genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of shrubs in 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 ...
, native to
North
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and
South America
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including the
West Indies
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Trixis aggregata
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' Rusby - Bolivia
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Trixis alata
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
Trixis angustifolia
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' DC. - San Luis Potosí
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Trixis anomala
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' B.L.Turner - Chiapas
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Trixis antimenorrhoea
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' (Schrank) Mart. ex Baker - South America
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Trixis bowmanii
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' Baker - Brazil
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Trixis cacalioides
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
Trixis californica
''Trixis californica '', the American threefold or American trixis, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southwestern United States in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and in Mexico in the stat ...
'' Kellogg – American threefold - USA (CA AZ NM TX), Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas, Nuevo León)
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Trixis chiapensis
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' C.E.Anderson - Guatemala, Chiapas
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Trixis erosa
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' Sw. - Costa Rica, West Indies
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Trixis glaziovii
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
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Trixis grandibracteata
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' C.E.Anderson - Guerrero
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Trixis grisebachii
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' Kuntze - Bolivia, northern Argentina
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Trixis haenkei
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' Sch.Bip. - Durango, Sinaloa
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Trixis hassleri
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' Chodat - Paraguay
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Trixis hyposericea
''Trixis'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America including the West Indies.
Members of the genus are commonly known as threefolds due to the outer lip of the corolla. The generic name is derived from ...
'' S.Wats. - Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit
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Trixis inula
''Trixis inula,'' the tropical threefold, is a plant species native to Texas, Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the West Indies. It is found on open, sandy sites such as roadsides, thorn scrub, thickets, etc.
''Trixis inula'' ...
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literally ...
,
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
* '' Trixis villosa'' (Spreng.) Sch.Bip. - Brazil
; Formerly included
Numerous species once included in ''Trixis'' but now considered better suited to other genera: ''
Acourtia
''Acourtia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae and was first described as a genus in 1830. It includes ''desertpeonies'', such as ''Acourtia nana'' (dwarf desertpeony) and ''Acourtia runcinata'' (featherleaf desertpeony).
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