Biology:Bahia (plant)

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Bahia
Bahia ambrosioides 4.jpg
Bahia ambrosioides
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Bahieae
Genus: Bahia
Lag. 1816 not Nutt. 1841[1]
Synonyms
  • Stylesia Nutt.
  • Bahia Nutt. 1841 not Lag. 1816
  • Picradeniopsis Rydb.
  • Antheropeas Rydb.
  • Virletia Sch.Bip. ex Benth. & Hook.f.

Bahia is a small genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The common name is also bahia. It is named in honor of the Spanish botanist Juan Francisco Bahí (1775–1841).[2]

The genus has a disjunct distribution in the southwestern United States , northern Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile , and is found in dry areas.[3]

Species[4]
  • Bahia absinthifolia – hairyseed bahia - USA (Arizona Utah New Mexico Texas ); Mexico (Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Durango, Aguascalientes)
  • Bahia ambrosioides - Chile incl. Juan Fernández Islands
  • Bahia aristata - Mexico
  • Bahia autumnalis - Nuevo León
  • Bahia bigelovii – Bigelow's bahia - western Texas , Coahuila
  • Bahia biternata – slim-lobe bahia - Arizona, New Mexico, Chihuahua
  • Bahia depauperata - Guatemala
  • Bahia glandulosa - Chihuahua, Durango
  • Bahia pedata – blunt-scale bahia - Texas , New Mexico, Durango
  • Bahia pringlei - Coahuila, Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz
  • Bahia schaffneri - Nuevo León, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas
  • Bahia xylopoda - Hidalgo, Jalisco, Puebla, San Luis Potosí

References

  1. Triopicos, search for Bahia
  2. Genaust, Helmut (1976). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen ISBN:3-7643-0755-2
  3. Ellison, W.L. 1964. A systematic study of the genus Bahia (Compositae). Rhodora 66: 67-86, 178-311.
  4. The Plant List search for Bahia

Wikidata ☰ Q2236958 entry