''Barnadesia'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s in the aster family,

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

. It is native to

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

, where it is distributed from

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

to northern

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

, with most species occurring in the

Andes The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S ...

.''Barnadesia''.
''Arboles y arbustos de los Andes del Ecuador''. eFloras. Common names include ''clavelillo'', ''chivo caspi'', ''espino de gato'', and ''espino santo''. These plants are mainly

shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

s and small

tree In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are ...

s,Hind, D. J. N. (2001)
A new species of ''Barnadesia'' (Compositae: Barnadesieae) from Bolivia.
''Kew Bull'' 56(3), 705-10. the largest exceeding four meters in height.Hind, N. and T. Hall. (2003)
Plate 459. ''Barnadesia arborea'' Compositae.
''Curtis's Botanical Magazine'' 20(1), 25-30. The stems are spiny. The

flower heads A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"; ) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, compos ...

contain pink, red, or purple florets, including 8 to 13 hairy ray florets and usually either one or three disc florets. The ray floret yields a fruit with a plumelike pappus, and the fruit from a disc floret has a more "bristle-like contorted pappus". ; SpeciesFlann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
/ref>Urtubey, E. (1999)
Revisión del género ''Barnadesia'' (Asteraceae: Barnadesioideae, Barnadesieae).
''Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard'' 86(1), 57-117.

References

External links

Preliminary Checklist of the Compositae of Bolivia. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Miquel Bernades i Mainader , Galeria de Metges Catalans
In Catalan Barnadesioideae Asteraceae genera Flora of South America Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Asteraceae-stub