''Barrosoa'' 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 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 ...
.
[D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg.][King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1971. Phytologia 21: 26-27]
/ref>Tropicos, ''Barrosoa'' R.M. King & H. Rob.
/ref> All the species are endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
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*'' Barrosoa apiculata'' (Gardner) R.M.King & H.Rob.
*'' Barrosoa atlantica''
*'' Barrosoa betonicaeformis''
*'' Barrosoa betonicifolia'' R.M.King & H.Rob.
*'' Barrosoa betoniciformis'' (DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
*'' Barrosoa cabrerae'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
*'' Barrosoa candolleana'' (Hook. & Arn.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
*'' Barrosoa confluentis'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
*'' Barrosoa grossedentata'' V.M.Badillo
*'' Barrosoa metensis'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
*'' Barrosoa organensis'' (Gardner) R.M.King & H.Rob.
*'' Barrosoa ramboi'' (Cabrera) R.M.King & H.Rob.
*'' Barrosoa trianae'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
References
Eupatorieae
Asteraceae genera
Flora of Southern America
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