Coreopsideae

Coreopsideae
Cosmos bipinnatus field
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Supertribe: Helianthodae
H.Rob.
Tribe: Coreopsideae
(Less.) Lindl., 1829
Genera

See text.

Coreopsideae is a tribe of flowering plants belonging to the Asteroideae subfamily.[1]

Classification

This tribe includes genera like Cosmos and Dahlia.[2]

A similar group has been recognized since 1829, generally as part of the tribe Heliantheae (Cassini, 1819).[3] In the late 20th century, molecular studies caused a slightly redefined version of this group to be recognized as its own tribe, Coreopsideae.[3] The larger version of Heliantheae was split into tribes including Bahieae, Chaenactideae, Coreopsideae, Helenieae and, finally, Heliantheae (sensu stricto).[4]

The tribe is characterized by shiny green bracts at the base of the flower head in two rows: an inner row of tightly spaced bracts and an outer row of a smaller number pointing downward.[5]

Genera

References

  1. ↑ Asteroideae - Taxonomy
  2. ↑ Pyrrolizidine alkaloids from Neurolaena lobata
  3. 1 2 Ryding, Olof; Bremer, Kare (1992), "Phylogeny, Distribution, and Classification of the Coreopsideae (Asteraceae)", Systematic Botany 17 (4): 649–659, doi:10.2307/2419733, JSTOR 2419733
  4. ↑ Klaus Kubitzki, Joachim W. Kadereit, Charles Jeffrey; The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants
  5. ↑ Niehaus, Theodore F.; Ripper, Charles L. (1976), Pacific States Wildflowers, New York: Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-395-91095-1

Bibliography

External links

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