Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Lecocarpus leptolobus
The herbage wholly spreading-hispidulous, freely branched upward, the lower of stem more woody , leaf blades more or less elliptic and fruits desenly glandular and somewhat hispidulous.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Lecocarpus
Species
leptolobus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Acanthospermum leptolobum S.F. Blake
Taxon origin: Endemic
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Eliasson, U. (1971) Studies in Galápagos Plants. X the Genus Lecocarpus. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 65(3): 246-277.
- Cronquist, A. (1970) New Combinations in the Compositae of the Galápagos Islands. Madroño 20(5): 255-256.
- Atkinson, R. Jaramillo, P., Simbaña, W., Guézou, A. & Coronel, V. (2008) Advances in the conservation of threatened plant species of Galápagos. Galápagos Report, 97-102 (Eds L. Cayot and V. Toral). Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador.
- Tye, A. Jaramillo, P. (2022) Rediscovery of the Galapagos endemic Lecocarpus leptolobus (Asteraceae), its morphology, distribution and taxonomy relative to its congeners Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, boac026, https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boac026