Asteraceae
Koanophyllon

Koanophyllon villosum (Sw.) R.M.King & H.Rob.

First published in Phytologia 32: 265 (1975)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Florida to Caribbean. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Morphology General Habit
A bushy shrub to 2 m tall, more or less velvety-pubescent throughout; leaves petiolate, deltate-ovate, mostly 2–7 cm long, blunt to acute at the apex, truncate at the base, the margins entire or obscurely toothed
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Heads numerous in dense corymbs; phyllaries 2–2.5 mm long. Florets whitish, 2.5–3 mm long, with glandular tube
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Achenes sparsely puberulous, ca. 1.5 mm long.
Distribution
Cayman Islands. Florida and sporadically throughout the West Indies, including the Swan Islands.
Ecology
Common in clearings and in thickets on limestone.
[Cayman]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0