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 108 meters (0 to 354 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:
Cichorioideae
()
- Tribe:
Vernonieae
()
- Subtribe:
Vernoniinae
()
- Genus:
Vernonanthura
()
- H. Robinson
- Specific epithet:
montevidensis
- (Spreng.) H.Rob.
- Botanical name: - Vernonanthura montevidensis (Spreng.) H.Rob.
- Specific epithet:
montevidensis
- (Spreng.) H.Rob.
- Genus:
Vernonanthura
(
- Subtribe:
Vernoniinae
(
- Tribe:
Vernonieae
(
- Subfamily:
Cichorioideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Baccharis montevidensis Spreng. • Cacalia Montevidensis • Cacalia montevidensis (Spreng.) Kuntze
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: IPNI, Tropicos. GCC LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:A78AFBCA-69FB-4B6E-9667-12773A0B2953
Last scrutiny: 21-Aug-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Vernonanthura
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Further Reading
- Compositae newsletter. Columbus, Ohio: Dept. of Botany, Ohio State University, 1975- url p. 93.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 68, p. 72.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 26, 2008:
- GBIF-Spain: Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas: FCO
- Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5894260
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-7203
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:969211-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1054877
Footnotes
- Mean = -476.400 meters (-1,562.992 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,275.020 based on 5 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
