Gochnatia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae.Tropicos, Gochnatia Kunth It is named for botanist Frédéric Karl Gochnat. The genus contains mainly shrubs and subshrubs, with a few trees and herbs. All of the species are native to the American tropics.Hind, D. J. N. & C. Jeffrey. 2001. A checklist of the Compositae of Vol. IV of Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth's Nova Genera et Species Plantarum. Compositae Newsletter 37: 1–84. Two species native to the mountains of Southeast Asia and formerly included here are now separated as the genus Leucomeris in subfamily Wunderlichioideae.
These plants produce flower heads containing whitish or yellow disc florets each with five deep lobes. The style has short, smooth branches, and the fruit is a lightly hairy cypsela with a pappus of bristles or scales.González-Medrano, F., et al. (2004). A new species of Gochnatia (Asteraceae, Mutisieae) from the desert scrubland of the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Novon 14(4), 434-36.
Species 17 species are accepted.
Gochnatia angustifolia Gochnatia arequipensis Gochnatia avicenniifolia Gochnatia boliviana Gochnatia cardenasii Gochnatia cratensis Gochnatia curviflora Gochnatia foliolosa Gochnatia glutinosa Gochnatia lojaensis Gochnatia palosanto Gochnatia patazina Gochnatia peruviana Gochnatia recticulifolia Gochnatia sagrana Gochnatia vargasii Gochnatia vernonioides
Formerly placed here Moquiniastrum oligocephalum (as Gochnatia oligocephala ) Moquiniastrum polymorphum (as Gochnatia polymorpha) Nahuatlea arborescens (as Gochnatia arborescens) Nahuatlea hypoleuca (as Gochnatia hypoleuca) Tehuasca magna (as Gochnatia magna ) Vickia rotundifolia (as Gochnatia rotundifolia )
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