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.Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1817. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1817: 13 in FrenchTropicos, Trichocline Cass. 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.
Species 23 species are accepted. Trichocline aurea (D.Don) Reiche – Chile Trichocline auriculata (Wedd.) Hieron. – Argentina, Bolivia Trichocline boecheri Cabrera – Argentina Trichocline catharinensis Cabrera – Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina Trichocline caulescens Phil. – Chile Trichocline cineraria (D.Don) Hook. & Arn. – Chile, Argentina Trichocline cisplatina – Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay Trichocline crispa Cabrera – Chile Trichocline dealbata (Hook. & Arn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Griseb. – Chile, Argentina Trichocline deserticola Zardini – Chile Trichocline exscapa Griseb. – Argentina Trichocline heterophylla (Spreng.) Less. – Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay Trichocline humilis Less. - Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay Trichocline incana (Lam.) Cass. – Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul Trichocline linearifolia Malme – Paraná Trichocline macrocephala Less. – Misiones, Paraná, Santa Catarina Trichocline macrorhiza Cabrera – Jujuy Trichocline maxima Less. – Brazil, Uruguay Trichocline minuana – Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay Trichocline plicata Hook. & Arn. – Argentina Trichocline reptans (Wedd.) Hieron. – Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia Trichocline sinuata (D.Don) Cabrera – Argentina Trichocline speciosa Less. – Paraná, Argentina, Paraguay
Formerly included see Actinoseris, Amblysperma, Chaptalia, Criscia Richterago, and Unxia
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