Cichorioideae

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Cichorioideae
Cichorium intybus
Cichorium intybus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Cichorioideae
Tribes

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Cichorioideae is a subfamily of the Asteraceae (sunflower family) of flowering plants. Familiar members of the group include lettuce and dandelions. The subfamily as it existed 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]

[edit] References

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ 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. 


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