Overview
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:
Plucheeae
()
- Genus:
Sphaeranthus
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Specific epithet:
bullatus
- Mattf.
- Botanical name: - Sphaeranthus bullatus Mattf.
- Specific epithet:
bullatus
- Mattf.
- Genus:
Sphaeranthus
(
- Tribe:
Plucheeae
(
- 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
, IPNI,
Tropicos. GCC LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:60A88372-B57C-4607-BF7C-7CD0A2875922
Last scrutiny: 16-Aug-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Sphaeranthus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
S. africanus (East Indian Globe Thistle) · S. indicus (East Indian Globe Thistle)
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Further Reading
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
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 November 29, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8714364
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-10350
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15203747
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:250503-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 450227
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1035669
