Capelio

Capelio
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Capelio
Synonyms[1]

Alciope DC.

Capelio is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae first described as a genus in 1836 with the name Alciope.[2] It was renamed Capelio in 2002 after it was determined that the name Alciope was not legitimately published according to international nomenclatural rules.[3][4]

The entire genus is endemic to Cape Province in South Africa.[5]

species[6]
  1. Capelio caledonica B.Nord.
  2. Capelio tabularis (Thunb.) B.Nord.
  3. Capelio tomentosa (Burm.f.) B.Nord.

References

  1. ↑ Tropicos, Capelio B. Nord.
  2. ↑ Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1836. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 209-210 in Latin
  3. ↑ International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
  4. ↑ Nordenstam, B. 2002. Capelio B. Nord., a new name for a South African genus of the Senecioneae and the description of a new species. Compositae Newsletter 38: 71–75.
  5. ↑ Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).
  6. ↑ The Plant List, search for Capelio

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