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Xanthisma

Sleepy-daisy
Xanthisma spinulosum 3.jpg
Xanthisma spinulosum
on Frenchman Mountain, Nevada
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae
Genus: Xanthisma
DC.
Type species
Xanthisma texanum
DC.
Synonyms
  • Xanthisma sect. Sideranthus (Nutt. ex Nees) D.R.Morgan & R.L.Hartm.
  • Machaeranthera subg. Sideranthus (Nutt. ex Nees) R.L.Hartm.
  • Sideranthus Nutt. ex Nees
  • Centauridium Torr. & A.Gray
  • Machaeranthera sect. Sideranthus (Nutt. ex Nees) R.L.Hartm.
  • Machaeranthera sect. Stenoloba R.L.Hartm.
  • Sideranthus Nutt.
  • Eriocarpum Nutt.

Xanthisma, common name sleepy-daisy, is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family.

The generic name comes from the Greek "xanthos," "yellow", and "-ismos," "condition." It was first described in 1836 from material collected in "The Mexican Province of Texas."



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