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:
Asteroideae
()
- Tribe:
Astereae
()
- Subtribe:
Grangeinae
()
- Genus:
Dichrocephala
()
- L'Héritier ex A.P. de Candolle, 1833
- Specific epithet:
auriculata
- (Thunb.) Druce
- Botanical name: - Dichrocephala auriculata (Thunb.) Druce
- Specific epithet:
auriculata
- (Thunb.) Druce
- Genus:
Dichrocephala
(
- Subtribe:
Grangeinae
(
- Tribe:
Astereae
(
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Ethulia Auriculata
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: African Flowering Plants
Database
, Govaerts
World Compositae Checklist
A-G, IPNI, Tropicos, Vietnam Flora
. GCC
LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:8762846B-47AF-4BBC-8C99-3F26F7117151
Last scrutiny: 12-Aug-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Dichrocephala
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9469843
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-19664
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:201280-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2149423
