High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pappobolus is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It includes 38 species of shrubs and small trees that occur in the Andes Mountain region of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru . It is distinguished from closely related genera by its combination of shrubby habit and usually caducous pappus. Within the genus there is considerable variation in the pappus, a structure that has traditionally been considered a key to defining genera in Asteraceae, and this led to earlier confusion in defining the genus. Most of the species of the genus were originally described as members of Helianthus, based on having a pappus of two caducous awns. When it was recognized that they were not part of the exclusively North American Helianthus, they were transferred to a genus called Helianthopsis . The prominent synantherologist S. F. Blake, however, much earlier named the genus Pappobolus based on species that have a pappus of numerous caducous awns . It...

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