Guardiola (plant)

Guardiola is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Mexico and the southwestern United States.^[4][5][6] Members of the genus are subshrubs with simple, opposite leaves and terminal inflorescences.^[2][6]

Guardiola
Guardiola tulocarpus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Asteroideae
Tribe:	Millerieae
Subtribe:	Guardiolinae H.Rob.
Genus:	Guardiola Cerv. ex Bonpl.
Type species
Guardiola mexicana[1] Bonpl.
Synonyms[2][3]
Tulocarpus Hook. & Arn.

Originally placed in the subtribe Melampodiinae,^[7] the genus was placed in its own subtribe, Guardiolinae, by Harold Robinson in 1978.^[2]

Species^[8][9]

• Guardiola angustifolia (A.Gray ex A.Gray) B.L.Rob. - Jalisco
• Guardiola arguta B.L.Rob. - Sonora
• Guardiola carinata B.L.Rob. - Nayarit
• †Guardiola diehlii M.E.Jones - New Mexico but probably extinct^[10]
• Guardiola mexicana Humb. & Bonpl. - from Durango to Oaxaca
• Guardiola odontophylla B.L.Rob. - Durango
• Guardiola palmeri B.L.Rob. - Durango
• Guardiola pappifera Paul G.Wilson - Guerrero
• Guardiola platyphylla A.Gray - Arizona (Gila, Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise Counties),^[11] Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua
• Guardiola rosei B.L.Rob. - Chihuahua, Nayarit, Durango
• Guardiola rotundifolia B.L.Rob. - Jalisco
• Guardiola stenodonta S.F.Blake - Sinaloa
• Guardiola thompsonii P.Van Faasen - Michoacán^[12]
• Guardiola tulocarpus A.Gray - from Sinaloa + Veracruz to Oaxaca

References

1. Tropicos, Guardiola Cerv. ex Bonpl.
2. Robinson, Harold (1981). "A Revision of the Tribal and Subtribal Limits of the Heliantheae (Asteraceae)" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 51: 1–102.
3. The Plant List search for Guardiola
4. Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre. 1807. Plantes équinoxiales recueillies au Mexique : dans l'île de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana et de Barcelone, aux Andes de la Nouvelle Grenade, de Quito et du Pérou, et sur les bords du rio-Negro de Orénoque et de la rivière des Amazones 1(6): 143–146 in Latin
5. Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre. 1807. Plantes équinoxiales recueillies au Mexique : dans l'île de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana et de Barcelone, aux Andes de la Nouvelle Grenade, de Quito et du Pérou, et sur les bords du rio-Negro de Orénoque et de la rivière des Amazones 1(6): plate 41 black & white drawing of Guardiola mexicana
6. Strother, John L. "Guardiola". Flora of North America. eFloras.org. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
7. Robinson, B.L. (1899). "Revision of the Genus Guardiola". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 26 (5): 232–235. doi:10.2307/2477748. JSTOR 2477748.
8. "Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist". Archived from the original on 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2014-12-01.
9. CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, México D.F.
10. Jones, Marcus Eugene. 1908. Contributions to Western Botany 12: 48
11. Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map
12. Van Faasen, Paul (1976). "A New Species of Guardiola Humb. & Bonpl. (Compositae-Heliantheae)". The Southwestern Naturalist. 21 (1): 27–29. doi:10.2307/3670320. JSTOR 3670320.

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