Trichocline is a genus of South American plants in the tribe Mutisieae within the family Asteraceae. It includes twenty-three species native South America, which range from Bolivia and eastern Brazil to southern Argentina. The Australian species Trichocline spathulata was formerly included; it is now placed in the monotypic genus Amblysperma as A. spathulata.
Its closest relatives are Chaptalia, Gerbera, Leibnitzia, Perdicium, and Oreoseris. Together they form the Gerbera complex in the tribe Mutisieae.
Species
23 species are accepted.
Trichocline aurea (D.Don) Reiche – Chile
Trichocline auriculata (Wedd.) Hieron. – Argentina, Bolivia
Trichocline boecheri Cabrera – Argentina
Trichocline catharinensis Cabrera – Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina
Trichocline caulescens Phil. – Chile
Trichocline cineraria (D.Don) Hook. & Arn. – Chile, Argentina
Trichocline cisplatina E.Pasini & M.R.Ritter – Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay
Trichocline crispa Cabrera – Chile
Trichocline dealbata (Hook. & Arn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Griseb. – Chile, Argentina
Trichocline deserticola Zardini – Chile
Trichocline exscapa Griseb. – Argentina
Trichocline heterophylla (Spreng.) Less. – Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
Trichocline humilis Less. - Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
Trichocline incana (Lam.) Cass. – Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul
Trichocline linearifolia Malme – Paraná
Trichocline macrocephala Less. – Misiones, Paraná, Santa Catarina
Trichocline macrorhiza Cabrera – Jujuy
Trichocline maxima Less. – Brazil, Uruguay
Trichocline minuana E.Pasini – Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay
Trichocline plicata Hook. & Arn. – Argentina
Trichocline reptans (Wedd.) Hieron. – Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia
Trichocline sinuata (D.Don) Cabrera – Argentina
Trichocline speciosa Less. – Paraná, Argentina, Paraguay
see Actinoseris, Amblysperma, Chaptalia, Criscia Richterago, and Unxia