''Gynoxys'' is a genus of
South American
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 ...
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 ...
. It includes 117 species which range from Venezuela through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia to northwestern Argentina.
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Recent phylogenomic and morphological studies found the species of the former genus ''Nordenstamia'' were nested within ''Gynoxys'', and ''Nordenstamia'' has now been subsumed into ''Gynoxys''.]
Species
117 speciea are accepted.[
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References
Asteraceae genera
Flora of Southern America
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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