Heliomeris

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Heliomeris
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Heliomeris multiflora var. nevadensis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Heliantheae
Subtribe: Helianthinae
Genus: Heliomeris
Nutt. 1848
Synonyms [1]
  • Viguiera sect. Heliomeris(Nutt.) S.F.Blake

Heliomeris is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, [2] [3] known generally as false goldeneyes. [4]

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They are native to the western United States and northern Mexico. One species, H. obscura , is separated from the others, endemic to a remote area on the border between the Mexican states of Puebla and Oaxaca. [5]

These are annual and perennial herbs producing sunflower-like radiate flower heads. They are distinguished from related genera by the achenes, which are glabrous and lack a pappus, and by the involucre, which consists of only 2 series of bracts. [4]

Botanists Schilling & Panero in 2002 and 2011, studied the subtribe Helianthinae based on molecular sequences of nuclear ITS, ETS, and cpDNA, coming to a conclusion that that the genus Viguiera Kunth, did not constitute a monophyletic group. Among their conclusions they proposed to reclassify the genus, dividing and relocating its species in at least other nine genera: Aldama La Llave, Bahiopsis Kellogg, Calanticaria (B.L. Rob. & Greenm.) E.E. Schill. & Panero, Davilanthus E.E. Schill. & Panero, Dendroviguiera E.E. Schill. & Panero, Gonzalezia E.E. Schill. & Panero, Heiseria E.E. Schill. & Panero, HeliomerisNutt., Hymenostephium Benth., Sidneya E.E. Schill. & Panero and ViguieraKunth. [6] [7]

Species

As accepted; [1] [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. Nuttall, Thomas. 1848. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4(1): 19 (entirely in English)
  3. Tropicos, Heliomeris Nutt.
  4. 1 2 Flora North America, Heliomeris Nutt.
  5. Yates, W. F., Jr. and C. B. Heiser Jr. 1979. Synopsis of Heliomeris (Compositae). Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 88: 364-372.
  6. Schilling, E.E.; Panero, J.L. (2002). "A revised classification of subtribe Helianthinae (Asteraceae: Heliantheae) I. Basal lineages". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 140: 65–76. doi: 10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.00079.x .
  7. Schilling, Edward E.; Panero, Jose L. (November 2011). "A revised classification of subtribe Helianthinae (Asteraceae: Heliantheae) II. Derived lineages". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (3): 311–331. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01172.x .
  8. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps