Plectocephalus americanus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Euasterids II
Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Asteraceae
Subfamilia: Carduoideae
Tribus: Cardueae
Subtribus: Centaureinae
Genus: Plectocephalus
Species: P. americanus – P. cachinalensis – P. chilensis – P. dracaenoides – P. floccosus – P. rothrockii – P. tweediei – P. varians

Name

Plectocephalus D.Don, Brit. Fl. Gard. [Sweet] 4: ad t. 51. (1830)

  • Type species: Plectocephalus americanus (Nutt.) D.Don,

Synonyms

  • Homotypic
    • Centaurea sect. Plectocephalus (D.Don) DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 6: 575. (1837)
  • Heterotypic
    • Centaurodendron Johow, Fl. Juan Fernandez 63 (1896)

Note: This is a view of Plectocephalus s.l. sensu Hellwig (2004) and Hassler (2018) including Centaurodendron, but which is sometimes segregated into its own genus Sussanna et al., 2011 & Tropicos, 2018.

References

  • Don, D. in Sweet, R. 1830. The British flower garden: containing coloured figures & descriptions of the most ornamental & curious hardy herbaceous plants, ser. 2. 1: plate 51.
  • Johow, F. 1896. Estudios sobre la flora de las Islas de Juan Fernandez. 287 pp. Santiago de Chile, Imprenta Cervantes. BHL Reference page. : 63
  • eFloras 2008. Plectocephalus in Flora of North America . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  • Hassler, M. 2018. Plectocephalus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (2019). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi, J., Penev L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 May 10.
  • Hellwig, F.H. 2004. Centaureinae (Asteraceae) in the Mediterranean – history of ecogeographical radiation. Plant Systematics and Evolution 246(3–4): 137–162. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-004-0150-2 Reference page. 
  • International Plant Names Index. 2018. Plectocephalus. Published online. Accessed May 10 2018.
  • Susanna, A., Galbany-Casals, M., Romaschenko, K., Barres, L., Martín, J. & Garcia-Jacas, N. 2011. Lessons from Plectocephalus (Compositae, Cardueae-Centaureinae): ITS disorientation in annuals and Beringian dispersal as revealed by molecular analyses. Annals of Botany 108(2): 263–277. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr138 Reference page. 
  • Tropicos.org 2018. Plectocephalus . Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 May 10.
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