Topic summary
Trichocline
Trichocline is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Mutisieae within the family Asteraceae. It includes twenty-three species native South America, which range from Bolivia and eastern Brazil to southern Argentina. The Australian species Trichocline spathulata was formerly included; it is now placed in the monotypic genus Amblysperma as A. spathulata.
Its closest relatives are Chaptalia, Gerbera, Leibnitzia, Perdicium, and Oreoseris. Together they form the Gerbera complex in the tribe Mutisieae.