''Barnadesia'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s in the aster family,

Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...

. It is native to

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, where it is distributed from

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to northern

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, with most species occurring in the

Andes The Andes ( ), Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range (; ) are the List of longest mountain chains on Earth, longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range ...

.''Barnadesia''.
''Arboles y arbustos de los Andes del Ecuador''. eFloras. Common names include ''clavelillo'', ''chivo caspi'', ''espino de gato'', and ''espino santo''. These plants are mainly

shrub A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple ...

s and small

tree In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, e.g., including only woody plants with secondary growth, only ...

s,Hind, D. J. N. (2001)
A new species of ''Barnadesia'' (Compositae: Barnadesieae) from Bolivia.
''Kew Bull'' 56(3), 705-10. the largest exceeding four meters in height.Hind, N. and T. Hall. (2003). ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine'' 20(1), 25-30. The stems are spiny. The

flower heads A pseudanthium (; : pseudanthia) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, composite flowers ...

contain pink, red, or purple florets, including 8 to 13 hairy ray florets and usually either one or three disc florets. The ray floret yields a fruit with a plumelike pappus, and the fruit from a disc floret has a more "bristle-like contorted pappus". ; SpeciesFlann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
/ref>Urtubey, E. (1999)
Revisión del género ''Barnadesia'' (Asteraceae: Barnadesioideae, Barnadesieae).
''Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard'' 86(1), 57-117.

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Preliminary Checklist of the Compositae of Bolivia. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Miquel Bernades i Mainader Galeria de Metges Catalans
In Catalan Barnadesioideae Asteraceae genera Flora of Southern America Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Asteraceae-stub