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 at an altitude of 0 to 3,012 meters (0 to 9,882 feet).[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:
Gnaphalieae
()
- Subtribe:
Relhaniinae
()
- Genus:
Metalasia
()
- R. Brown, 1817
- Specific epithet:
densa
- (Lam.) P.O.Karis
- Botanical name: - Metalasia densa (Lam.) P.O.Karis
- Specific epithet:
densa
- (Lam.) P.O.Karis
- Genus:
Metalasia
(
- Subtribe:
Relhaniinae
(
- Tribe:
Gnaphalieae
(
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- 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
, SANBI,
Govaerts World Compositae Checklist
A-G, IPNI, Tropicos. GCC LSID:
urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:3A6B8EB4-A0EE-431B-8A1B-EBEC4F9F4637
Last scrutiny: 15-Aug-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Metalasia
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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.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 15, 2008:
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5960433
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-14822
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:947295-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2073474
Footnotes
- Mean = 707.530 meters (2,321.293 feet), Standard Deviation = 714.900 based on 17 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
