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Interesting Facts
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.
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Ecology:
A herb or subshrub
.[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
- 3 Shrubland
- 3.7 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Genus:
Aetheolaena
()
- Specific epithet:
pichinchensis
- (Cuatrec.) B.Nord.
- Botanical name: - Aetheolaena pichinchensis (Cuatrec.) B.Nord.
- Specific epithet:
pichinchensis
- (Cuatrec.) B.Nord.
- Genus:
Aetheolaena
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Culcitium Pichinchense • Culcitium pichinchense Cuatrec. • Lasiocephalus pichinchensis (Cuatrec.) Cuatrec.
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: Govaerts World Compositae Checklist
A-G,
IPNI, Tropicos. GCC LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:2B5543B5-69D0-4C25-9B55-1F8FD4AF8831
Last scrutiny: 10-Aug-09
Treated by some authors
under the genus Lasiocephalus. (Ref.
251816).
Similar Species
Members of the genus Aetheolaena
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Further Reading
- IUCN. 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 18 November 2003.
- Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endmicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
- Valencia, R., Pitman, N., Len-Ynez, S. and Jrgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endmicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, Quito.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- GCC: Global Compositae Checklist. Release date: November 18, 2009
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 23, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Montfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2003. Aetheolaena pichinchensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7150348
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-25600
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 996506-1
- IUCN ID: 189062
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1026715
Footnotes
- Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2003. Aetheolaena pichinchensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
