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Spiracantha
Sign in to saveSpiracantha is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Vernonieae within the family Asteraceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderAsterales
- FamilyAsteraceae
Native toBelize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Collections
- US, NY, MNHN, BRIT, VT, UF
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Asteraceae
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- taxon name
- Spiracantha
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- dogwoodleaf
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Encyclopedic overview
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Spiracantha is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Vernonieae within the family Asteraceae. Species The only known species is Spiracantha cornifolia, native to Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Venezuela, Colombia, Central America, and southern Mexico (Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula).
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spiracantha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.