''Lourteigia'' is a genus of South American

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 tribe Eupatorieae within 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 ...

.D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg.King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest. 1971. Phytologia 21: 28-30
/ref> The genus name of ''Lourteigia'' is in honour of

Alicia Lourteig Alicia Lourteig (1913–2003) was an Argentine and French botanist, world specialist in Oxalidaceae. Personal life and education Alicia Lourteig was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her parents originated from France and Argentina. She studied p ...

(1913–2003), an Argentine and French botanist, who was a world specialist in

Oxalidaceae The Oxalidaceae, or wood sorrel family, are a small family of five genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees, with the great majority of the 570 species in the genus ''Oxalis'' (wood sorrels). Members of this family typically have divid ...

plants. It was first described and published in Phytologia Vol.21 on page 28 in 1971. ; SpeciesFlann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist

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Eupatorieae Flora of South America Asteraceae genera Plants described in 1971 {{Eupatorieae-stub