Trixis
Encyclopedia
Trixis is a genus
of flowering plant
s in the aster family, Asteraceae
. Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from τριχος (trixos), the Greek
word for threefold.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the aster family, Asteraceae
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
. Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from τριχος (trixos), the Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
word for threefold.
Selected species
- Trixis californicaTrixis californicaTrixis californica , , is a perennial shrub or subshrub of the Asteraceae family, the sunflower, aster, daisy family...
KelloggAlbert KelloggDr. Albert Kellogg , was an American physician, northern California botanist, and one of seven founders in 1853 of the California Academy of Sciences.-California Academy of Sciences:...
– American Threefold, American Trixis, California Trixis - Trixis inula CrantzHeinrich Johann Nepomuk von CrantzHeinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz was a botanist and a physician.He obtained his doctorate of medicine in Vienna in 1750...
– Tropical Threefold - Trixis radialis (L.) KuntzeOtto KuntzeOtto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...
Formerly placed here
- Clibadium erosum (Sw.Olof SwartzOlof Peter Swartz was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes...
) DC. (as T. erosa Sw.)