Asteraceae

Synedrella Gaertn.

First published in Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 456 (1791), nom. cons.
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Mexico to Tropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, Chagos Archipelago, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Fiji, Florida, Gabon, Gilbert Is., Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hawaii, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Laccadive Is., Laos, Line Is., Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Queensland, Réunion, Samoa, Senegal, Seychelles, Society Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tuvalu, Vietnam, Washington, Zambia, Zaïre

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

  • Ucacea Cass. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 27: 9 (1823), nom. superfl.
  • Ucacou Adans. in Fam. Pl. 2: 131 (1763), nom. rej.

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 2: 383.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Fruct. 2: 456, t. 171 (1791), nom. cons .
  • Turner in Phytologia 76: 39–51 (1994)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

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

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 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 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0