''Lourteigia'' is a genus of South American

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 tribe

Eupatorieae Eupatorieae is a Tribe (biology), tribe of over 2000D.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 edi ...

within 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: 28-30
/ref> The genus name of ''Lourteigia'' is in honour of

Alicia Lourteig Alicia Lourteig (1913–2003) was an Argentine and French botanist, world specialist in Oxalidaceae. Personal life and education Alicia Lourteig was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her parents originated from France and Argentina. She studied p ...

(1913–2003), an Argentine and French botanist, who was a world specialist in

Oxalidaceae The Oxalidaceae, or wood sorrel family, are a small family of five genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees, with the great majority of the 570 species in the genus ''Oxalis'' (wood sorrels). Members of this family typically have divid ...

plants. It was first described and published in

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Vol.21 on page 28 in 1971. ; SpeciesFlann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist

References

Eupatorieae Flora of Southern America Asteraceae genera Plants described in 1971 {{Eupatorieae-stub