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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]
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:
parthenium
- Des Moul.
- Feverfew [Greek parthenos, virgin, or parthenion, ancient name of a plant; allusion unclear]
- Botanical name: - Dendranthema parthenium Des Moul.
- Specific epithet:
parthenium
- Des Moul.
- Feverfew [Greek parthenos, virgin, or parthenion, ancient name of a plant; allusion unclear]
- 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
(
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
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10530764
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15126022
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3054155
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]
