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:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Cichorioideae
()
- Tribe:
Arctotideae
()
- Subtribe:
Gorteriinae
()
- Genus:
Berkheya
()
- F. Ehrhart, 1784, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
echinacea
- (Harv.) O.Hoffm. ex Burtt Davy
- Purple coneflower [Latin, echinus, sea urchin, alluding to spiny tips of receptacular paleae]
- Botanical name: - Berkheya echinacea (Harv.) O.Hoffm. ex Burtt Davy
- Specific epithet:
echinacea
- (Harv.) O.Hoffm. ex Burtt Davy
- Purple coneflower [Latin, echinus, sea urchin, alluding to spiny tips of receptacular paleae]
- Genus:
Berkheya
(
- Subtribe:
Gorteriinae
(
- Tribe:
Arctotideae
(
- Subfamily:
Cichorioideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Crocodilodes Echinaceum • Crocodilodes echinaceum (Harv.) Kuntze • Stobaea Echinacea
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: African Flowering Plants
Database
, SANBI,
Govaerts World Compositae Checklist
A-G, IPNI, Tropicos. GCC LSID:
urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:44AE276B-C4A4-4442-A7BE-AC1010452F5D
Last scrutiny: 04-Sep-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Berkheya
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
B. heterophylla (Prickly Gousblom) · B. purpurea 'Zulu Warrior' (Silver Spike)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 26, 2008:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9062181
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-5619
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:184547-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2011519
