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.
Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 185 meters (607 feet).[1]
Biome: Coastal.
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:
Carduoideae
()
- Tribe:
Cardueae
()
- Subtribe:
Carduinae
()
- Genus:
Galactites
()
- Moench, 1794, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
duriaei
- Spach ex Durieu
- Botanical name: - Galactites duriaei Spach ex Durieu
- Specific epithet:
duriaei
- Spach ex Durieu
- Genus:
Galactites
(
- Subtribe:
Carduinae
(
- Tribe:
Cardueae
(
- Subfamily:
Carduoideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: African Flowering Plants
Database
, Govaerts
World Compositae Checklist
A-G, IPNI, Tropicos, Euro+Med, LCR Editor.
GCC LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:21D0EC5A-5D2B-4277-9614-AF668EA07CFA
Last scrutiny: 18-Nov-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Galactites
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 31, 2008:
- GBIF-Spain, Jardín Botánico de Córdoba: Herbarium COA
- GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
- , Vascular Plant Herbarium
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5930170
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-107
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13543264
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:208401-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2154964
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 331.090 based on 23,605 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
