''Montanoa'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of flowering plants in the tribe Heliantheae, within the family Asteraceae.
They are thought to be named after Luis Josė Montaña (1755-1820), a leading Mexican physician of his time.
[Cervantes, Vicente in La Llave, Pablo de & Lexarza, Juan José Martinez de. 1825. Novorum Vegetabilium Descriptiones 2: 11]
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; Species[
]
References
Heliantheae
Asteraceae genera
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