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Robinsonia (plant)

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Robinsonia is a genus of plants in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family.^[2]^[3]

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]

^ ^a ^b ^c 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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Robinsonia is a genus of plants in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family.

Species

All the species are endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of the Republic of Chile. The genus is named for the fictional character Robinson Crusoe, purportedly shipwrecked in this chain of islands.