''Monticalia'' 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 ...
.
Species include:
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Monticalia angustifolia''
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Monticalia befarioides''
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Monticalia empetroides''
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Monticalia microdon''
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Monticalia micropachyphyllus''
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Monticalia mutisii''
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Monticalia myrsinites''
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Monticalia nitida''
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Monticalia peruviana''
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Monticalia pulchella''
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Monticalia rosmarinifolia''
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Monticalia stuebelii''
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Monticalia teretifolia''
Taxonomy
The genus was described by Charles Jeffrey and published in ''
Kew Bulletin
The ''Kew Bulletin'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal on plant and fungal taxonomy and conservation published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Articles on palynology, cytology, anatomy, ...
'' 47: 69. 1992.
References
Asteraceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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