- Malacothrix (plant)
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Malacothrix 
Malacothrix saxatilis Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Tribe: Cichorieae Genus: Malacothrix
DC.Species 21 - see text.
Malacothrix is a genus of flowering plants related to daisies. They are known generally as desert dandelions or desertdandelions. Most are found in North America and a few have been introduced to South America.[1] They have daisy-like or somewhat bell-shaped flowers, usually in shades of yellow.
Malacothrix as defined here (containing about 22 species) does not seem to be monophyletic. Some of its species are related to Atrichoseris, whereas a second group is more closely related to Anisocoma and Calycoseris.[2]
Selected species:
- Malacothrix californica - California desertdandelion
- Malacothrix clevelandii - Cleveland's desertdandelion
- Malacothrix coulteri - snake's head
- Malacothrix fendleri - Fendler's desertdandelion
- Malacothrix floccifera - woolly desertdandelion
- Malacothrix foliosa - leafy desertdandelion
- Malacothrix glabrata - smooth desertdandelion
- Malacothrix incana - dunedelion
- Malacothrix indecora - Santa Cruz Island desertdandelion
- Malacothrix insularis - island desertdandelion
- Malacothrix junakii - Junak's desertdandelion
- Malacothrix phaeocarpa - Davis' desertdandelion
- Malacothrix polycephala - manyhead desertdandelion
- Malacothrix saxatilis - cliff desertdandelion
- Malacothrix similis - twin desertdandelion
- Malacothrix sonchoides - sowthistle desertdandelion
- Malacothrix sonorae - Sonoran desertdandelion
- Malacothrix squalida - Santa Cruz desertdandelion
- Malacothrix stebbinsii - Stebbins' desertdandelion
- Malacothrix torreyi - Torrey's desertdandelion
Malacothrix glabrata, Desert dandelion
References
- ^ "64. Malacothrix de Candolle". Flora of North America. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=119518.
- ^ Joongku Lee, Bruce G. Baldwin and L. D. Gottlieb (Jul–Sep 2003)). "Phylogenetic Relationships among the Primarily North American Genera of Cichorieae (Compositae) Based on Analysis of 18S-26S Nuclear rDNA ITS and ETS Sequences". Systematic Botany (American Society of Plant Taxonomists) 28 (3): 616–626. JSTOR 25063901
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