Bahia is a small genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The common name is also bahia. It is named in honor of the Spanish botanist Juan Francisco Bahí (1775–1841).[2]
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| Bahia ambrosioides | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
| Tribe: | Bahieae |
| Genus: | Bahia Lag. 1816 not Nutt. 1841[1] |
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The genus has a disjunct distribution in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile, and is found in dry areas.[3]
- Species[4]
- Bahia absinthifolia – hairyseed bahia - USA (Arizona Utah New Mexico Texas); Mexico (Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Durango, Aguascalientes)
- Bahia ambrosioides - Chile incl. Juan Fernández Islands
- Bahia aristata - Mexico
- Bahia autumnalis - Nuevo León
- Bahia bigelovii – Bigelow's bahia - western Texas, Coahuila
- Bahia biternata – slim-lobe bahia - Arizona, New Mexico, Chihuahua
- Bahia depauperata - Guatemala
- Bahia glandulosa - Chihuahua, Durango
- Bahia pedata – blunt-scale bahia - Texas, New Mexico, Durango
- Bahia pringlei - Coahuila, Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz
- Bahia schaffneri - Nuevo León, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas
- Bahia xylopoda - Hidalgo, Jalisco, Puebla, San Luis Potosí
References
edit- ^ Triopicos, search for Bahia
- ^ Genaust, Helmut (1976). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen ISBN 3-7643-0755-2
- ^ Ellison, W.L. 1964. A systematic study of the genus Bahia (Compositae). Rhodora 66: 67-86, 178-311.
- ^ The Plant List search for Bahia
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