Burkartia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae,Crisci, Jorge Victor. 1976. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 17(3–4): 242 containing the single species Burkartia lanigera.Burkartia. The Plant List. It is endemic to southern Argentina (Provinces of Chubut, Rio Negro, Santa Cruz).Katinas, L., et al. (2007). Panorama de la familia Asteraceae (=Compositae) en la República Argentina. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 42(1-2), 113-29.
This species was formerly in genus Perezia, but it was separated because it has woolly trichomes in the leaf axils, a character not seen in any other Perezia.Simpson, B. B., et al. (2009). Phylogeny and evolution of Perezia (Asteraceae: Mutisieae: Nassauviinae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution 47(5), 431-43. The genus Burkartia was erected for it in 1976.Crisci, J. V. (1976). Burkartia: Nuevo género de Mutisieae (Compositae). Boletin de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 17, 241–46. Molecular phylogenetic analyses in 2009 supported its separation from Perezia.
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