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Gochnatioideae

The Gochnatioideae are a subfamily of the aster family, Asteraceae. It contains the single tribe Gochnatieae of six to ten genera, with a total of about 80 to 95 species. They are native to the Americas from the southern United States to Argentina, including the Caribbean, and Cuba in particular.

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Gochnatioideae
Gochnatia oligocephala
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Gochnatioideae
(Benth. & Hook.f.) Panero & V.A.Funk
Tribe: Gochnatieae
Panero & V.A.Funk
Genera1

The Gochnatioideae are a subfamily of the aster family, Asteraceae. It contains the single tribe Gochnatieae2 of six34 to ten genera,5 with a total of about 804 to 955 species. They are native to the Americas from the southern United States to Argentina, including the Caribbean, and Cuba in particular.6

These are trees, shrubs, subshrubs, and perennial herbs. They have alternately arranged leaves and some have basal rosettes. The inflorescence is a solitary flower head or a few or many. Some only have disc florets, and some also have ray florets. The heads are small, with just a few florets, or large, with hundreds. They are usually white to orange, but some species have pink or purple florets. The disc florets are tubular with deep lobes at the tips.6

Genera

Nine genera are currently accepted; ten if Pentaphorus is accepted as separate genus.5

References

References

  1. "Gochnatieae (Benth. & Hook.f.) Panero & V.A.Funk". Global Compositae Database. Compositae Working Group (CWG). Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  2. Panero, J. L. and V. A. Funk. (2008). The value of sampling anomalous taxa in phylogenetic studies: major clades of the Asteraceae revealed. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(2), 757-82.
  3. Tellería, M. C., et al. (2013). Pollen morphology and its taxonomic significance in the tribe Gochnatieae (Compositae, Gochnatioideae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 299(5), 935-48.
  4. Moreira-Muñoz, A. and M. Muñoz-Schick. (2007). Classification, diversity, and distribution of Chilean Asteraceae: implications for biogeography and conservation. Archived 2014-07-29 at the Wayback Machine Diversity and Distributions 13(6), 818-28.
  5. Morgan R. Gostel, Gisela Sancho, Nádia Roque, Mariano Donato, Vicki A. Funk, Phylogenomic loci define the generic boundaries of Gochnatieae and improve resolution at the species level in Moquiniastrum (Compositae), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 175, 2022, 107558, ISSN 1055-7903, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107558.
  6. Funk, V. A., et al. Classification of Compositae. Archived 2016-04-14 at the Wayback Machine In: Funk, V. A., et al (eds.) Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae. Vienna: IAPT. 2009. Pp. 171-89.
  7. Jose L. Panero "Generic Relationships in Gochnatioideae (Asteraceae) Including Tehuasca, a New Genus from Northeastern Mexico.," Lundellia, 22(1), 1-10, (9 December 2019)
  8. Roque, N. and Sancho, G. (2020), Vickia, a new genus of tribe Gochnatieae (Compositae). Taxon, 69: 668-678. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12283