Vickianthus

Vickianthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It includes ten species native to Mexico.^[1]

Vickianthus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Vernonioideae
Tribe:	Vernonieae
Genus:	Vickianthus H.Rob.

The species now included in Vickianthus were formerly placed in the genera Vernonia and Vernonanthura. In 2023 Harold E. Robinson et al. organized them into a new genus based in a comprehensive phylogenetic study of the tribe Vernonieae. The genus is named after the botanist, curator, and plant collector Vicki Funk (1947–2019).^[2]

Species

Ten species are accepted.^[1]

• Vickianthus alamanii (DC.) H.Rob.
• Vickianthus bealliae (McVaugh) H.Rob.
• Vickianthus cronquistii (S.B.Jones) H.Rob.
• Vickianthus hintoniorum (B.L.Turner) H.Rob.
• Vickianthus inuloides (DC.) H.Rob.
• Vickianthus karvinskianus (DC.) H.Rob.
• Vickianthus liatroides (DC.) H.Rob.
• Vickianthus oaxacanus (Sch.Bip. ex Klatt) H.Rob.
• Vickianthus serratuloides (Kunth) H.Rob.
• Vickianthus vernonioides (A.Gray) H.Rob.