Robinsonia (plant)
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Kingdom: | Plantae
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(unranked): | Angiosperms
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Tribe: | Senecioneae[1]
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Genus: | Robinsonia DC.
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Type species | |
Decne.
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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
Categories:
- Senecioneae
- Asteraceae genera
- Flora of the Juan Fernández Islands
- Senecioneae stubs