Zandera is a genus of annual plants in the family Asteraceae.[1]

Zandera
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Millerieae
Subtribe: Milleriinae
Genus: Zandera
Dorothea Louise Schulz

It is native to Mexico.[2][3]

Species

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There are 3 species accepted by Plants of the World Online;[1]

The genus name of Zandera is in honour of Robert Zander (1892–1969), a German botanist and horticulturist in Berlin.[4] It was first described and published in Haussknechtia, Mitt. Thüring. Bot. Ges. Vol.4 on page 32 in 1988.[1]

It is noted as a possible synonym of Sigesbeckia L. by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Zandera D.L.Schulz | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  2. ^ Villaseñor, José Luis (September 2016). "Taxonomy and systematics Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 87 (3): 559–902. doi:10.1016/j.rmb.2016.06.017.
  3. ^ Villaseñor, Jose Luis; Ibarra, Guillermo; Ocaña, Daniel (October 1998). "Strategies for the Conservation of Asteraceae in Mexico". Conservation Biology. 12 (5): 1066–1075. Bibcode:1998ConBi..12.1066V. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.97171.x.
  4. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Genus Zandera D. L. Schulz". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 16 January 2022.