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Andicolea
''Andicolea'', formerly known as ''Loricaria'', is a genus of South American flowering plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae 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 ....Luteyn, J. L. 1999. Páramos, a checklist of plant diversity, geographical distribution, and botanical literature. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 84: viii–xv, 1–278 Taxonomy The genus was first established as ''Loricaria'' by Hugh Weddell in 1855. However, a 2021 review of the nomenclatural history of the name found that Jean Vincent Lamouroux had already used the name ''Loricaria'' to describe a genus of brown algae split off from '' Fucus'' in 1813. Because that name was referenced several times by Lamouroux and other botanists in the years following its publicati ...
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Andicolea Unduaviensis
''Andicolea'', formerly known as ''Loricaria'', is a genus of South American flowering plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae within the family Asteraceae.Luteyn, J. L. 1999. Páramos, a checklist of plant diversity, geographical distribution, and botanical literature. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 84: viii–xv, 1–278 Taxonomy The genus was first established as ''Loricaria'' by Hugh Weddell in 1855. However, a 2021 review of the nomenclatural history of the name found that Jean Vincent Lamouroux had already used the name ''Loricaria'' to describe a genus of brown algae split off from '' Fucus'' in 1813. Because that name was referenced several times by Lamouroux and other botanists in the years following its publication, it is considered the valid name. Thus, the name ''Andicolea'' was applied to the Asteraceae genus in reference to its Andean The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a ...
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