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:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Genus:
Spilanthes
()
- N.J. Jacquin, 1760
- Specific epithet:
callimorpha
- A.H.Moore
- Botanical name: - Spilanthes callimorpha A.H.Moore
- Specific epithet:
callimorpha
- A.H.Moore
- Genus:
Spilanthes
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: IPNI, Flora
of China Checklist
, Tropicos,
Vietnam Flora. GCC LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:0A6B3C88-7FDE-4A06-BA30-A81DEB6E195B
Last scrutiny: 31-Oct-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Spilanthes
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
S. acmella (Para Cress) · S. oleracea (Eyeball Plant) · S. oleracea 'Peek-A-Boo' (Eyeball Plant) · S. oppositifolia (Oppositeleaf Spotflower) · S. urens (Pigeoncoop)
More Info
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Further Reading
- The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 3205.
Notes
Contributors
- GCC: Global Compositae Checklist. Release date: November 18, 2009
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3447395
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-3030
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:250769-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1054153
