Description
Family Compositae
The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Genus:
Adenostyles
()
- Specific epithet:
alliaria
- Alliaria
- Botanical name: - Adenostyles alliaria
- Specific epithet:
alliaria
- Alliaria
- Genus:
Adenostyles
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Adenostyles
There are approximately 54 species in this genus:
A. albida · A. albifrons · A. alliarae · A. alliareae · A. alliaria · A. alliariae · A. alliariae hybrida · A. alliariae subsp. hybrida · A. alliariae subsp. macrocephala · A. alliariae subsp. orientalis · A. alliariae var. orientalis · A. alpina (Adenostyle) · A. alpina alpina · A. alpina australis · A. alpina briquetii · A. alpina subsp. australis · A. alpina subsp. briquetii · A. alpina subsp. nebrodensis · A. australis · A. briquetii · A. calcarea · A. candidissima · A. crassifolia · A. dubia · A. eginensis · A. glabra · A. glabra subsp. briquetii · A. glabra subsp. nebrodensis · A. glabra var. australis · A. hirsuta · A. hybrida · A. intermedia · A. kerneri · A. leucophylla · A. macrocephala · A. macrophylla · A. mairei · A. nardosmia · A. nebrodensis · A. orientalis · A. petasites · A. platyphylloides · A. polyantha · A. pontica · A. pyrenaica · A. rhombifolia · A. rhombifolia platyphylloides · A. rhombifolia subsp. platyphylloides · A. similiflorus · A. stenotricha · A. tomentosa · A. villarsii · A. viridis · A. × canescens
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Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 11, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 11, 2007:
- GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
- , Vascular Plant Herbarium
Identifiers
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16456900
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2152739
