Damnxanthodium

Damnxanthodium is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family, containing the single species Damnxanthodium calvum.[1][2] It is native to northern Mexico.[3][4]

Damnxanthodium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Subfamily:
Asteroideae
Tribe:
Heliantheae
Genus:
Damnxanthodium

Strother
Species:
D. calvum
Binomial name
Damnxanthodium calvum
(Greenm.) Strother
Synonyms[1]
  • Perymenium calvum Greenm.
  • Lasianthaea calva (Greenm.) B.L. Turner

The plant was separated from the genus Perymenium. It was given the new genus name Damnxanthodium because it is difficult to distinguish from similar asters.[5][6]

References
  1. Tropicos, Damnxanthodium Strother
  2. Strother, John Lance. 1987. Systematic Botany 12(1): 41
  3. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  4. Living National Treasures, Checklist of Endemic Vascular Plant Genera, Mexico
  5. Strother, J. L. (1987). Damnxanthodium (Compositae: Heliantheae), a new genus from Mexico. Systematic Botany 12(1), 41-43.
  6. Etymology: Interjections. Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature.


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