Robinsonia (plant)

wireweed
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Senecioneae
Genus:	Robinsonia; DC.
Type species
	; Decne.
Synonyms
	Rhetinodendron Meisn.; Balbisia DC.; Symphyochaeta (DC.) Skottsb.;

Robinsonia is a genus of plants in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family.^[2]^[3]

Species^[1]

All the species are endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of the Republic of Chile.^[1] The genus is named for the fictional character Robinson Crusoe, purportedly shipwrecked in this chain of islands.^[4]

(DC.) R.W.Sanders, Stuessy & Martic.
Phil.
Decne.
Decne.
Decne.
Skottsb.
Decne.

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
^ Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1833. Archives de Botanique 2: 333
^ Tropicos, Robinsonia DC.
^ Daniel Defoe. 1719. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. London: W. Taylor

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[y-1] Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist

[2] Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1833. Archives de Botanique 2: 333

[3] Tropicos, Robinsonia DC.

[4] Daniel Defoe. 1719. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. London: W. Taylor

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