Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Arctic Daisy
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 Dendranthema
nial herbs, sometimes basally woody shrublets
. Leaves alternate, pinnately shallowly to deeply dissected
, lobed
or occasionally entire. Capitula radiate
, heterogamous, solitary, terminal
or few to many and laxly corymbose
. Involucre ± saucer-shaped
, 3-seriate, phyllaries imbricate, broadly membranous or dark brown margined
. Receptacle convex
to somewhat conical
, ± punctate-tuberculate, epaleate. Ray-florets uniseriate
, female, fertile
, with white, pink or yellowish ligules. Disc-florets bisexual
, yellow, with tubular-conical, glandular
, 5-lobed, unwinged corolla tube
. Anthers
lacking basal appendages
, with subtriangular
apical appendages. Cypselas homomorphic
, obconic-obovoid, 5-8-ribbed, thin-walled, usually with myxogenic cells
in rows
. Pappus absent.
Species 37, distributed mainly in China, Japan, Korea, Mangolia, Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, Central Asian States and East Europe. Represented in Pakistan by the following species, usually in cultivation but as escape
also.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Forb/herb
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
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: M; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
-
()
- 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:
Asteroideae
()
- Tribe:
Anthemideae
()
- Subtribe:
Chrysantheminae
()
- Genus:
Dendranthema
()
- Papala
- Specific epithet:
arcticum
- (Hultén) Heywood
- Subspecies:
polare
- Botanical name: - Dendranthema arcticum polare (Hultén) Heywood
- Subspecies:
polare
- Specific epithet:
arcticum
- (Hultén) Heywood
- Genus:
Dendranthema
(
- Subtribe:
Chrysantheminae
(
- Tribe:
Anthemideae
(
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Place of publication
: V. L. Komarov, Fl.
URSS 26:386. 1961
Name
verified on 27-Jun-2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last
updated: 30-Oct-2007
Similar Species
Members of the genus Dendranthema
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
D. arcticum (Arctic Daisy) · D. arcticum polare (Arctic Daisy) · D. cultivars (Striped Drummer) · D. grandiflorum (Florist's Daisy) · D. grandiflorum 'Shamrock' (Garden Mums) · D. indicum (Mother's Daisy) · D. x (Florist's Chrysanthemum) · D. X grandiflorum (Florist's Daisy) · D. x morifolium (Florist's Chrysanthemum) · D. zawadskii'Clara Curtis' (Clara Curtis Chrysanthemum) · D. 'Bolero' (Chrysanthemum) · D. 'Obession' (Chrysanthemum) · D. 'Samba' (Chrysanthemum)
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Further Reading
- Bremer, K. & C. J. Humphries. 1993. Generic monograph of the Asteraceae-Anthemideae. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. London, Bot. 23(2):114. [= Arctanthemum arcticum (L.) Tzvelev].
- Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16) [= Arctanthemum arcticum (L.) Tzvelev].
- Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. (F Japan) [accepts].
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR) [accepts].
- Soreng, R. J. & E. A. Cope. 1991. On the taxonomy of cultivated species of the Chrysanthemum genus-complex (Anthemideae; Compositae). Baileya 23:154. [accepts].
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur) [accepts].
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 26, 2008)
- USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8283715
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-523955
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13901692
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:877132-1
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 525036
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: LEAR29
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3728355
Footnotes
- "Dendranthema". in Flora of Pakistan V. 207 Page 49. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
