Electranthera

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Electranthera is a genus of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Mexico to Honduras. The genus was first established in 1836, but under the illegitimate name Electra. A replacement name was published in 2015.

Taxonomy

The genus was first described in 1836 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, using the name Electra. However, this name had already been published for a plant genus in 1813, so de Candolle's name was illegitimate. In 2014, de Candolle's genus, whose species are shrubby and pistillate-rayed, was resurrected from

synonymy with typically herbaceous and sterile-rayed genus Coreopsis. However, at the time the authors did not notice that de Candolle's name was illegitimate. In 2015, the legitimate replacement name Electranthera was published.

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{{As of|2024|March}}, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:

Electranthera cuneifolia (Greenm.) Mesfin, D.J.Crawford & Pruski
Electranthera mutica (DC.) Mesfin, D.J.Crawford & Pruski
Electranthera parvifolia (S.F.Blake) Mesfin, D.J.Crawford & Pruski

References

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{{citation |title=Electra D.C. |work=The International Plant Names Index |url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=8757-1 |access-date=2024-05-13}}

{{citation |title=Electranthera Mesfin, D.J.Crawford & Pruski |work=The International Plant Names Index |url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=60472675-2 |access-date=2024-05-13}}

{{citation |title=Electranthera Mesfin, D.J.Crawford & Pruski |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60472675-2 |access-date=2024-05-13}}

{{Citation |last1=Pruski |first1=J.F. |last2=Tadesse |first2=Mesfin |last3=Crawford |first3=D.J. |date=2015 |title=Studies of Neotropical Compositae–XI. The new generic name Electranthera (Coreopsideae) |journal=Phytoneuron |volume=2015-68 |pages=1–17 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286447627 |access-date=2024-05-13 |name-list-style=amp }}

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Category:Coreopsideae

Category:Asteraceae genera