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[1]
(Thunberg) A. P. de Candolle

Platycarpha is a genus of South African plants dandelion subfamily within the daisy family.[1][2]

Recent studies have suggested splitting Platycarpha into two genera, Platycarpha and Platycarphella. Further work remains to be done to resolve this.[3][3][4][5]

The name Platycarpha is derived from two Greek words, platys "broad" and karphos "a chip of straw or wood, a scale, a dry stalk".[6] The name was first used by Christian Friedrich Lessing in 1831.[7] The type species is Platycarpha glomerata.[8] This species had been named Cynara glomerata by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1800,[9] and was moved to Platycarpha by A.P. de Candolle in 1836 in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[10]

The systematic position of Platycarpha has long been regarded with uncertainty. Most authors have placed it in the tribe Arctotideae [4] until molecular phylogenetic studies showed it to be closer to Vernonieae.[11] In 2009, the new tribe Platycarpheae was established for Platycarpha and Platycarphella.[12]

Species
  1. Platycarpha carlinoides Oliv. & Hiern - South Africa
  2. Platycarpha glomerata (Thunb.) Less. - South Africa
  3. Platycarpha parvifolia S.Moore - South Africa

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tropicos, Platycarpha Less.
  2. ↑ Lessing, Christian Friedrich. 1831. Linnaea 6: 688. in Latin
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 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
  5. ↑ David J. Mabberley. 2008. Mabberley's Plant-Book third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4
  6. ↑ 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).
  7. ↑ Christian Friedrich Lessing. 1831. "De Synanthereis. Dissertatis quarta, auctore Chr. Fr. Lessing" Linnaea 6:688. (see External links below).
  8. ↑ Platycarpha In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).
  9. ↑ Carl Peter Thunberg. 1800. Prodromus Plantarum Capensium volume 2: 141. (see External links below).
  10. ↑ Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. 1836. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5:71. (see External links below).
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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

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