Tetradymia

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Tetradymia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Tetradymia
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Type species
Tetradymia canescens [1]
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Tetradymia is a genus of North American shrubs in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family. [1] [2] [3] [4] Horsebrush is a common name for plants in this genus. [5]

Species [6] [7] [8] [9]
formerly included [6]

see Lepidospartum Psathyrotes

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References

  1. 1 2 Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, 1838. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 440 in Latin
  2. Tropicos, Tetradymia DC.
  3. Flora of North America. "Senecioneae". Family List. 20: 540. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  4. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. "Details for: Senecioneae". Euro+Med PlantBase. Freie Universität Berlin . Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  5. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Tetradymia". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  6. 1 2 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2014-11-06 at archive.today
  7. The Plant List search for Tetradymia
  8. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
  9. Strother, J. L. 1974. Taxonomy of Tetradymia (Compositae: Senecioneae). Brittonia 26: 177–202.

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