Selleophytum is a
genus of flowering plants in the
tickseed tribe within the
daisy family
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
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[Urban, Ignatz. 1915. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 13: 483-484]
in Latin
The only known species is ''Selleophytum buchii'', native to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
[Blake, Sydney Fay. 1924. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 22(8): 641–642]
in Englisy
References
Coreopsideae
Monotypic Asteraceae genera
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