Taxonavigation

Familia: Asteraceae
Subfamilia: Asteroideae
Tribus: Astereae
Subtribus: Asterinae
Genera: Arctogeron – Aster – Asterothamnus – Callistephus – Crinitaria – Galatella – Kemulariella – Psychrogeton – Rhinactinidia – Tripolium

Name

Asterinae Dumort., Fl. Belg. 66. (1827) (1827)
Note: A polyphyletic assemblage, for example there are isolated Asian elements such as Callistephus and the Galatella group that are clearly related to Bellidinae.

References

• Dumortier, B.C.J. 1827. Florula Belgica, opera majoris prodromus 66.
• Brouillet, L., Lowrey, T. K., Urbatsch, L. E., Wagstaff, S. J., Karaman-Castro, V., Sancho, G. & Semple, J. C. 2009. Phylogeny and evolution of the Astereae. In: V. A. Funk, A. Susanna, T. Stuessy & R. Bayer (eds), Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of the Compositae, pp. 449 – 489. IAPT, Vienna. ISBN 978-3-9501754-3-1 Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Li, W.P., Yang, F.S., Jivkova, T. & Yin, G.S. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships and generic delimitation of Eurasian Aster (Asteraceae: Astereae) inferred from ITS, ETS and trnL-F sequence data. Annals of Botany 109(7): 1341-1357. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs054 Reference page. 
• Panero, J.L. & Funk, V.A. 2008. The value of sampling anomalous taxa in phylogenetic studies: Major clades of the Asteraceae revisited. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(2): 757–782. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.02.011 Full article PDF Reference page. 

Vernacular names

For more multimedia, look at Asterinae on Wikimedia Commons.