Malperia
genus of plants
Malperia is a North American plant genus in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae.
There is only one known species, Malperia tenuis. This plant's common name is brown turbans or brownturbans. It is a rare plant native to the Sonoran Desert of the U.S. state of California (Imperial and San Diego Counties) and northwestern Mexico (Sonora, Baja California, Baja California Sur). This is a small annual with white or pinkish bell-shaped flowers.
The name Malperia is based on an anagram of the last name of botanist Edward Palmer.
“Malperia” enters the record as genus of plants. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Malperia, genus and plants can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Malperia” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Malperia, genus and plants provides the most credible route into that argument.
Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16089880. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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