Perityleae is a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
of flowering plants in the
subfamily Asteroideae
Asteroideae is a subfamily of the plant family Asteraceae. It contains about 70% of the species of the family. It consists of several tribes, including Astereae, Calenduleae, Eupatorieae, Gnaphalieae, Heliantheae, Senecioneae and Tageteae. Aster ...
. The species of its genera are native exclusively to the
New World
The term ''New World'' is often used to mean the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas."America." ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: Oxford University Press, p. ...
.
This tribe is closely related to the
Eupatorieae
Eupatorieae is a tribe of over 2000D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-V ...
tribe. It was classified as a separate tribe following molecular studies of plastid
DNA sequences.
[Klaus Kubitzki, Joachim W. Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'']
Subtribes and genera
Perityleae subtribes and genera recognized by the Global Compositae Database as of April 2022:
*Subtribe
Galeaninae
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Galeana''
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Villanova''
*Subtribe
Lycapsinae
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Lycapsus''
*Subtribe
Peritylinae
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Amauria''
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Eutetras''
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Pericome''
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Perityle''
References
Asteraceae tribes
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