Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Baccharis steetzii
achira, achira de Galápagos
Freely branching shrub glabrous, leaves numerous short-petiolate with the blade elliptic subtriplinerved, corymbiform clusters terminating on short axillary shoots and staminate heads unknown.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Baccharis
Species
steetzii
Taxon category: Accepted
Taxon origin: Endemic
Distribution: Species known from five populations on four islands: Isabela (on the volcanoes Alcedo and Sierra negra), Floreana, Santa Cruz and San Cristóbal. It is probably diminished on all of these islands.
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