Robinsonia (plant)

Robinsonia
Robinsonia gracilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Robinsonia
DC.
Type species
Robinsonia gayana
Synonyms
  • Ingenhouzia Bertero ex DC.
  • Rhetinodendron Meisn.
  • Symphyochaeta (DC.) Skottsb.
  • Vendredia Baill.

Robinsonia is a genus of plants in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family. All the species are endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of the Republic of Chile. The genus is named for the fictional character Robinson Crusoe, purportedly shipwrecked in this chain of islands.

Species

Eight species are accepted.

References

  1. 1 2 "Robinsonia DC". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
  2. ↑ Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1833. Archives de Botanique 2: 333
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Robinsonia DC.
  4. ↑ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  5. ↑ Daniel Defoe. 1719. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. London: W. Taylor