Bebbia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Campanulids
Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Asteraceae
Subfamilia: Asteroideae
Tribus: Millerieae
Subtribus: Dyscritothamninae
Genus: Bebbia
Species: B. juncea
Name

Bebbia Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 179. (1885)

monotypic taxon

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Carphephorus sect. Kuhnioides A.Gray Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 8: 632. (1873)

References

Edward Lee Greene 1885. Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences 1: 179.
Hassler, M. 2018. Bebbia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jan. 29. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Bebbia. Published online. Accessed: Jan. 29 2018.
Tropicos.org 2018. Bebbia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jan. 29.

Vernacular names
English: sweetbush

Bebbia, common name sweetbush, is a genus of aromatic shrubs in the daisy family.[1][2]

It is native to the southwestern United States (California, Nevada, Arizona, southwestern Utah, southwestern New Mexico, and extreme western Texas (El Paso County)) and northern Mexico (Sonora, Baja California, Baja California Sur).[3] It bears plentiful yellow discoid flowers.[4][5]

Species

Some authors combine the entire genus into one species, B. juncea.[6] The Global Compositae Checklist [7] and The Plant List[8] accept two species, with B. juncea divided into two varieties:

Bebbia atriplicifolia (A.Gray) Greene - Baja California Sur
Bebbia juncea (Benth.) Greene
Bebbia juncea var. juncea
Bebbia juncea var. aspera (Benth.) Greene

References

Greene, Edward Lee. 1885. Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences 1(4A): 179–181 in English
Tropicos, Bebbia Greene
Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map
Whalen, M. 1977. Taxonomy of Bebbia (Compositae: Heliantheae). Madroño 24: 112–123.
Flora of North America, Bebbia Greene
Johnston, Ivan Murray. 1924. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 12:1197
Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
The Plant List, search for Bebbia