Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Scalesia aspera
lechoso
Twigs of the season rough-puberulent with coarse, leaves alternate and serrate , heads solitary at branch upper and many-flowered.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Scalesia
Species
aspera
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Scalesia aspera var. aspera, S. aspera var. subintegerrima Harling, fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010)
Origin: Endemic
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- Jaramillo, P. Trigo, M. M. (2006) Pollen morphology of the Galapagos endemic genus Scalesia Arn. (Asteraceae). Noticias de Galápagos 64: 26-30.
- Lawesson, J.E. Adsersen, H. & Bentley, P. (1987) An updated and annotated check list of the vascular plants of the Galapagos islands. Rept. Bot. Inst., Univ. Aarhus 16: 1-74.
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- Robinson, B.L. (1902) Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapgaos Islands. Proc. Amer. Acad. 38(4): 78-270.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
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- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Scalesia aspera", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=339. Accessed 30 October 2026.