Hymenoxys

Hymenoxys
Hymenoxys hoopesii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Helenieae
Subtribe: Tetraneurinae
Genus: Hymenoxys
Cass.
Type species
Hymenoxys anthemoides
(Juss.) Cass.
Synonyms
  • Plummera A.Gray
  • Dugaldia Cass.
  • Actinella Juss. ex Nutt.
  • Phileozera Buckley
  • Macdougalia A.Heller

Hymenoxys (rubberweed or bitterweed) is a genus of plants in the sunflower family, native to North and South America. It was named by Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini in 1828.

Plants of this genus are toxic to sheep due to the presence of the sesquiterpene lactone hymenoxon.

Species
formerly included

References

  1. 1 2 3 Tropicos, Hymenoxys Cass.
  2. 1 2 "Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist". Retrieved 2014-12-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ↑ Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de, in Cuvier, F. 1828. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles [Second edition] 55: 278–279in French
  4. ↑ Flora of North America, Bitterweed, rubberweed, Hymenoxys Cassini 1828.
  5. ↑ Everitt, J.H.; Lonard, R.L.; Little, C.R. (2007). Weeds in South Texas and Northern Mexico. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 0-89672-614-2
  6. ↑ Pfeiffer, F. A. and M. C. Calhoun. (1987). Effects of environmental, site, and phenological factors on hymenoxon content of bitterweed, Hymenoxys odorata. Journal of Animal Science 65 1553-62.
  7. ↑ Texas A&M University, Toxicity: H. odorata Archived 2007-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
  9. ↑ Turner, B. L. 2013. The comps of Mexico. A systematic account of the family Asteraceae (chapter 11: tribe Helenieae). Phytologia Memoirs 16: 1–100.
  10. ↑ The Plant List search for Hymenoxys
  11. 1 2 The Plant List, search for Hymenoxys