Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Poreleaf Dogweed
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:
Hinterhuberinae
()
- Genus:
Pteronia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1763, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
porophyllum
- Cav.
- [Greek poros, hole, and phyllon, leaf, alluding to gland-dotted leaf blades]
- Botanical name: - Pteronia porophyllum Cav.
- Specific epithet:
porophyllum
- Cav.
- [Greek poros, hole, and phyllon, leaf, alluding to gland-dotted leaf blades]
- Genus:
Pteronia
(
- Subtribe:
Hinterhuberinae
(
- Tribe:
Astereae
(
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Adenophyllum porophyllum (Cav.) Hemsl. • Dyssodia porophyllum (Cav.) Cav. • Lebetina Porophyllum • Lebetina porophyllum (Cav.) A. Nelson • Lebetina porophyllum (Cav.) Rydb.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Pteronia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
P. porophyllum (Poreleaf Dogweed)
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Further Reading
- Comprehensive index to the Flora of Guatemala / Terua P. Williams. 24 1977 [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, 1977. url p. 204.
- Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 16 1987 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 161, p. 413, p. 414.
- Flora of Guatemala / Dorothy L. Nash, Louis O. Williams; genera contributed by Kenneth M. Becker. .. [et al.]. 24 1976 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1976. url p. 366.
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: 9229462
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15187698
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:240298-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3123285
