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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
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Ecology:
No habitat
details available. Altitude
of ca.
700 m
.
Balfour (Bayley Balfour 1888) noted that his new species was
similar to Psiadia arabica, a widespread species on the
Arabian mainland, but differed in the absence of sticky glandular
hairs
. No specimens have been traced and the identity and status
of this species remains a mystery.[1].
List of Habitats:
- 18 Unknown [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
()
- 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:
Baccharidinae
()
- Genus:
Psiadia
()
- N.J. Jacquin ex Willdenow, 1803
- Specific epithet:
schweinfurthii
- Balf.f.
- Botanical name: - Psiadia schweinfurthii Balf.f.
- Specific epithet:
schweinfurthii
- Balf.f.
- Genus:
Psiadia
(
- Subtribe:
Baccharidinae
(
- Tribe:
Astereae
(
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Psiadia
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Further Reading
- Bayley Balfour, I. (1888). Botany of Socotra. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 31: 1-446.
- IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 22, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Miller, A. 2004. Psiadia schweinfurthii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5987782
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15187177
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:239948-1
- IUCN ID: 237483
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1027971
Footnotes
- Miller, A. 2004. Psiadia schweinfurthii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]
