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Montanoa hibiscifolia (Montanoa, Tree daisy)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid II > Order: Asterales > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Heliantheae

This species has become naturalised along the east coast of southern Africa and is a declared Category 1 invasive plant in South Africa. 

See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 216.

Publications

  • Funk, V.A. 1982. The systematics of Montanoa (Asteraceae, Heliantheae). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 36: 1-133.