Lachanodes is a genus of flowering plants in the groundsel tribe of the sunflower family. It contains a single species, Lachanodes arborea, the she cabbage tree, a small tree endemic of the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is now extinct in the wild.
Taxonomy The species was first described as Mikania arborea by William Roxburgh in 1816. In 1978 Bertil Nordenstam placed the species in genus Lachanodes. Lachanodes was described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1833. The type species was Lachanodes prenanthiflora, which is now considered a synonym of L. arborea.
See also Flora of Saint Helena He cabbage tree
References
Other sources Cronk, Q.C.B. (1995) The endemic Flora of St Helena. Anthony Nelson Ltd., Oswestry.
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