Tageteae

Marigold Tribe

Tagetes patula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Asteroideae
Tribe:	Tageteae Takht.
Genera
See text.

Tageteae is a tribe of the plant family Asteraceae. It consists of approximately 216 species divided among 28 genera. All are found in the New World, with a center of diversity in the Mexican highlands. The type genus is Tagetes (marigolds).

Some authors include these plants within a more broadly defined tribe Heliantheae.^[1]

Genera

Adenophyllum Pers.
Bajacalia Loockerman, B.L.Turner & R.K.Jansen
Boeberastrum (A.Gray) Rydb.
Boeberoides (DC.) Strother
Chyrsactinia A.Gray
Clappia A.Gray
Comaclinium Scheidw. & Planch.
Coulterella Vasey & Rose
Dysodiopsis
Dyssodia Cav.
Gymnolaena (DC.) Rydb.
Haploesthes A.Gray
Harnackia
Hydrodyssodia
Hydropectis
Lescaillea

Leucactinia
Jamesianthus S.F.Blake & Sherff
Jaumea Pers.
Nicolletia A.Gray
Oxypappus Benth.
Pectis L.
Porophyllum Adans.
Pseudoclappia Rydb.
Sartwellia A.Gray
Schizotrichia
Strotheria
Tagetes L.
Thymophylla Lag.
Urbinella
Varilla A.Gray

References

↑ "187. Asteraceae". Flora of North America. Retrieved 2007-12-07.

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