Pluchea Cass.
Genus composed of about 56 species distributed mainly through tropical and subtropical areas of almost the entire world. In North Africa it is represented by 2 species, both with tropical ecology. P. ovalis, that reaches the S of Morocco to the N, and P. dioscoridis that reaches almost to the Mediterranean in Egypt to the NE.
King-Jones, S. 2001. Revision of Pluchea Cass. (Compositae, Plucheeae) in the Old World. Englera 23: 1-136.
Oliver, X., Casals, P., Fanlo, E. & García Pausas, J. 2007. Pluchea ovalis (Pers.) DC., nueva cita en el Valle del Sous (Marruecos). Acta Bot. Malacitana 32: 301-304.
Padrón-Mederos, M.A., Guma, I.R. Santos-Guerra, A. & Reyes-Betancort, J.A. 2009. Apuntes florísticos y taxonómicos para la flora de las Islas Canarias. Acta Botanica Malacitana 34: 242-251.
Shaltout, K.H. & Slima, D.F. 2007. The biology of Egyptian woody perennials. 3. Pluchea dioscoridis (L.) DC. Assiut University Bulletin of Environmental Research, 10: 85-103.
Veloove, F. & Reyes-Betancort, J.A. 2011. Additions to the flora of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). Collectanea Botanica 30 (2011): 63-78
Key to species
1 Leaves sessile, auriculate, ± decurrent Pluchea ovalis
1 Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, gradually narrowed at the base, sometimes auriculate, not decurrent Pluchea dioscoridis
Updated by: B. Valdés.