Mutisia

{{Short description|Genus of sunflowers}}

{{Distinguish|text=Matisia, in family Malvaceae sensu lato or Bombacaceae, or Mantisia, in family Zingiberaceae}}

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| image = Mutisia acerosa 6269 (28836799653).jpg

| image_caption = Mutisia acerosa in Valparaíso Region, Chile.

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| taxon = Mutisia

| authority = L.f.

| synonyms_ref = [http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/compositaeweb/Default.aspx?Page=AdvNameSearch Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist ] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20141106174748/http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/Default.aspx?Page=AdvNameSearch |date=2014-11-06 }}

| synonyms = * Mutisia sect. Guariruma (Cass.) Cabrera

  • Guariruma Cass.
  • Aplophyllum Cass.

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Mutisia is a genus of flowering plant in the tribe Mutisieae within the family Asteraceae.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/411090#page/72/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1782. Supplementum Plantarum 57, 373] in Latin[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40023991 Tropicos, Mutisia L.f.] Mutisia has been named after José Celestino Mutis.{{cite web|website= flora de chile|title= Mutisia|url= http://floradechile.cl/genus/mutisia.htm|access-date= 2016-02-21|archive-date= 2019-08-25|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190825132556/http://floradechile.cl/genus/mutisia.htm|url-status= dead}} It comprises about sixty species which can be found along the entire length of the Andes and in southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina.{{cite web|author1=Carmen Ulloa Ulloa |author2=Peter Møller Jørgensen |title= A New Species of Mutisia (Compositae-Mutisieae) from Ecuador|url= http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/ecuador/mutisia/welcome.shtml|access-date= 2016-02-22}}

Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of December 2022:{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30017136-2 |title=Mutisia L.f. |date=2022 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date=1 December 2022}}

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; formerly included

see Gongylolepis

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