''Boopis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family
Calyceraceae
Calyceraceae is a plant family in the order Asterales. The natural distribution of the about sixty species belonging to this family is restricted to the southern half of South America. The species of the family resemble both the family Asteraceae ...
, which includes two species native to Argentina, central Chile, and Uruguay.
The taxon formerly included more species. It was found to be highly
polyphyletic
A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as Homoplasy, homoplasies ...
, and several species were moved to other genera.
[Silvia S. Denham, Nicolás F. Brignone, Leigh A. Johnson, Raúl E. Pozner (2019) Using integrative taxonomy and multispecies coalescent models for phylogeny reconstruction and species delimitation within the “Nastanthus–Gamocarpha” clade (Calyceraceae). ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'', Volume 130, 2019, Pages 211-226, ISSN 1055-7903, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.015.]
Species
Two species are currently accepted:
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Boopis anthemoides
''Boopis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Calyceraceae, which includes two species native to Argentina, central Chile, and Uruguay. The taxon formerly included more species. It was found to be highly polyphyletic
A polyphyletic ...
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Boopis breviscapa
''Boopis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Calyceraceae, which includes two species native to Argentina, central Chile, and Uruguay. The taxon formerly included more species. It was found to be highly polyphyletic, and several specie ...
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References
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Calyceraceae
Asterales genera
Flora of southern South America