Robinsonia (plant)
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Robinsonia
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Robinsonia gayana |
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Robinsonia is a genus of plants in the groundseltribe within the sunflower family.[2][3]
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All the species are endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of the Republic of Chile.[1] The genus is named for the fictional character Robinson Crusoe, purportedly shipwrecked in this chain of islands.[4]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
- ↑ Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1833. Archives de Botanique 2: 333
- ↑ Tropicos, Robinsonia DC.
- ↑ Daniel Defoe. 1719. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. London: W. Taylor
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