Leiboldia

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Leiboldia is a genus of flowering plants belonging the family Asteraceae.{{cite web |title=Leiboldia Schltdl. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:9706-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=15 October 2021 |language=en |archive-date=22 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022093346/http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:9706-1 |url-status=live }} It is also in the tribe Vernonieae.{{cite journal |last1=Redonda-Martínez |first1=Rosario |last2=Villaseñor |first2=José Luis |title=Stramentopappus congestiflorus (Asteraceae: Vernonieae: Leiboldiinae) a new species from Oaxaca, Mexico |journal=Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad |date=March 2014 |volume=85 |issue=1 |pages=1–8|doi=10.7550/rmb.36354 |doi-access=free }}

It is native to Mexico.

The genus name of Leiboldia is in honour of Friedrich Ernst Leibold (1804–1864), a German gardener and botanical collector.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition | trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 | format=pdf | language=German | location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | access-date=1 January 2021 | archive-date=2 April 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402092635/https://www.bgbm.org/de/node/3642 | url-status=live }}

It was first described and published in Linnaea Vol.19 on page 742 in 1847.