Piqueria Explained

Piqueria is a genus of Caribbean and Mesoamerican plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species^{[4] [5]}

• Piqueria glandulosa B.L.Turner - Michoacán
• Piqueria hintonii R.M.King - Guerrero
• Piqueria laxiflora B.L.Rob. & Seaton - Jalisco, Durango, Michoacán, Zacatecas
• Piqueria pilosa Kunth - Michoacán, Oaxaca, México State, Hidalgo, Guanajuato, D.F., Tamaulipas, Chiapas, Tlaxcala
• Piqueria pringlei B.L.Rob. & Seaton - México State
• Piqueria serrata A.Gray - San Luis Potosí, Jalisco, México State
• Piqueria triflora Hemsl. - Durango, Guerrero, Sinaloa, Michoacán, Nayarit, Jalisco
• Piqueria trinervia Cav. - from Tamaulipas to Panamá, also Hispaniola

formerly included^[6] Several dozen species once included in Piqueria but now considered better suited to other genera: Acritopappus Ageratum Alomia Clibadium Ellenbergia Erythradenia Gardnerina Guevaria Gymnocoronis Koanophyllon Ophryosporus Phalacraea Richterago Teixeiranthus Trichogonia

Notes and References

1. D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg.
2. Cavanilles, Antonio José. 1795. Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum 3(1): 18
3. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40009440 Tropicos, Piqueria Cav.
4. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Piqueria The Plant List search for Piqueria
5. Turner, B. L. 1997. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 1 -- Eupatorieae. Phytologia Memoirs 11: i–iv, 1–272
6. http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/compositaeweb/Default.aspx?Page=AdvNameSearch Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist