Asteraceae

Helichrysum Mill.

First published in Gard. Dict. Abr., ed. 4.: [462] (1754)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Europe to Siberia and Sri Lanka, Africa, Australia to New Caledonia and New Zealand.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Angola, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Central European Russia, Chad, Chatham Is., Comoros, Congo, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, DR Congo, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Oman, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Queensland, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sicilia, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South European Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Victoria, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

California, Dominican Republic, Great Britain, Haiti, Hawaii, Ireland

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • corr. Pers. Syn. 2: 414 (1807). Nom. cons.

Flora of Iraq

  • Bayer et al. in Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 8: 267 [2006] (2007)
  • Georgiadou, E. (1982). The systematics of the genus Helichrysum Miller in the countries bordering the Mediterranean”. Unpublished thesis, Department of Botany, University of Reading.
  • J. R. Edmondson (2019). Flora of Iraq, Volume 6: Compositae. Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. & Hind, D. J. N. (Eds). Kew Publishing
  • Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 4 (1754) as ‘Elichrysum’ emend. Pers., Syn. Pl. [Persoon] 2: 414 (1807)

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
  • Mesfin & Reilly in Hind, Jeffrey & Pope (eds.), Advances in Compositae Systematics: 379–450 (1995).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Anderb. in Opera Bot. 104: 141 (1991)
  • Gard. Dict. abr. ed. 4: 28 (1754), as “ Elichrysum ”, orth. rej .; corr. Pers., nom. et orth. conserv .
  • Hilliard, F.S.A. 33, 7 (2): 61 (1983)
  • Humbert, Fl. Madag. 189: 389 (1962)
  • in K. Bremer, Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 358 (1994)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora of Iraq

    • Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. (Eds). (2013-2019). Flora of Iraq, Volumes 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0. Kew Publishing
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. 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 2026. 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

  • Plants and People Africa

    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/
    • © Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/