Barnadesioideae

Barnadesioideae
Chuquiraga oppositifolia of the subfamily Barnadesioideae growing in Argentina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Barnadesioideae
K.Bremer & R.K.Jansen
Tribe: Barnadesieae
D. Don
Genus

At least the following: Barnadesia
Chuquiraga
Dasyphyllum
Doniophyton
Huarpea
Schlechtendalia
Source: [1]

Barnadesioideae is a subfamily of the Asteraceae, or sunflower family, of flowering plants. It comprises a single tribe, the Barnadesieae D. Don. The subfamily is endemic to South America, and molecular evidence points to a basal position for this subfamily within the sunflower family.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Gustafsson, M. H. G., A. S. R. Pepper, V. A. Albert, and M. Kallersjo (2001). "Molecular phylogeny of the Barnadesioideae (Asteraceae)". Nordic J. Bot 21 (2): 149–160. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2001.tb01352.x. 
  2. ^ Urtubey, Estrella; Stuessy, TF (November 2001). "New Hypotheses of Phylogenetic Relationships in Barnadesioideae (Asteraceae) Based on Morphology". Taxon (International Association for Plant Taxonomy) 50 (4): 1043–1066. doi:10.2307/1224720. JSTOR 1224720. 
  3. ^ Ruth E. Timme, Jennifer V. Kuehl, Jeffrey L. Boore and Robert K. Jansen (2007). "A comparative analysis of the Lactuca and Helianthus (Asteraceae) plastid genomes: identification of divergent regions and categorization of shared repeats". American Journal of Botany 94 (3): 302–312. doi:10.3732/ajb.94.3.302. PMID 21636403. http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/94/3/302.