Platycarpha
| Platycarpha | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Cichorioideae |
| Tribe: | Platycarpheae |
| Genus: | Platycarpha Lessing |
| Type species | |
| Platycarpha glomerata (Thunberg) A. P. de Candolle | |
| Species | |
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Platycarpha is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[1][2] Until 2009, it was considered to comprise three species, Platycarpha glomerata, Platycarpha carlinoides, and Platycarpha parvifolia, all from South Africa.[3] In that year, the latter two were segregated from Platycarpha to form the genus Platycarphella, leaving Platycarpha with only its type species, Platycarpha glomerata.[1]
The name Platycarpha is derived from two Greek words, platys "broad" and karphos "a chip of straw or wood, a scale, a dry stalk".[4] The name was first used by Christian Friedrich Lessing in 1831.[5] The type species is Platycarpha glomerata.[6] This species had been named Cynara glomerata by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1800, [7] and was moved to Platycarpha by A.P. de Candolle in 1836 in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[8]
The systematic position of Platycarpha has long been regarded with uncertainty. Most authors have placed it in the tribe Arctotideae [2] until molecular phylogenetic studies showed it to be closer to Vernonieae.[9] In 2009, the new tribe Platycarpheae was established for Platycarpha and Platycarphella.[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Funk, Vicki A.; Robinson, Harold E. (2009). "A new tribe Platycarpheae and a new genus Platycarphella in the Cichorioideae (Compositae or Asteraceae)". Compositae Newsletter 47: 24–27. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Per Ola Karis. 2007. "Arctotideae" pages 200-207. In: Klaus Kubitzki (series editor); Joachim W. Kadereit and Charles Jeffrey (volume editors). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume VIII. Springer-Verlag: Berlin; Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN 978-3-540-31050-1
- ↑ David J. Mabberley. 2008. Mabberley's Plant-Book third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4
- ↑ Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. volume III, page 2098. CRC Press: Baton Rouge, New York, London, Washington DC. ISBN 978-0-8493-2673-8 (vol. III). (see External links below).
- ↑ Christian Friedrich Lessing. 1831. "De Synanthereis. Dissertatis quarta, auctore Chr. Fr. Lessing" Linnaea 6:688. (see External links below).
- ↑ Platycarpha In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).
- ↑ Carl Peter Thunberg. 1800. Prodromus Plantarum Capensium volume 2: 141. (see External links below).
- ↑ Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. 1836. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5:71. (see External links below).
- ↑ Vicki A. Funk, Raymund Chan, Stirling C. Keeley. 2004. "Insights into the evolution of the tribe Arctoteae (Compositae: subfamily Cichorioideae s.s.) using trnL-F, ndhF, and ITS". Taxon 53(3):637-655.
- ↑ Vicki A. Funk, Alfonso Susanna, Tod F. Stuessy, and Randall J. Bayer. 2009. Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of the Compositae. IAPT (International Association for Plant Taxonomy). ISBN 978-3-9501754-3-1
External links
- Platycarpha At:Plants of southern Africa At: PlantZAfrica.com
- CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: M-Q At: Google Books
- Platycarpha In: Linnaea volume 6
- Platycarpha At:Index Nominum Genericorum At: References At: NMNH Department of Botany At: Research and Collections At: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- Cynara In: Prodromus Plantarum Capensium volume 2
- Platycarpha In: Prodr. (DC.) volume 5