Wedelia
Encyclopedia
Wedelia is a flowering plant
genus
in the sunflower
family
, Asteraceae
. They are one of the genera commonly called "creeping-oxeyes". The name of the genus honours German physician Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645–1721).
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...
genus
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...
in the sunflower
Sunflower
Sunflower is an annual plant native to the Americas. It possesses a large inflorescence . The sunflower got its name from its huge, fiery blooms, whose shape and image is often used to depict the sun. The sunflower has a rough, hairy stem, broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves and circular heads...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
, 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...
. They are one of the genera commonly called "creeping-oxeyes". The name of the genus honours German physician Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645–1721).
Selected species
- Wedelia acapulcensisWedelia acapulcensisWedelia acapulcensis, commonly known as Acapulco Wedelia, is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. It is native to Texas in the United States, Mexico, and Central America.-Varieties:...
Kunth – Acapulco Wedelia- Wedelia acapulcensis var. acapulcensis
- Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida (Kunth) Strother (=W. hispida Kunth, W. texana auct.) – Hairy Wedelia
- Wedelia asperrima (Decne.) Benth.
- Wedelia buphthalmiflora Lorentz
- Wedelia calendulaceaWedelia calendulaceaWedelia calendulacea is a flowering plant species in the genus genus Wedelia. W. calendulacea produces wedelolactone and demethylwedelolactone.-External links:*...
Less. - Wedelia calycina Rich. – Coastal Plain Creeping-oxeye
- Wedelia chinensis (Osbeck) Merr.
- Wedelia fruticosa Jacq. – Smallflower Creeping-oxeye
- Wedelia lanceolata DC. – Riverbank Creeping-oxeye
- Wedelia oxylepisWedelia oxylepisWedelia oxylepis is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family.It is found only in Ecuador.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...
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) - Wedelia parviflora L.C. Rich. – Smallflower Creeping-oxeye
- Wedelia prostrata
- Wedelia reticulata DC. – Manazanilla del Monte
- Wedelia spilanthoidesWedelia spilanthoidesWedelia spilanthoides is a herbaceous flowering plant in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. The natural habitat is open woodland of Australia and New Guinea. It was first described by Victorian State Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1865....
F.Muell.
Formerly placed here
- Melanthera biflora (L.) Wild (as W. biflora (L.) DC. or W. canescens (Gaudich.) Merr.)
- Pascalia glauca Ortega (as W. glauca (Ortega) O.Hoffm. ex Hicken)
- Sphagneticola trilobata (L.) Pruski (as W. carnosa Rich. ex Spreng., W. paludosa DC., or W. trilobata (L.) Hitchc.)