Dahlia coccinea Cav.
First published in Icon. 3: 33 (1795)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico to El Salvador. It is a tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest
Introduced into:
Bolivia, Ethiopia, Germany, Great Britain, Madeira, Peru, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Bidens cervantesii B.D.Jacks. in Index Kew. 1: 300 (1893), nom. superfl.
- Bidens coccinea (Cav.) Baill. in Hist. Pl. 8: 49 (1882)
- Dahlia bidentifolia Salisb. in Parad. Lond. 1: t. 19 (1805), nom. superfl.
- Dahlia crocea var. coccinea (Cav.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 2: 445 (1812)
- Dahlia frustranea W.T.Aiton in Hortus Kew. 5: 88 (1813), nom. superfl.
- Dahlia pinnata var. coccinea (Cav.) Voss in Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 489 (1894)
- Georgia coccinea (Cav.) Spreng. in Gartenzeit. 2: 28 (1804)
- Georgina coccinea (Cav.) Willd. in Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 3: 2124 (1803)
- Georgina frustranea DC. in Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 15: 310 (1810), nom. superfl.
- Georgina frustranea var. coccinea (Cav.) DC. in Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 15: 310 (1810)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Bidens cervantesii Baill. in Hist. Pl. 8: 305 (1882)
- Dahlia acutiflora Moc. & Sessé ex DC. in Prodr. 5: 494 (1836), not validly publ.
- Dahlia cervantesii (Lag. ex Sweet) Lag. ex DC. in Prodr. 5: 494 (1836)
- Dahlia chisholmii in Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 29: 439 (1905)
- Dahlia coccinea var. gentryi (Sherff) Sherff in Amer. J. Bot. 34: 152 (1947)
- Dahlia coccinea var. palmeri Sherff in Amer. J. Bot. 33: 508 (1946)
- Dahlia coccinea var. steyermarkii Sherff in Amer. J. Bot. 31: 280 (1944)
- Dahlia coronata Sprague in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1929: 53 (1929)
- Dahlia crocata Sessé ex Lag. in Gen. Sp. Pl.: 30 (1816)
- Dahlia crocea (Willd.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 2: 445 (1812)
- Dahlia crocea var. flava (Willd.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 2: 445 (1812)
- Dahlia gentryi Sherff in Amer. J. Bot. 29: 332 (1942)
- Dahlia gracilis Ortgies in Gartenflora 25: 971 (1876)
- Dahlia lutea Van den Berg in Gard. Chron., n.s., 12: 521 (1879)
- Dahlia pinnata var. cervantesii (Lag. ex Sweet) Voss in Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 489 (1894)
- Dahlia pinnata var. gracilis (Ortgies) Voss in Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 489 (1894)
- Dahlia popenovii Saff. in J. Washington Acad. Sci. 9: 369 (1919)
- Dahlia yuarezii Van den Berg in Gard. Chron., n.s., 12: 432 (1879)
- Georgina cervantesii Lag. ex Sweet in Brit. Fl. Gard. 4: t. 22 (1830)
- Georgina coccinea var. crocea Willd. in Hort. Berol. 2: t. 96 (1809)
- Georgina coccinea var. flava Willd. in Hort. Berol. 2: t. 96 (1809)
- Georgina crocata (Sessé ex Lag.) Sweet in Brit. Fl. Gard. 3: t. 282 (1829)
- Georgina frustranea var. crocea (Willd.) DC. in Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 15: 310 (1810)
- Georgina frustranea var. flava (Willd.) DC. in Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 15: 310 (1810)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- GCC in GCC (2011). Global Compositae Checklist. Global Compositae Checklist http://compositae.landcareresearch.co.nz/.
- Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
- Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
- von Raab-Straube, E. (ed.) (2011). Compositae. Euro+Med Plantbase. The Euro+Med PlantBase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/query.asp.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Palmer, E. [494], Durango | K000497476 | isotype | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images