Trixis
Trixis californica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Mutisioideae
Tribe: Nassauvieae
Genus: Trixis
P.Browne 1756 not Adans. 1763 (Haloragaceae) nor Sw. 1788 (syn of Clibadium in Asteraceae)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Prionanthes Schrank
  • Bowmania Gardner
  • Cleanthes D.Don
  • Bowmannia Gardner
  • Tenorea Colla
  • Castra Vell.

Trixis is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.[3][4]

Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds[5] due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from τριχος (trixos), the Greek word for 'threefold'.[6][7]

Species[2][8][9]
  • Trixis aggregata Rusby - Bolivia
  • Trixis alata D.Don - Guerrero, México State, Guanajuato
  • Trixis angustifolia DC. - San Luis Potosí
  • Trixis anomala B.L.Turner - Chiapas
  • Trixis antimenorrhoea (Schrank) Mart. ex Baker - South America
  • Trixis bowmanii Baker - Brazil
  • Trixis cacalioides (Kunth) D.Don - Peru
  • Trixis calcicola B.L.Rob. - Guerrero
  • Trixis californica Kellogg – American threefold - USA (CA AZ NM TX), Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas, Nuevo León)
  • Trixis chiapensis C.E.Anderson - Guatemala, Chiapas
  • Trixis erosa Sw. - Costa Rica, West Indies
  • Trixis glaziovii Baker - Paraná, Rio de Janeiro
  • Trixis grandibracteata C.E.Anderson - Guerrero
  • Trixis grisebachii Kuntze - Bolivia, northern Argentina
  • Trixis haenkei Sch.Bip. - Durango, Sinaloa
  • Trixis hassleri Chodat - Paraguay
  • Trixis hyposericea S.Wats. - Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit
  • Trixis inula Crantz – Tropical threefold[5] - USA (TX), Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Colombia, Venezuela
  • Trixis lessingii DC. - Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil
  • Trixis longifolia D.Don - México State, Sinaloa
  • Trixis megalophylla Greenm. - México State, Oaxaca, Puebla
  • Trixis mexicana Lex. - Michoacán
  • Trixis michuacana Lex. - Michoacán, Jalisco, Nayarit
  • Trixis nelsonii Greenm. - Guatemala, Chiapas, Oaxaca
  • Trixis nobilis (Vell.) Katinas - Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina
  • Trixis ophiorhiza Gardner - Bolivia, Brazil
  • Trixis pallida Less. - Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina
  • Trixis parviflora C.E.Anderson - Oaxaca
  • Trixis peruviana Katinas - Peru
  • Trixis praestans (Vell.) Cabrera - Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina
  • Trixis pringlei B.L.Rob. & Greenm. - Guerrero, Oaxaca
  • Trixis proustioides Hieron. - Colombia
  • Trixis pterocaulis B.L.Rob. & Greenm. - Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Sonora
  • Trixis silvatica B.L.Rob. & Greenm. - Oaxaca
  • Trixis spicata Gardner - Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil
  • Trixis thyrsoidea Dusén ex Malme - southern Brazil
  • Trixis vauthieri DC. - eastern Brazil
  • Trixis verbascifolia (Gardner) S.F.Blake - Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro
  • Trixis villosa (Spreng.) Sch.Bip. - Brazil
Formerly included

Numerous species once included in Trixis but now considered better suited to other genera: Acourtia Clibadium Dolichlasium Holocheilus Perezia Riencourtia

References

  1. ↑ Tropicos, search for Trixis
  2. 1 2 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2014-12-28 at archive.today
  3. ↑ Browne, Patrick. 1756. Civil and Natural History of Jamaica in Three Parts page 312
  4. ↑ Browne, Patrick. 1756. Civil and Natural History of Jamaica in Three Parts plate 33, figure 1 on left engraved black + white illustration
  5. 1 2 "Trixis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2010-02-16.
  6. ↑ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. Vol. 4 R-Z. Taylor & Francis US. p. 2737. ISBN 978-0-8493-2678-3.
  7. ↑ Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 75, Threefold, Trixis P. Browne, Civ. Nat. Hist. Jamaica. 312, plate 33, fig. 1. 1756.
  8. ↑ "GRIN Species Records of Trixis". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
  9. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
  • Anderson, C. (1972). "A monograph of the Mexican and Central American species of Trixis (Compositae)". Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. 22 (3): 1–68.
  • Media related to Trixis at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Trixis at Wikispecies


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