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.
Genus Anthemis
Annuals
(biennials) [perennials
, subshrubs
], mostly 5-90 cm (often aromatic
). Stems 1-5+, erect
to decumbent
, usually branched, strigillose
or strigoso-sericeous to villous
(hairs
medifixed
), glabrescent
[glabrous
or sericeous
to lanate
]. Leaves mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate
or sessile; blades
± obovate
to spatulate
, 1-3-pinnately lobed
, ultimate
margins
dentate
to lobed, faces
glabrous or strigillose to villous [glabrous or sericeous to lanate]. Heads radiate
[discoid
], borne singly or in lax
, corymbiform
arrays (peduncles sometimes clavate
and/or curved
in fruit). Involucres obconic to hemispheric
or broader, 5-13[-20] mm diam. Phyllaries persistent
, mostly 21-35+ in 3-5 series, distinct
, deltate to lanceolate, oblong
, or elliptic
, unequal, margins and apices (hyaline
and colorless or brownish [black]) scarious
. Receptacles hemispheric to narrowly conic, paleate (wholly or only distally) ; paleae ± flat, scarious to indurate
(subulate
or elliptic to obovate with mucronate
to acuminate-spinose tips
). Ray florets [0 or 2-]5-20[-30+], pistillate
and fertile
or styliferous and sterile
; corollas usually white, rarely yellow or pink, laminae
mostly oblong (tubes
sometimes hairy
). Disc florets (60-) 100-300+, bisexual
, fertile; corollas usually yellow, rarely pink, tubes ± cylindric
(usually proximally dilated
, ± spongy
in fruit, sometimes hairy, not saccate
), throats
funnelform
, lobes
5, ± triangular (abaxially minutely crested
). Cypselae obovoid
to obconic or turbinate
(circular or 4-angled in cross
section
), ribs
usually 9-10 (0) and smooth
or tuberculate
, faces glabrous (pericarps with myxogenic cells
) ; pappi 0 or coroniform
. x = 9.
Species 175: introduced
; Europe, sw Asia, n, e Africa; introduced in s Africa, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia.[1]
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
()
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
()
- Tribe:
Anthemideae
()
- Subtribe:
Anthemidinae
()
- Genus:
Anthemis
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Chamomile [Greek anthemon, flower]
- Specific epithet:
sosnovskyana
- Fedorov
- Botanical name: - Anthemis sosnovskyana Fedorov
- Specific epithet:
sosnovskyana
- Fedorov
- Genus:
Anthemis
(
- Subtribe:
Anthemidinae
(
- Tribe:
Anthemideae
(
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Anthemis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 26 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. altissima (Tall Camomile) · A. arvensis (Corn Chamomile) · A. arvensis L. var. arvensis L. (Corn Chamomile) · A. arvensis var. arvensis (Corn Chamomile) · A. austriaca (Austrian Chamomile) · A. biebersteiniana (Alpine Chamomile) · A. carpatica 'Karpatenschnee' (Snow Carpet Marguerite) · A. carpatica 'Snow Carpet' (Mountain Dog-Daisy) · A. cotula (Chamomile) · A. cotula angustata (Chamomile) · A. cotula lithuanica (Stinking Chamomile) · A. cretica (Cretian Mat Daisy) · A. oppositifolia (Oppositeleaf Spotflower) · A. punctata cupaniana (Chamomile) · A. sancti-johannis (St. Johns Chamomile Anthemis Sancti-Johannis) · A. secundiramea (Prostrate Chamomile) · A. tinctoria (Dyers Chamomile) · A. tinctoria fussii (Dyer´s Chamomile) · A. tinctoria parnassica (Dyer´s Chamomile) · A. tinctoria tinctoria (Golden Chamomile) · A. tinctoria 'Charme' (Dyers Chamomile) · A. tinctoria 'E.c. Buxton' (Dyers Chamomile Anthemis Tinctoria E.c. Buxton) · A. tinctoria 'Kelwayi' (Dyers Chamomile) · A. tinctoria 'Moonlight' (Dyers Chamomile) · A. tinctoria 'Sauce Hollandaise' (Dyers Chamomile) · A. tinctoria 'Susanna Mitchell' (Dyers Chamomile)
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. London: The Natural History Museum, c1993-2002. url p. 166.
- Oberprieler, C. 2001. Phylogenetic relationships in Anthemis L. (Compositae, Anthemideae) based on nrDNA ITS sequence variation. Taxon 50: 745-762.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9137957
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15092716
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3016303
Footnotes
- Linda E. Watson "Anthemis". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 14, 487, 537, 547, 548. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
