Boopis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Calyceraceae, which includes eight species native to Chile and western Argentina.
The genus has been subject to several major revisions. In 2016 the genus as it was then circumscribed was found to be highly polyphyletic, and several species were moved to other genera.Silvia S. Denham, Nicolás F. Brignone, Leigh A. Johnson, Raúl E. Pozner (2019) Using integrative taxonomy and multispecies coalescent models for phylogeny reconstruction and species delimitation within the “Nastanthus–Gamocarpha” clade (Calyceraceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 130, 2019, Pages 211-226, ISSN 1055-7903, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.015. In 2024 Pozner et al. placed Boopis anthemoides in the new monotypic genus Xiphodesma, and determined that Boopis was the correct name for the "pilose group" of Calyceraceae species which Pozner et al. had previously placed in Leucocera.Raúl Pozner, Gea Zijlstra, Leigh A. Johnson, and Pablo Moroni "Nomenclatural Corrections in Calyceraceae," Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature 32(1), 135-140, (15 August 2024). https://doi.org/10.3417/2024909
Species Eight species are currently accepted: Boopis breviscapa Phil. Boopis eryngioides Boopis horrida Boopis leucanthema Boopis pterocalyx Boopis pusilla Boopis sessiliflora Boopis sympaganthera
Formerly placed here Xiphodesma anthemoides (as Boopis anthemoides Juss.)
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