''Bethencourtia'' 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 daisy 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 contains three species of plants

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

. Species:Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
/ref>''Bethencourtia''.
Euro+Med PlantBase. 2006. *'' Bethencourtia hermosae'' *'' Bethencourtia palmensis'' *'' Bethencourtia rupicola''

References

Senecioneae Asteraceae genera Endemic flora of the Canary Islands Taxa named by Jacques Denys Choisy {{Senecioneae-stub