Tithonia rotundifolia

Tithonia rotundifolia

Tithonia rotundifolia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Asteraceae
Subfamilia: Asteroideae
Tribus: Heliantheae
Subtribus: Helianthinae
Genus: Tithonia
Subgenus: T. subg. Tithonia
Series: T. ser. Tithonia
Species: Tithonia rotundifolia

Name

Tithonia rotundifolia (Mill.) S.F.Blake (1917)

• Type-protologue: Mexico: Veracruz: Cult. in England, s.d. Houstoun s.n.. HT: BM.

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Tagetes rotundifolia Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 8. 1768.

• Heterotypic
  • Helianthus speciosus Hook., Bot. Mag. 61: t. 3295. 1834.
  • Leighia speciosa (Hook.) DC., Prodr. 5: 583. 1836.
  • Tithonia aristata Oerst., Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk Naturhist. Foren. Kjoebenhavn 1852: 114. 1852.
  • Tithonia heterophylla Griseb., Bonplnadia 6: 9. 1858.
  • Tithonia macrophylla S.Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 26: 140. 1891.
  • Tithonia speciosa (Hook.) Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub. 155. 1866.
  • Tithonia tagetiflora Lam., Tabl. Encycl. t. 708. 1797.
  • Tithonia tagetiflora Desf., Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 1: 49, pl. 4. 1802, nom. illeg. non Lam. (1797).
  • Tithonia uniflora Desf. ex J.F.Gmel., Syst. Nat. 2: 1259. 1791.
  • Tithonia vilmoriniana Pamp., Boll. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1908: 133. 1908.
  • Urbanisol aristata (Oerst.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 371. 1891.
  • Urbanisol heterophylla (Griseb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 371. 1891.
  • Urbanisol tagetifolia Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 370. 1891.
  • Urbanisol tagetifolia var. normalis Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 370. 1891, nom. inadmiss.
  • Urbanisol tagetifolia var. speciosa (Hook.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 370. 1891.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Southern America Colombia (Cauca, Valle), Venezuela (Aragua, Carabobo, Dependencias Federales, Merida, Miranda, Sucre), Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas), Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, Peru Introduced into: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Botswana, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, Haiti, India, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico, Queensland, South European Russi, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Vietnam, Windward Is., Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

• Blake, S.F. 1917: Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. Cambridge, MA 52: 41.

Links

• International Plant Names Index. 2018. Tithonia rotundifolia. Published online. Accessed: Feb. 09 2018.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Tithonia rotundifolia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Feb. 09. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2018. Tithonia rotundifolia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 09 Feb. 2018.
• Hassler, M. 2018. Tithonia rotundifolia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Feb. 09. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Mexican sunflower, clavel de muerto
日本語: チトニア

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