Vittadinia

Vittadinia is a genus of Australian and New Zealand plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.

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GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderAsterales
FamilyAsteraceae

Native toNew Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Observations recorded67,170

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records: 166
With media: 85
Family: Asteraceae
Collections: BRIT, MEL, RSA
Recorded in: Costa Rica, Australia

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Vittadinia is a genus of Australian and New Zealand plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.

==Taxonomy== The genus Vittadinia is attributed to the French botanist Achille Richard in 1832. 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.

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