''Dasyphyllum'' 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 t ...

s 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 ...

. It is distributed in

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sou ...

, with several species in southeastern

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

.''Dasyphyllum''.
Arboles y arbustos de los Andes del Ecuador. eFloras. Species include:

Etymology of genus name

The genus name Dasyphyllum is a compound of the

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

elements δασύς ( ''dasus'' ) 'hairy' and φύλλον ( ''phyllon'' ) 'leaf', thus meaning "plant with hairy leaves".Cunliffe, Richard John, ''A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect'', pub. Blackie and Son Ltd. 1924.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1988351 Asteraceae genera Flora of South America Taxonomy articles created by Polbot