''Coreopsis buchii'' is a species of flowering plant in the tickseed tribe within the daisy family. It is endemic to the island of

Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ) is an island between Geography of Cuba, Cuba and Geography of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and the second-largest by List of C ...

(the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...

and

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

). The species was first described by

Ignatz Urban Ignatz Urban (7 January 1848 – 7 January 1931) was a German botany, botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Botanical Garden in Berlin, Berlin Botanical Garden. B ...

in 1915 as ''Selleophytum buchii'', the sole species in genus ''Selleophytum''.Urban, Ignatz. 1915. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 13: 483-484
in Latin In 1924 Sidney Fay Blake placed the species in genus ''Coreopsis'' as ''Coreopsis buchii''.Blake, Sydney Fay. 1924. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 22(8): 641–642
in English

References

buchii Flora of the Dominican Republic Flora of Haiti Endemic flora of Hispaniola Plants described in 1915 Taxa named by Ignatz Urban {{Coreopsideae-stub