Heiseria

Heiseria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Heiseria
E.E.Schill. & Panero

Heiseria is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.[1]

It is native to Peru.[1]

Botanists Edward E. Schilling and José Luis Panero in 2002 and 2011, studied the subtribe Helianthinae based on molecular sequences of nuclear ITS, ETS, and cpDNA, coming to a conclusion that that the genus Viguiera Kunth, did not constitute a monophyletic group. Among their conclusions they proposed to reclassify the genus, dividing and relocating its species in at least eleven genera: Aldama La Llave, Bahiopsis Kellogg, Calanticaria (B.L. Rob. & Greenm.) E.E. Schill. & Panero, Davilanthus E.E. Schill. & Panero, Dendroviguiera E.E. Schill. & Panero, Gonzalezia, Heliomeris Nutt., Heiseria E.E. Schill. & Panero, Hymenostephium Benth., Sidneya E.E. Schill. & Panero, and Viguiera Kunth.[2][3]

The genus name of Heiseria is in honour of Charles Bixler Heiser (1920–2010), an American professor of botany.[4] It was first described and published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. Vol.167 on page 327 in 2011.[1]

Known species, according to Kew:[1]

  1. ^ a b c d "Heiseria E.E.Schill. & Panero | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  2. ^ Schilling, E.E.; Panero, J.L. (2002). "A revised classification of subtribe Helianthinae (Asteraceae: Heliantheae) I. Basal lineages". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 140: 65–76. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.00079.x.
  3. ^ Schilling, Edward E.; Panero, Jose L. (November 2011). "A revised classification of subtribe Helianthinae (Asteraceae: Heliantheae) II. Derived lineages". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (3): 311–331. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01172.x.
  4. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.