Perdicium

Perdicium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Mutisioideae
Tribe: Mutisieae[1]
Genus: Perdicium
L.
Type species
Perdicium capense
L.

Perdicium is a genus of African plants in the gerbera tribe within the daisy family.[2][3]

Species[1][4][5][6]

Several dozen species have at one time been considered members of Perdicium. Almost all of them are now regarded as better suited to other genera (Acourtia Ainsliaea Chaptalia Gerbera Haplocarpha Holocheilus Leibnitzia Leucheria Perezia Trixis). Only two remain:

  1. Perdicium capense L. - South Africa
  2. Perdicium leiocarpum DC. - South Africa

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1760. Plantae Rariores Africanae 22
  3. Tropicos, Perdicium L.
  4. The Plant List search for Perdicium
  5. Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).
  6. Hansen, H. V. (1985), A taxonomic revision of the genus Perdicium (Compositae -Mutisieae). Nordic Journal of Botany, 5: 543–546. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.1985.tb01691.x