Overview
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Bois De Chenilles
Common Names in French:
Bois De Chenilles
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
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Ecology:
The species grows on exposed rocky cliffs
in mountainous areas. (Ref.
287869).
List of Habitats
:
- 6 Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks) [more info]
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
()
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Genus:
Monarrhenus
()
- Specific epithet:
salicifolius
- Lam.
- Botanical name: - Monarrhenus salicifolius Lam.
- Specific epithet:
salicifolius
- Lam.
- Genus:
Monarrhenus
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: Govaerts World Compositae Checklist
A-G,
IPNI. GCC LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:9179F4AE-716E-4BD8-AC9E-518D82217F2F
Last scrutiny: 15-Aug-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Monarrhenus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
M. salicifolius (Bois De Chenilles)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Bosser, J., Cadet, Th., Julien, H.R. and Marais, W. 1993. Flore des Mascareignes, 109 Composees. The Sugar Industry Research Institute, Mauritius, ORSTOM, Paris and RBG, Kew.
- Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Notes
Contributors
- Florens, D. (TPTNC) 2000. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Florens, D. 2000. Monarrhenus salicifolius. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
- GCC: Global Compositae Checklist. Release date: November 18, 2009
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- 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: 1
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-14552
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:233486-1
- IUCN ID: 224166
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1025729
Footnotes
- Florens, D. 2000. Monarrhenus salicifolius. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]
