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.
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:
Carduoideae
()
- Tribe:
Cardueae
()
- Subtribe:
Carlininae
()
- Genus:
Atractylis
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Specific epithet:
serratuloides
- (Cass.) Sieber ex Cass.
- Botanical name: - Atractylis serratuloides (Cass.) Sieber ex Cass.
- Specific epithet:
serratuloides
- (Cass.) Sieber ex Cass.
- 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
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: African Flowering Plants
Database
, Govaerts
World Compositae Checklist
A-G, IPNI, Euro+Med, LCR Editor. GCC LSID:
urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:D4E4305C-3114-4016-A822-CEF267EA7646
Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Atractylis
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Further Reading
- A manual flora of Egypt / by Reno Muschler. With a preface by Paul Ascherson and Georg Schweinfurth. Berlin, R. Friedlaender, 1912. url p. 1025.
- Botanical features of the Algerian Sahara. Washington, D.C.Carnegie Institution of Washington1913 url p. 62.
- Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url p. 62.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 26, 2008:
- International Plant Genetic Resources Institute(IPGRI), The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources
- Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10521797
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-987
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:182966-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2104512
