Barnadesia is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae.Linnaeus, Carl von, Jr. 1782. Supplementum Plantarum 55, 348 in LatinTropicos, Barnadesia Mutis ex L. f. It is native to South America, where it is distributed from Colombia to northern Argentina, with most species occurring in the Andes. Barnadesia. Arboles y arbustos de los Andes del Ecuador. eFloras. Common names include clavelillo, chivo caspi, espino de gato, and espino santo.
These plants are mainly shrubs and small trees,Hind, D. J. N. (2001). A new species of Barnadesia (Compositae: Barnadesieae) from Bolivia. Kew Bull 56(3), 705-10. the largest exceeding four meters in height.Hind, N. and T. Hall. (2003). Curtis's Botanical Magazine 20(1), 25-30. The stems are spiny. The flower heads contain pink, red, or purple florets, including 8 to 13 hairy ray florets and usually either one or three disc florets. The ray floret yields a fruit with a plumelike pappus, and the fruit from a disc floret has a more "bristle-like contorted pappus".
SpeciesBarnadesia species records. Bolivia Checklist. eFloras.Urtubey, E. (1999). Revisión del género Barnadesia (Asteraceae: Barnadesioideae, Barnadesieae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard 86(1), 57-117.
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Barnadesia. Preliminary Checklist of the Compositae of Bolivia. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Miquel Bernades i Mainader Galeria de Metges Catalans In Catalan