Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Florist's Daisy, Florist's Chrysanthemum, Mum
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: Subshrub , Shrub
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:
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:
Chrysantheminae
()
- Genus:
Dendranthema
()
- (DC.) Des Moul., Acta Soc. Linn. Bordeaux. 20: 561. 1860
- Papala
- Specific epithet:
grandiflorum
- (Ramat.) Kitam.
- Botanical name: - Dendranthema grandiflorum (Ramat.) Kitam.
- Specific epithet:
grandiflorum
- (Ramat.) Kitam.
- Genus:
Dendranthema
(
- Subtribe:
Chrysantheminae
(
- Tribe:
Anthemideae
(
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat. • Dendranthema morifolium (Ramat.) Tzvelev
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: CONABIO, New Zealand Plant Name Database,
Flora
Malesiana, Govaerts World Compositae Checklist
A-G, IPNI, MesoAmericana,
Tropicos, Colombia. GCC LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:7738F0EA-1C70-4E93-AFAC-35749E78DFC4
Last scrutiny: 12-Aug-09
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. [accepts].
- Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16) [accepts].
- Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard) [accepts].
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US) [accepts].
- McGuffin, M. et al., eds. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2) [accepts].
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 February 02, 2008:
- Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- National Institute of Genetics, ROIS, Herbarium Specimens of Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo Pref., Japan
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3879180
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-19760
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13735648
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:201157-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 400932
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 565127
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: DEMO
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 28583
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]
