Vittadinia | |
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Vittadinia arida | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
Tribe: | Astereae |
Subtribe: | Brachyscominae |
Genus: | Vittadinia A.Rich. |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Vittadinia is a genus of Australian and New Zealand plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. [2] [3]
The genus Vittadinia is attributed to the French botanist Achille Richard in 1832. [4] He described a species collected in New Zealand as Vittadinia australis , noting that although it had similarities to the genus Aster , there were sufficient differences to distinguish it. Two he considered significant were that Vittadinia has only two rows of involucral bracts and that its anthers are free and bent into a shape resembling a bayonet. [2]
Although species of Vittadinia were described from Hawaii by Asa Gray, [5] and are accepted by some sources, [1] these are now considered to belong to the genus Tetramolopium by the online Flora of the Hawaiian Islands, [6] so that Vittadinia does not occur in Hawaii.
Species formerly included in the genus Vittadinia, but now placed in Baccharis , Camptacra , Microgyne , Minuria and Tetramolopium , include: [1]