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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Cichorioideae |
| Tribe: | Vernonieae |
| Genus: | Prestelia Sch.Bip. ex Benth. & Hook.f. |
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Eriopus Sch.Bip. ex Baker | |
Prestelia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.
It is native to south eastern Brasil.
Description
It is a perennial or acaulous (having no stem) sub-shrubs with broad rootstock. It has lanulose (fine, wooly hairs), the hairs are stellate-based. It has linear leaves. It has 1 to many inflorescences, which are pedunculate (have flower stalks) and compound heads. The secondard involucre (bract around the flower) is made of about 5 subequal bracts. The individual heads are 5-10 in a cluster, sessile (without a stalk). The involucral bracts about 12 in about 2 series. It has 5-6 florets. The anthers are not tailed and the sweeping hairs are acute. Achenes (dry fruits) are about 8 costate, scattered setulae, glands and idioblasts. It has pappus bristles in 2-3 series, no squamellae.
Taxonomy
The genus name of Prestelia is in honour of Michael August Friedrich Prestel (1809–1880), a German mathematician, meteorologist and cartographer. He was also professor of mathematics and natural science at a school in Emden, and director of the naturalist society in Emden. It was first described and published in Gen. Pl. Vol.2 on page 236 in 1873. The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.
Known species
According to Kew;
- Prestelia eriopus Sch.Bip.
- Prestelia espeletoidea Loeuille, Semir & Pirani
- Prestelia purpurascens (Glaz. ex Oliv.) Loeuille, Semir & Pirani
Prestelia eriopus Sch. Bip. is used in Brazil as a medicinal plant.
References
- ^ "Prestelia Sch.Bip. ex Benth. & Hook.f." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- Joachim W. Kadereit and Charles Jeffrey (Editors) The Families and Genera, Vol.VIII, Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Asterales (2007), p. 162, at Google Books
- Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- "Prestelia GRIN-Global". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- Ribeiro, Victor Pena; Arruda, Caroline; El-Salam, Mohamed Abd; Bastos, Jairo Kenupp (12 April 2018). "Brazilian medicinal plants with corroborated anti-inflammatory activities: a review". Pharm. Biol. 56 (1): 253–268. doi:10.1080/13880209.2018.1454480. PMC 6130656. PMID 29648503.
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| Prestelia | |