Family:
Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

Heterosperma Cav.

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Arizona to Texas and Nicaragua, Hispaniola, NW. Venezuela to N. Argentina.

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Bolivia, Chile North, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Texas, Venezuela

Heterosperma Cav. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Icon. 3: 34 (1795)

Accepted by

  • Lizarazu, M.A. & Freire, S.E. (2019). A taxonomic revision of Heterosperma (Asteraceae: Ceoreopsideae) Annals from the Missouri Botanical Garden 104: 633-663. MBG press.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0