Chionolaena is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1836. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 397 in LatinTropicos, Chionolaena DC. It is native to tropical and subtropical regions in the Americas, with species occurring discontinuously from central Mexico to southern Brazil.Freire, S. E. (1993). A revision of Chionolaena (Compositae, Gnaphalieae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 397-438. About half occur in southeastern Brazil.Loeuille, B., et al. (2011). Four new species of Chionolaena (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) from south-eastern Brazil. Kew Bulletin 66(2), 263-72.
Plants in this genus are small, woody shrubs and subshrubs. They have leaves with rolled edges, phyllaries with white to opaque tips, and staminate central florets. The plants grow in high-elevation habitat types.
SpeciesChionolaena. The Plant List.
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