The Desventuradas Islands is a group of four small oceanic islands located 850 kilometres (530 mi) off the coast of Chile, northwest of Santiago in the Pacific Ocean. They are considered part of Insular Chile.
Sonchus is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae and are commonly known as sow thistles. Sowthistles are annual, biennial or perennial herbs, with or without rhizomes and a few are even woody.
Cabbage tree is a common name for several plant species:
Sonchus oleraceus is a species of flowering plant in the tribe Cichorieae of the family Asteraceae, native to Europe and Western Asia. It has many common names including common sowthistle, sow thistle, smooth sow thistle, annual sow thistle, hare's colwort, hare's thistle, milky tassel, milk thistle. and soft thistle.
Sonchus berteroanus, synonym Dendroseris berteroana, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in the Juan Fernández Islands of Chile. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sonchus subg. Dendroseris is a subgenus of flowering plants in the genus Sonchus, family Asteraceae. It was formerly treated as the genus Dendroseris, with one species sometimes placed in Thamnoseris. All the species placed in the subgenus are endemic to either the Juan Fernández Islands or the Desventuradas Islands in the South Pacific, both part of Chile.
Sonchus lobatiflorus, synonym Dendroseris gigantea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands. It is threatened by habitat loss. Sonchus lobatiflorus has one plant representative left on Selkirk island, although it is being artificially planted on Robinson Crusoe Island.
Sonchus brassicifolius, synonym Dendroseris litoralis, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy and sunflower family Asteraceae. It is a small evergreen tree species known as the cabbage tree. It is endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands, which lie in the southeast Pacific, off the west coast of Chile. It is native only to the tiny, volcanic Robinson Crusoe Island, home of the famed Juania australis and many other endemic plants. The species is threatened by habitat loss and has been brought back from the brink of extinction. It had been reduced to only a few individuals by feral goats on the island, and is still considered critically endangered.
Sonchus sinuatus, synonym Dendroseris macrantha, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands of Chile. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sonchus splendens, synonym Dendroseris macrophylla, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands of Chile. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sonchus marginatus, synonym Dendroseris marginata, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands of Chile. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sonchus micranthus, synonym Dendroseris micrantha, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands of Chile. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sonchus neriifolius, synonym Dendroseris neriifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a tree with droopy, elongated leaves and small yellow-white flowers. The plant was originally native to Continental Chile but is now endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island. The plant is endangered and very rare: only two specimens are known to exist in a ravine in the eastern part of the island, although there exist other human-cultivated specimens. It is classified as critically endangered by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
Sonchus phoeniciformis, synonym Dendroseris pinnata, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands of Chile. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sonchus pruinatus, synonym Dendroseris pruinata, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands of Chile. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sonchus regius, synonym Dendroseris regia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands of Chile. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Calenduleae is a flowering plant tribe of the family Asteraceae. Calenduleae has been widely recognized since Alexandre de Cassini in the early 19th century. There are eight genera and over 110 species, mostly found in South Africa.
The San Félix–San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests are a biome located on the small oceanic archipelago known as the Islas Desventuradas The islands form part of the ocean territory of Chile, and are located 850km from the coast of Chile, and about 750km north of the Juan Fernandez Archipelago. Due to their remote nature and difficult conditions, they have not been the subject of great study. The islands themselves are 20km apart, and are likely volcanic in origin.
Sonchus canariensis, the tree sonchus, is a species of plant endemic to the Canary Islands.
Lordhowea is a genus of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern and south-eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island. The genus was established by Bertil Nordenstam in 1978.
