Galinsoga

Galinsoga is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[2][4][5] It is native to North and South America and the West Indies, and naturalized in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.[6][7]

"Galinsogea" redirects here. For Galinsogea Kunth, see Tridax.
"Viborgia" redirects here. For the legume genus, see Wiborgia.

Quickweed
Galinsoga quadriradiata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Millerieae
Genus: Galinsoga
Ruiz & Pav.
Type species
Galinsoga parviflora[1][2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Gallinsoga St.Hil.
  • Stenocarpha S.F.Blake
  • Wiborgia Roth
  • Stematella Wedd. ex Sch.Bip.
  • Galinsogaea Himpel
  • Viborgia Spreng.
  • Galinsogea Willd.
  • Stemmatella Wedd. ex Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Vigolina Poir.
  • Adventina Raf.
  • Galinsoja Roth
  • Vargasia DC.

The name Galinsoga was dedicated to Ignacio Mariano Martinez de Galinsoga, who founded the Spanish Real Academia Nacional de Medicina and was director of the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid.[8]

Species[3]

References
  1. lectotype designated by Roth, Catal. Bot. 3: 78-79 (1806)
  2. Tropicos, Galinsoga Ruiz & Pav.
  3. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  4. Ruiz López, Hipólito & Pavón, José Antonio. 1794. Florae Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus 110, plate 24
  5. Ruiz López, Hipólito & Pavón, José Antonio. 1798. Systema vegetabilium florae Peruvianae et Chilensis :characteres prodromi genericos differentias 197-199 in Latin
  6. Flora of North America, Quickweed , Galinsoga Ruiz & Pavón, Fl. Peruv. Prodr. 110, plate 24. 1794.
  7. Flora of China, Vol. 20-21 Page 864 牛膝菊属 niu xi ju shu Galinsoga Ruiz & Pavon, Fl. Peruv. Prodr. 110. 1794.
  8. (in Spanish) Martinez de Galinsoga, Genealoga Familia Pérez Martinez


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