Chuquiraga

Genus of flowering plants

Chuquiraga

Chuquiraga jussieui
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Asterales
Family:  | Asteraceae
Subfamily:  | Barnadesioideae
Tribe:  | Barnadesieae
Genus:  | Chuquiraga
Juss.
Synonyms[1]

* Joannesia Pers. 1807, illegitimate homonym not Vell. 1789 (Euphorbiaceae)
* Joannea Willd. ex Spreng.
* Diacantha Lag.
* Johannia Willd.

Chuquiraga is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[2][3][4] The genus is distributed in the Andes from Colombia to Chile, with most species occurring in Patagonia.[3]

These are evergreen shrubs. They have many shapes and sizes of leaves, and two general types of flowers apparently adapted for pollination by hummingbirds and insects.[5] Some species occur at elevations over 4000 meters in the Andes, while others can be found at sea level.[6]

Many are of ecological importance because they are dominant plant species in very dry habitat types, and local animals depend on them.[7] Hummingbirds of the genus Oreotrochilus, the hillstars, rely heavily on these plants, and some species have never been observed on any other plant taxa.[8]

Some species have been used as fuel, as traditional medicines, and as ornamental plants.[7]

Species[1]

* Chuquiraga acanthophylla
* Chuquiraga arcuata
* Chuquiraga atacamensis
* Chuquiraga aurea
* Chuquiraga avellanedae
* Chuquiraga calchaquina
* Chuquiraga doniana
* Chuquiraga echegarayi
* Chuquiraga jussieui
* Chuquiraga kuscheli
* Chuquiraga kuschelii
* Chuquiraga longiflora
* Chuquiraga morenonis
* Chuquiraga oblongifolia
* Chuquiraga oppositifolia
* Chuquiraga parviflora
* Chuquiraga raimondiana
* Chuquiraga rosulata
* Chuquiraga ruscifolia
* Chuquiraga spinosa
* Chuquiraga straminea
* Chuquiraga tomentosa
* Chuquiraga weberbaueri

## References

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1. ^ a b Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist  Archived 2014-11-14 at archive.today
2. ^ Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de. 1789. Genera Plantarum 178 in Latin
3. ^ a b (in Spanish) Chuquiraga Juss. Arboles y arbustos de los Andes del Ecuador. eFloras.
4. ^ Anderberg, A. A.; et al. (2007). "Chuquiraga Juss.". In Kadereit, J. W. and C. Jeffrey (ed.). Flowering plants: Eudicots; Asterales. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 8\. Springer. p. 90\. ISBN 978-3-540-31050-1.
5. ^ Ezcurra, C. (2002). Phylogeny, morphology, and biogeography of Chuquiraga, an Andean-Patagonian genus of Asteraceae-Barnadesioideae. The Botanical Review 68(1), 153-70.
6. ^ Ezcurra, C., et al. (1997). Phylogeny of Chuquiraga sect. Acanthophyllae (Asteraceae-Barnadesioideae), and the evolution of its leaf morphology in relation to climate. Systematic Botany 22(1), 151-63.
7. ^ a b Hoeneisen, M., et al. (2000). Constituents of Chuquiraga atacamensis and C. ulicina. Boletín de la Sociedad Chilena de Química 45(1), 49-52.
8. ^ Bleiweiss, R. (1982). The northern limit of the hummingbird genus Oreotrochilus in South America. The Auk 99(2), 376-78.

* Data related to Chuquiraga at Wikispecies
* Media related to Chuquiraga at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Chuquiraga|

* Wikidata: Q2716230
* Wikispecies: Chuquiraga
* CoL: 3PPM
* EPPO: 1CQUG
* FNA: 107036
* GBIF: 3109501
* GRIN: 2589
* iNaturalist: 184194
* IPNI: 30002127-2
* IRMNG: 1026149
* NCBI: 41547
* Open Tree of Life: 70328
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30002127-2
* Tropicos: 40008794
* WFO: wfo-4000008268
* WoRMS: 1076242

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