''Polyanthina'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe
Eupatorieae within the family
Asteraceae.
[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. 1970. Phytologia 20(3): 213-214]
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Species
The only known species is ''Polyanthina nemorosa'', native to South
South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west.
Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Pro ...
and Central America ( Panama, Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...
, Venezuela, 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 ...
, Ecuador, and Peru).[Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist ]
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References
Eupatorieae
Monotypic Asteraceae genera
Flora of South America
Flora of Central America
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