Chuquiraga

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: Barnadesioideae
Genus: Chuquiraga
Species: C. acanthophylla – C. arcuata – C. atacamensis – C. aurea – C. avellanedae – C. calchaquina – C. echegarayi – C. erinacea – C. johnstonii – C. jussieui – C. kuschelii – C. longiflora – C. morenonis – C. oppositifolia – C. parviflora – C. raimondiana – C. rosulata – C. ruscifolia – C. spinosa – C. straminea – C. ulicina – C. weberbaueri
Source(s) of checklist:

Hassler, M. 2018. Chuquiraga. 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 online. Accessed: 2018 Apr. 17. Reference page.

Name

Chuquiraga Juss., 1789

Type species: Chuquiraga jussieui J.F. Gmel.

References

Jussieu, A.L. de, Genera Plantarum 178. 1789.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Chuquiraga. 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 online. Accessed: 2018 Apr. 17. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Chuquiraga. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 17 2018.
The Plant List 2013. Chuquiraga in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Apr. 17.
Tropicos.org 2018. Chuquiraga. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 17 Apr. 2018.

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

Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2014-11-14 at archive.today
Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de. 1789. Genera Plantarum 178 in Latin
(in Spanish) Chuquiraga Juss. Arboles y arbustos de los Andes del Ecuador. eFloras.
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.
Ezcurra, C. (2002). Phylogeny, morphology, and biogeography of Chuquiraga, an Andean-Patagonian genus of Asteraceae-Barnadesioideae. The Botanical Review 68(1), 153-70.
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.
Hoeneisen, M., et al. (2000). Constituents of Chuquiraga atacamensis and C. ulicina. Boletín de la Sociedad Chilena de Química 45(1), 49-52.
Bleiweiss, R. (1982). The northern limit of the hummingbird genus Oreotrochilus in South America. The Auk 99(2), 376-78.