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 4,422 meters (0 to 14,508 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
()
- Genus:
Phagnalon
()
- Cassini, 1819
- Specific epithet:
rupestre
- (L.) DC.
- Botanical name: - Phagnalon rupestre (L.) DC.
- Specific epithet:
rupestre
- (L.) DC.
- Genus:
Phagnalon
(
- 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
, Govaerts
World Compositae Checklist
A-G, IPNI, Tropicos, Euro+Med. GCC LSID:
urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:21776283-2889-4694-8C68-1094B6C8C130
Last scrutiny: 15-Aug-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Phagnalon
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Further Reading
- A manual flora of Egypt / by Reno Muschler. With a preface by Paul Ascherson and Georg Schweinfurth. Berlin, R. Friedlaender, 1912. url p. 1261, p. 976, p. 977.
- Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 198, p. 221, p. 317, p. 35, p. 427.
- Journal of botany, British and foreign. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url , p. xxiv.
- Journal of the proceedings of the Linnean Society. Botany. 5 1861 London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts: ||Williams and Norgate, 1857-1864. url p. 31.
- Marcellia. New York [etc.]Pergamon Press [etc.] url p. 63.
- Memoirs of the American Entomological Society. Philadelphia, American Entomological Society, 1916- url p. 121, p. 142.
- Micro-Lepidoptera [six articles by Lord Walsingham] London, 1881-1907. url p. 919.
- Spicilegium florae Maroccanae / by John Ball. London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1878. url p. 498.
- Taxonomic literature: a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (TL2) Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, 1976-1988. url p. 229.
- The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 16 1878 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 498.
- The anthropology of Iraq. The Upper Euphrates / by Henry Field, Curator of Physical Anthropology. Chicago:Field Museum, 1940 url p. 182, p. 197.
- Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. London, The Society. url p. 516.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 5, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 16, 2008:
- GBIF-Spain, Jardín Botánico de Córdoba: Herbarium COA
- Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5932560
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-13066
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13809912
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:237593-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 880523
Footnotes
- Mean = 139.410 meters (457.382 feet), Standard Deviation = 308.040 based on 44,885 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
