Acantheae (Tribe)

Overview

The Tribe Acantheae is a member of the Subfamily Acanthoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Acantheae:

Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
        Infraphylum: Radiatopses Kenrick & Crane, 1997
        Class: Magnoliopsida Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
        Subclass: Asteridae Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Lamianae Takhtajan, 1967
        Order: Lamiales Bromhead, 1838
        Family: Acanthaceae (ah-kanth-AY-see-ee) A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
        Subfamily: Acanthoideae
        Tribe: Acantheae

The Tribe Acantheae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genus (4): Acanthus · Aphelandra · Blepharis · Crossandra
Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 682 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Acantheae.

Aphelandra is a genus of about 170 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas. [more]

Blepharis is a genus of in family Acanthaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]

At least 102 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Crossandra.

More info about the Genus Crossandra may be found here.

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