Gochnatia Explained

Gochnatia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae.^[1] 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.^[2] Two species native to the mountains of Southeast Asia and formerly included here are now separated as the genus Leucomeris in subfamily Wunderlichioideae.^[3]

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.^{[3] [4]}

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)
• Vickia rotundifolia (as Gochnatia rotundifolia)

Notes and References

1. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40015656 Tropicos, Gochnatia Kunth
2. 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.
3. Web site: Gochnatia . B. B. . Simpson . Flora of North America . eFloras.org . 2011-09-11.
4. 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.