Cichorioideae

Cichorioideae

Cichorioideae

Cichorium intybus

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order: Asterales

Family: Asteraceae

Subfamily: Cichorioideae

Tribes

see text.

Cichorioideae is a subfamily of the Asteraceae (sunflower family) of flowering plants. Familiar members of the group include lettuce and dandelions. The subfamily as understood in 1998 turned out to be paraphyletic,^[1] so a number of tribes were moved to new subfamilies. The 2002 classification of Panero and Funk specifies the subfamily Cichorioideae to comprise the tribes Arctoteae, Vernonieae, Liabeae, Cichorieae, and Gundelleae.^[2] The genus Platycarpha is incertae sedis within Cichorioideae^[3]

References

^ Bayer, Rall J.; Julian R. Starr (April 1998). "Tribal phylogeny of the Asteraceae based on two non-coding chloroplast sequences, the trnL intron and trnL/trnF intergenic spacer". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85 (2): 242–256. doi:10.2307/2992008. Retrieved on 2008-02-24.
^ Panero, JL; VA Funk (2002-12-30). "Toward a phylogenetic subfamilial classification for the Compositae (Asteraceae)" (^{dead link} – ^{Scholar search}). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115 (4): 909–922. Biological Society of Washington. Retrieved on 2007-08-12.
^ UniProt. "Subfamily Cichorioideae" (HTML). Retrieved on 2008-06-30.

External links

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