''Haroldia'' 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 belonging to the 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 a single species, ''Haroldia mendocina''. Its native range is north-western Argentina. Both the genus and the species were

circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius. Not every polyg ...

by José M. Bonifacino in Smithsonian Contr. Bot. vol.92 on page 50 in 2009. The genus name of ''Haroldia'' is in honour of

Harold Ernest Robinson Harold Ernest Robinson (May 22, 1932 – December 17, 2020) was an American botanist and entomologist. Career Robinson's specialty was the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and the bryophytes. He has named or described over 2,800 new species and s ...

(1932–2020), who was an American botanist and entomologist.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q55829769, from2=Q92719837 Astereae Flora of Northeast Argentina