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Cardueae Cassini, 1819 |
The Cynareae are a tribe of flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae. Most of them are commonly known as thistles3; four of the best known genera are Carduus,4 Cynara (containing the widely eaten artichoke), Cirsium4, and Onopordum4.
They are annual or perennial herbs, frequently thorny (leaves and involucre with thorns); sometimes they have laticifers or resins conduits. Almost 80 genera with 2500 species are assigned to this tribe,5 native of tempered regions of Europe and Asia (specially of the Mediterranean region and Minor Asia), some of Australia and tropical Africa; only three6 genera have native species of America.7
Taxonomy
Cardueae is a synonym for Cynareae,8 but the name Cynareae was published almost a decade earlier and so has precedence.
Some authors starting in 1977 have divided the plants traditionally held to be in this tribe into three tribes (Cynareae in the narrow sense, Carlineae, and Echinopeae). However, other authors have retained the traditional broader classification.8
References
- ^ Panero, JL; VA Funk (2002-12-30). "Toward a phylogenetic subfamilial classification for the Compositae (Asteraceae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (Biological Society of Washington) 115 (4): 909–922, http://www.mnh.si.edu/biodiversity/bdg/Panero&Funk2002.pdf. Retrieved on 12 August 2007.
- ^ Susanna, Alfonso. (2006). "THE CARDUEAE (COMPOSITAE) REVISITED: INSIGHTS FROM ITS, trnL-trnF, AND matK NUCLEAR AND CHLOROPLAST DNA ANALYSIS1, 2". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 93: 150. doi:.
- ^ "Cardueae (“thistles”)". BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ a b c "thistle". Merriam-Webster's online dictionary. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ Dittrich, 1977 The Biology and Chemistry of the Compositae 2:1017-1038
- ^ "Cirsium". Flora of North America.
- ^ Bremer 1994 Asteraceae: Cladistic and Classification [Tribe Carduae: 112-156]
- ^ a b "tribe Cynareae". Flora of North America. Retrieved on 2008-01-04.
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