Chromolaena oteroi explained

Chromolaena oteroi, the Mona Island thoroughwort, is a species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It has been found only on Mona Island, a small island between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola in the West Indies and politically a part of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.^{[1] [2] [3]}

The shrub, with its pale purple flowers, was named after botanist José I. Otero.^[1]

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13126247#page/450/mode/1up Monachino, Joseph Vincent 1948. Phytologia 2: 406-407
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13040394#page/216/mode/1up King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest 1970. : Phytologia 20: 204
3. http://edicionesdigitales.info/biblioteca/monaflora.pdf Woodbury, RC, LF Martorell, & JG García-Turarí. 1977. Flora of Mona and Monito Islands. Bulletin of the University of Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station 252