Hughesia is a genus of flowering plants in 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. 1980. Phytologia 47: 252-256 formal description in Latin, commentary in English, 3 full-page black + white photos of herbarium specimensTropicos, Hughesia R.M. King & H. Rob There is only one known species, Hughesia reginae, native to the Junín Region of Peru.León, B., J. Roque, C. Ulloa Ulloa, N. C. A. Pitman, P. M. Jørgensen & A. Cano E. 2006 . El Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Perú. Revista Peruana de Biologia 13(núm. 2 especial): 1s–971s. This species is named after the botanical illustrator, Regina Olson Hughes, in honor of her contributions to the U.S Department of Agriculture.
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