Interesting Facts
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Description
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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
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- 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:
Carduoideae
()
- Tribe:
Cardueae
()
- Subtribe:
Carlininae
()
- Genus:
Atractylis
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Specific epithet:
mexicana
- L.f.
- Botanical name: - Atractylis mexicana L.f.
- Specific epithet:
mexicana
- L.f.
- Genus:
Atractylis
(
- Subtribe:
Carlininae
(
- Tribe:
Cardueae
(
- Subfamily:
Carduoideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Lycoseris Mexicana • Lycoseris mexicana (L. F.) Cass. • Onoseris mexicana (L. F.) Willd.
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Atractylis
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Further Reading
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- Descriptions of the new genera and species of the class Compositae belonging to the floras of Peru, Mexico, and Chile. London, Linnean Society, 1833 url p. 253.
- Flora of Peru. Ramón Ferreyra. 35 1993 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1995. url p. 100, p. 51.
- The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 860.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8964382
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15099138
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:182943-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3025681
