- Source: Vittadinia
Vittadinia is a genus of Australian and New Zealand plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.
Taxonomy
The genus Vittadinia is attributed to the French botanist Achille Richard in 1832. He described a species collected in New Zealand as Vittadinia australis, noting that although it had similarities to the genus Aster, there were sufficient differences to distinguish it. Two he considered significant were that Vittadinia has only two rows of involucral bracts and that its anthers are free and bent into a shape resembling a bayonet.
Although species of Vittadinia were described from Hawaii by Asa Gray, and are accepted by some sources, these are now considered to belong to the genus Tetramolopium by the online Flora of the Hawaiian Islands, so that Vittadinia does not occur in Hawaii.
= Species
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Vittadinia arida N.T.Burb. – WA NT Qld SA NSW
Vittadinia australasica (Turcz.) N.T.Burb. – sticky New Holland daisy – Qld NSW Vic SA NT WA Tas
Vittadinia australis A.Rich. – NZ; naturalised in India
Vittadinia bicolor N.T.Burb. – Qld
Vittadinia blackii N.T.Burb. – western New Holland daisy – NSW Vic SA WA
Vittadinia burbidgeae A.M.Gray & Rozefelds – Tas
Vittadinia cervicularis N.T.Burb. – annual New Holland daisy – Qld NSW Vic SA NT WA
Vittadinia condyloides N.T.Burb. – club-hair New Holland daisy – NSW Vic SA WA
Vittadinia constricta N.T.Burb. – Qld
Vittadinia cuneata DC. – fuzweed, fuzzy New Holland daisy – Qld NSW Vic SA NT WA Tas
Vittadinia decora N.T.Burb. – Qld
Vittadinia diffusa N.T.Burb. – Qld
Vittadinia dissecta (Benth.) N.T.Burb. – dissected New Holland daisy – Qld NSW Vic SA NT WA Tas
Vittadinia eremaea N.T.Burb. – Qld NSW Vic SA NT WA
Vittadinia gracilis (Hook.f.) N.T.Burb. – woolly New Holland daisy – Qld NSW Vic SA NT WA Tas
Vittadinia hispidula F.Muell. ex A.Gray – WA NT QldNSW
Vittadinia humerata N.T.Burb. – WA
Vittadinia megacephala (Benth.) J.M.Black – giant New Holland daisy – SA Vic
Vittadinia muelleri N.T.Burb. – nrrow-leaf New Holland daisy – Qld NSW V Tas
Vittadinia nullarborensis N.T.Burb. – WA SA
Vittadinia obovata N.T.Burb. – WA NT Qld SA
Vittadinia pterochaeta (F.Muell. ex Benth.) J.M.Black – winged New Holland daisy, rough fuzzweed – Qld NSW Vic SA NT
Vittadinia pustulata N.T.Burb. – Qld NSW Vic SA NT WA
Vittadinia scabra DC. – Qld NT NSW
Vittadinia spechtii N.T.Burb. – NT WA
Vittadinia sulcata N.T.Burb. – furrowed New Holland daisy – NSW Qld NT Vic SA WA
Vittadinia tenuissima (Benth.) J.M.Black – Western New Holland daisy, delicate New Holland daisy – NSW Qld Vic
Vittadinia triloba (Gaudich.) DC. – NZ, NSW
Vittadinia virgata N.T.Burb. – NT WA
formerly included
Species formerly included in the genus Vittadinia, but now placed in Baccharis, Camptacra, Microgyne, Minuria and Tetramolopium, include:
Vittadinia alinae F.Muell. – Tetramolopium alinae
Vittadinia brachycomoides (F.Muell.) Benth. – Camptacra brachycomoides
Vittadinia chamissonis A.Gray – Tetramolopium lepidotum
Vittadinia disticha S.Moore – Tetramolopium distichum
Vittadinia macra F.Muell. – Tetramolopium macrum
Vittadinia macrorhiza (DC.) A.Gray – Minuria macrorhiza
Vittadinia multifida Griseb. – Baccharis ulicina
Vittadinia remyi A.Gray = Tetramolopium remyi
Vittadinia trifurcata (Less.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Griseb. – Microgyne trifurcata