower. Most genera and species are found in North America and South America. A few genera are pantropical.
Trixis is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Tageteae is a tribe of the plant family Asteraceae. It consists of approximately 260 species divided among 32 genera. All are found in the New World, with a center of diversity in the Mexican highlands. The type genus is Tagetes (marigolds).
Arnicastrum guerrerense, of the family Asteraceae, is a perennial herb with yellow flowers. It is found in Mexico. It was discovered in 1983 in the mountains of Sierra Madre del Sur in the Mexican state of Guerrero and described in the scientific magazine Systematic Botany 3 years later. It was found at 3200m above sea level in a coniferous forest with predominant Pinus hartwegii and Abies. Although it is just known from Mexico, the Mexican red list of endangered plants describes it as non-endemic.
Clibadium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Pseudogynoxys is a genus of flowering plant in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family, native to North and South America.
Viguiera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It contains around 19–40 species, which are commonly known as goldeneyes and are native to the New World. These are herbs to bushy shrubs that bear yellow or orange daisy-like flowers.
Urbinella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It was first published in Proc. American Academy Arts 39: 117 (1903).
Desmanthodium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Gymnolaena is a genus of Mexican flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Sinclairia is a genus of Latin American plants in the tribe Liabeae within the family Asteraceae.
Montanoa is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Heliantheae, within the family Asteraceae.
Rhysolepis was a genus of Mexican plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae. Until 2011, when botanists Schilling & Panero studied the subtribe Helianthinae based on molecular sequences of nuclear ITS, ETS, and cpDNA, coming to a conclusion that that the genus ViguieraKunth, did not constitute a monophyletic group. Among their conclusions they proposed to reclassify the genus, dividing and relocating its species in at least eleven genera: AldamaLa Llave, BahiopsisKellogg, Calanticaria(B.L. Rob. & Greenm.) E.E. Schill. & Panero, DavilanthusE.E. Schill. & Panero, DendroviguieraE.E. Schill. & Panero, GonzaleziaE.E. Schill. & Panero, HeiseriaE.E. Schill. & Panero, HeliomerisNutt., HymenostephiumBenth., SidneyaE.E. Schill. & Panero and ViguieraKunth.
Perymenium is a genus of South American and Mesoamerican plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae.
Tuxtla is a genus of Mesoamerican flowering plants, in the family Asteraceae.
Calanticaria is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.
Davilanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.
Gonzalezia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.
Dendroviguiera is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family. Its native range stretches from Mexico into Central America. Formerly part of the Viguiera genus, until a DNA study in 2011 separated out all the shrub/tree species of the Viguiera genus.
Nahuatlea is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. It includes seven species which range from southern Texas to southern Mexico.
